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Criminological Explanations for Police Officer Brutality and Criminality
In simplest terms, police deviance can be defined as disregarding agency policy, rules and regulations, societal expectations, and/or criminal law....
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Violent Crime in Finland During the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic
This chapter explores if and how the Covid-19 pandemic influenced the patterns of violent crime in Finland. We focus on recorded violent crime in...
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SAVRY Predictive Validity of Mississippi Justice-Involved Youth Recidivism: A Latent Variable Approach
Recidivism, and its contributing factors, remains a primary concern among juvenile justice practitioners. The literature has identified numerous...
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Deaths among adults under supervision of the England and Wales’ probation services: variation in individual and criminal justice-related factors by cause of death
BackgroundThe mortality rate among people under probation supervision in the community is greater than that among incarcerated people and that among...
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Valid for Who? A Preliminary Investigation of the Validity of Two Sexual Victimization Questionnaires in Men and Sexual Minorities
The #MeToo movement illuminated vast numbers of people who experienced sexual violence, but the exact scope and impact, especially among...
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Instruments of Colonial Administration and White Saviorism: The Past and Present of Public Health
Public health’s origins are inextricably linked to the field of hygiene and tropical medicine, and its role as a tool of imperialist expansion and...
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Analyzing the NIBRS Data: the Impact of the Number of Records Used per Segment
In an effort to upgrade and improve criminal justice statistics, the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) program is currently in the process of...
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The effectiveness of parenting program components on disruptive and delinquent behaviors during early and middle childhood: a component network meta-analysis
ObjectivesThe present study tested the efficacy of parenting program components in reducing disruptive or delinquent child behaviors at first...
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The Measurement Lens Matters: Considering the Sensitivity of the Gang Effect to Coding Across Samples
It is well established that gang membership is associated with an increase in deviant behavior. This “gang effect” is established with a binary...
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Multi Perspectives on Rape
This chapter introduces the concept of voice as central to explaining the experiences of a range of people caught up in the aftermath of a rape....
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Story-Lines of Evidence-Based Policing
Research findings are presented from detailed study of the texts produced through the development of evidence-based policing (‘EBP’) discourse. The...
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Beyond “pains” and “gains”: untangling the health consequences of probation
BackgroundResearch on the health consequences of criminal legal system contact has increasingly looked beyond imprisonment to understand how more...
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Does Fear of Crime Moderate the Relationship Between Low Self-Control and Victimization? An Empirical Study
Taking into consideration the framework of the general theory of crime, research has been exploring the role of low self-control in the explanation...
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Street Light Outages, Public Safety and Crime Attraction
ObjectivesFor more than one hundred years, street lighting has been one of the most ubiquitous capital investments in public safety. Prior research...
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Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Offending
International studies have consistently reported disproportionately higher rates of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) among youth and...
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Measuring Harm with Crime Harm Indices
Analysing crime problems commonly involves counting crimes using records from police databases. But these crime counts weight all crimes equally, not...
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Bias and Discrimination in the Penal System
Governments in the 2015–2020 period accepted the need to reduce bias and discrimination in the penal system on the basis of race and being female,...
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Is it Black and White? Testing racial framing effects of public reactions to newspaper vignettes of fatal officer-involved shootings
ObjectivesTo investigate how race shapes public perceptions of a fatal officer-involved shooting of an armed male citizen depicted in a scenario...
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Electronic-Filing [Tax] Fraud in South Africa: Perceptive and Trends
This chapter compares existing perceptives and trends on investigations and prosecutions of electronic-Filing [e-Filling] (Tax) fraud in the...