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The Role of Intuition in Expressing Support for Harsh Criminal Justice Policy
Despite being largely ineffective in producing long-term reductions in crime, harsh criminal justice policies receive continuing high levels of...
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Punitiveness toward social distancing deviance in the COVID-19 pandemic: Findings from two national experiments
ObjectiveThis study sought to understand how the public perceived new offenses in a time of public health crisis—social distancing deviance in the...
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Should police officers who use force against peaceful protesters be punished? A national experiment
ObjectivesIn a period of mass protest, police use of force against protesters regularly makes headlines across the country. Our study contributes to...
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The Art of Repair: Bridging Artistic and Restorative Responses to Environmental Harm and Ecocide
In this chapter, the authors, who are members of a multidisciplinary collective of artists, activists, social scientists, and legal practitioners,...
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Moral Case Deliberation in Dutch Prisons: Experienced Outcomes and the Moral Learning of Prison Staff
We present a study about an ethics support instrument, Moral Case Deliberation (MCD), which is used to support and further professionalize Dutch...
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Measurement of public opinions on security: the case from Malaysia
The measurement of security perception is necessary as one of the tools to assess the effectiveness of security policies and enforcement in a...
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Time for the Tail to Wag the Dog? America Can Still “Hold These Truths to Be Self Evident,” but Police Must Take the Lead
2020 was a tumultuous year for policing in America, punctuating an uninterrupted history of tension that pre-dates the nation. Even as initial...
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Faith in Trump and the willingness to punish white-collar crime: Chinese Americans as an out-group
ObjectivesThe first goal of the study was to investigate the willingness of former President Trump’s supporters to punish a particular form of...
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The Death Penalty and Democracy
Many people in Japan argue that for abolition or significant death penalty reform to occur, public discussion (giron) must first change public...
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What’s Wrong with Penal Populism? Politics, the Public, and Criminological Expertise
This article discusses “penal populism” and its conflict with criminological expertise. It considers the proper balance between professional...
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Applying RNR Principles to Effectively Treat People Who Have Committed a Sexual Offence
Many advances have led to progress in the field of assessment and treatment of people who have committed a sexual offence (PCSO). A significant...
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Working with an Example of the Body: Legal Thinking as Method in Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies
In this account of a hypothetical book chapter on ‘the body’, I describe how I would devise a chapter using the technique of writing through a single...
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Ransomware and the Robin Hood effect?: Experimental evidence on Americans’ willingness to support cyber-extortion
ObjectivesRansomware attacks have become a critical security threat worldwide. However, existing research on ransomware has largely ignored public...
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Whiteness in Nursing and Midwifery in Australia
This chapter explores the concept of Whiteness in hel** professions from the perspective of Australian nurses and midwives. The history of nursing...
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The corporate legal profession’s role in global corruption: obligations and opportunities for contributing to collective action
Key corruption issues, like lack of transparency in beneficial ownership and money laundering, are inherently transnational. They are facilitated by...
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Theoretical Debates on Interventions and Multilateral Peace-Building Interventions
This chapter explores extant theory and literature in relation to conflict, violence, and peace-building theory with a focus on intervention theory....
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The Brain of Dexter Morgan: the Science of Psychopathy in Showtime’s Season 8 of Dexter
This article identifies and discusses on the ways in which biological influences to psychopathy are thematically portrayed in the eighth season of Dexter...
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Motivation for Segregation
This chapter foregrounds the importance of motivation for seeking out solitary confinement in a Category-A prison. The argument involves a detailed...
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Ludic Negation: Thrasher's The Gang and the Creative Foundations of Gang Sociality
In the following essay, I describe how one of the most cited but least analyzed texts in gang studies, Frederic Thrasher's The Gang (1927), has...
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Support for the Death Penalty in Taiwan?: a Study of Value Conflict and Ambivalence
While a substantial number of studies have examined public opinion on the death penalty in the USA, and more recently parts of Asia, including China,...