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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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‘It could have been us’. Peer responses to money-laundering violations in the Dutch banking industry
Much literature has focused on societal responses to corporate scandals, either by authorities or the public. However, there is little research on...
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A Criminology of Dis/Obedience?
The increasing criminalisation of solidarity and human rights and earth defenders, and the deep polarisation around and the policing of the pandemic,...
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From Exceptionalism to Non-conformity: Pandemic Disobedience, Collective Irrationality, and Distributive Justice in India
This paper deploys the containment principle by Della Croce and Nicole-Berva (2021) to adjudicate COVID-19 non-conformity in India. The paper argues...
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Demoralizing Internet Contention: Affective Publics and Emotional Mobilization on China’s Social Media During the Covid-19 Pandemic
The Chinese government’s affective mobilization and the vulnerability of affective publics raise the concerns about the demise of online activism....
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Institutional Theory Perspectives
This chapter examines institutional theory, with the concept utilized to explain how businesses respond to pressure and crisis. Institutional theory...
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Stigma
Stigma, as we have come to define it today, was officially launched as a sociological concept by Erving Goffman over 60 years ago. In his book,...
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Fake Vaccine Certificates as Tickets to Deviant Freedom and Certainty: A Critical Analysis of Media Discourses
Falsified COVID-19 vaccination certificates, or passes, have become both a tool for overcoming obstacles and a symbol of deviant resistance. Similar...
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Police Stress, Mental Health, and Resiliency during the COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic created social upheaval and altered norms for all members of society, but its effects on first responders have been...
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Exploring the Immediate Effects of COVID-19 Containment Policies on Crime: an Empirical Analysis of the Short-Term Aftermath in Los Angeles
This work investigates whether and how COVID-19 containment policies had an immediate impact on crime trends in Los Angeles. The analysis is...
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Moving Beyond Abstracted Empiricism: Pursuing New Sociological Directions in Theorizing Male-to-Female Sexual Assault on University/College Campuses
The social scientific study of sexual assault on North American university/college campuses started in 1957 with a path-breaking survey conducted by...
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Citizen Compliance with Pandemic Rules in China: Exploring the Effects of Emotional States, Peer Influence, and Policing
In December 2019, the SARS-CoV-2 virus was first detected in Wuhan, China. Soon after, China became the first country in the world to enforce strict...
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It’s F**ing Chaos: COVID-19’s Impact on Juvenile Delinquency and Juvenile Justice
An early examination of the impact of COVID-19 on juvenile delinquency and juvenile justice in America, this review provides initial scholarship to...
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How to Analyze Organizational Crime – Theory, Concepts, and Methods
When we talk about rule violations in organizations, offenses often come up in which employees have faked invoices or implemented fraudulent plots to...
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Fieldwork Experiences Researching Cybercriminals
Cybercriminals are an elusive population to study. This makes social research with cybercriminals as valuable as it is scarce. To stimulate research...
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Ontological Shift in Classical Criminology: Engagement with the New Sciences
Advocated is an engagement with the new sciences (quantum mechanics, holography) that challenge Newtonian ontologies. Alternative concepts are...
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Suicide Attempt and “Social Suffering”: Disrupting Dangerous Binary Discourse and Fostering Kinship between the Mental Health and Legal Systems in Ghana
The increase in the trends of the repealing of anti-suicide laws especially, in the High Income Countries, is largely due to the growth of evidence...
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Violence and the Police
The tasks and types of work performed by the police are legion; theoretical approaches to explaining police behavior have often either stumbled in...
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In-your-face Watergate: neutralizing government lawbreaking and the war against white-collar crime
Ample official evidence exists that the Trump administration was the most corrupt in modern American history. Donald Trump’s overall pattern of...