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Morality, Self-control, and Perception of the Police Among Chinese Inmates
This study contributes to the scholarship on perception of the police by testing a theoretical interaction between morality and self-control,...
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‘Ganging’ in the Twenty-First Century
This chapter begins by presenting to the reader a review of the literature around defining ‘the Gang’, and then goes on to present literature reviews...
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The Kids are Alright: Making a Case for Abolition of the Juvenile Justice System
When considering abolition of the criminal justice system, there is no greater or more impactful relevance than for juveniles that find themselves...
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The Great Policy Gap: Toward More Proactive Sex Offending Research
Sexual offending is a complex, multidimensional phenomenon. It encompasses a wide range of manifestations that can carry extremely harmful...
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Comparing the Implementation of Restorative Justice in the Inquisitorial System of China with the Adversarial Tradition in Hong Kong
This chapter compares the use of restorative justice processes in China and Hong Kong, the latter having a post-colonial era of adversarial justice...
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The Long-Term Incarceration Consequences of Coming-of-Age in a Crime Boom
ObjectivesWe examine the relationship between incarceration rates individuals experience in their thirties and the crime conditions they experienced...
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The Gender Gap in Sex Offender Punishment
ObjectivesThis paper tests theoretical arguments that suggest court actors hold gendered views of sex offenders that result in a gender gap in sex...
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Examining the Within-Individual Effect of Delinquency on Psychosocial Maturity in Mid-adolescence
Extant literature examining the impact of psychosocial maturity on offending finds that diminished psychosocial maturity is related to increases in...
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Responding to Sexual Violence, Protecting Survivors and Ending Impunity in Ghana
Violence against women is debilitating and destructive, and is an impediment to the enjoyment of the human rights and fundamental freedoms of...
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Incarceration and Generation: Map** a Conceptual, Theoretical and Empirical Field of Research
This chapter presents the state of the art in terms of the intersections between incarceration and generations. We start by exploring the conceptual...
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The Constructs of Antisocial Behavior and Crime: A Measurement View
Behavioral scientists visited and revisited the measurement country of antisocial behavior and crime during the last 200 years. The Montréal Two...
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Victim-Initiated Restorative Justice
Restorative Justice (RJ) theory and corresponding practices have been promoted by transnational organizations and spread to many countries throughout...
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Conducting Ethical Research with Online Populations in the United States
The adaptable nature of the Internet to accommodate new behavior lends itself to the need for ethical practices to be flexible. However, current...
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What Are We Talking about When We Talk about Privatization? A Qualitative Assessment of Privatized Corrections
Research on privatized corrections focuses primarily on for-profit prisons and tends to conceptualize correctional services as being strictly...
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Youth
This chapter focuses on young people, as social discourse has blamed them for the societal breakdown and the rise in crime in Japan. Attention to...
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Moral Disengagement and Gangs
Raised levels of moral disengagement, the process of disengaging moral reasoning from one’s conduct, have been shown to facilitate antisocial...
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Alternatives to Arrest
ArrestArrest has several substantial direct and collateral consequences for individuals and communities. Given these costs, it is important to...
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Investigating the Assignment of Probation Conditions: Heterogeneity and the Role of Race and Ethnicity
ObjectivesExplore the typical “packages” of probation conditions and assess general and interactive racial and ethnic disparities in assignment to...
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A Police Partnership Targeting Truancy: Study Protocol for a Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial
Research QuestionHow can an Australian police agency best test its role in a truancy prevention programme that can help to prevent crime?
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Discussion
One of the challenges of writing this book has been in pulling together and making sense of many disparate strands of theory and data from across the...