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Desistance from Crime of Young Offenders in Argentina: A Qualitative Study
The present study describes the processes of change that are associated with individual transformations that lead youth offenders in Argentina to...
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Understanding and Preventing Recidivism of Young Offenders in Argentina
This book aims to advance knowledge about the recidivism of young offenders. It reviews knowledge about risk factors for recidivism and about...
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A Social Network Analysis of Chronic Violent Offenders
Research indicates that a majority of serious crime events are committed by a small proportion of repeat offenders. Many chronic offenders...
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The Compounding Effect: How Co-Offending Exacerbates the Harm Caused by Violent Offenders
To what extent do violent offenders cause harm to victims when they act independently versus when they collaborate with others? Currently, it remains...
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Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Among Prolific Young Robbery Offenders in London: Targeting Treatment for Desistance?
Research QuestionHow prevalent are various types of adverse childhood experiences among prolific young robbery offenders in London, with what...
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An Offenders-Offenses Shared Component Spatial Model for Identifying Shared and Specific Hotspots of Offenders and Offenses: A Case Study of Juvenile Delinquents and Violent Crimes in the Greater Toronto Area
ObjectivesWe attempted to apply the Bayesian shared component spatial modeling (SCSM) for the identification of hotspots from two (offenders and...
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Treatment of Juvenile Offenders: Diversion and Formal Processing
In this chapter, various means used to process juvenile offenders are considered. The juvenile court was created with the specific philosophy of...
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Sometimes they Come Back: Recidivism and the Adult Imprisonment of Formerly Incarcerated Serious And Violent Juvenile Offenders
This study examines the adult imprisonment outcomes of a cohort of serious and violent juvenile offenders released from Texas state juvenile...
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Late-bloomers Among U.S. Offenders: A Test Using a 30-Year Longitudinal Study
Late-blooming offending is a young but fast-growing area in offending trajectory research. Since the formulation of this theory by Thornberry and...
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Internal Offenders
Internal white-collar offenderswhite-collar offendersinternal are individualsinternal offenders who have legitimate access to premises andsystems...
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Homicide and Criminal Maturity of Juvenile Offenders: A Critical Review
In 2012, the United States Supreme Court struck down existing legislative statutes mandating life without parole sentencing of convicted homicide...
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Future Perspectives on Counseling and Treatment of Criminal and Delinquent Offenders
The field of corrections does not exist in a vacuum. Corrections is only one component of the criminal justice system, and what happens in the law...
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Sentencing young adults with juvenile sanctions in The Netherlands: increasing risk or no differences on the chance of recidivism
ObjectivesIn the Netherlands, adolescent criminal law makes it is possible to sentence young adult offenders with juvenile sanctions. This study...
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Profiling of Potential Offenders
This chapter focuses on the profiling of potential offenders in consideration of direct preventive work against wrongdoing. Offering a structural...
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Crime, Offenders, and Victims
In this chapter, we discuss examples of crime trends in areas on rural-urban continuum in several countries, illustrating the difficulties and...
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Can Persistent Offenders Help Us Understand Desistance from Crime?
There is abundant evidence that desistance from crime is a process rather than an event and that it is often linked to specific life events (e.g.,...
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Challenging Historical Populism—Children First, Offenders Second: From Concept to Policy
This chapter focuses on the genesis, development and implementation of a Children First, Offender Second approach to engaging with children who come...
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A ‘Lens of Labor’: Re-Conceptualizing Young People’s Involvement in Organized Crime
Millions of the world’s children engage in labor, often exploitative and essential to their survival. Child labor is closely related to crime; global...
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Extending the long arm of the law: punishment and rehabilitation as motives of public support for handling violent juvenile offenders as adults
ObjectivesTo assess variation in public support for involving violent juvenile offenders in the adult criminal justice system based on the mechanism...
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Intergenerational continuity of crime among children of organized crime offenders in the Netherlands
As existing literature on intergenerational continuity of criminal behavior is mainly based on data on ‘general’ offenders and their children, the...
