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A Model for Predicting Fear of Terrorism through Fear of Crime, Gender, Locus of Control and Co** Strategies
This study examines the assumption that aspects of fear of crime (fear of rape and sense of insecurity) predict fear of terrorism. The online survey...
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Gender, Crime and Justice
This textbook takes a gender inclusive and intersectional feminist approach to examining key topics related to gender, crime and justice. It provides...
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Gender and Crime in Croatia: Female Criminality in Context
This chapter provides an in-depth criminological analysis of crime (trends) in Croatia with a primary focus on female criminality, as well as...
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The nexus of women and ‘Clan Crime’: unravelling the dynamics and constraints
Despite its prominence in public debate, scholars have given little attention to women’s roles in ‘clan crime’ in Germany. This article aims to...
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Crime control or just theater? An experimental test of the effects of a mobile safety app on crime prevention intentions and behaviors
ObjectivesWe examined whether mobile safety apps constitute a form of crime control theater that thwarts actions that have the potential to prevent...
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Evading Law Enforcement in the Americas: Latin American women in organized crime
This article presents the preliminary results of a qualitative exploratory study conducted between 2021 and 2023. This study was based on in-depth...
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Gendered Perspectives on Social License and Corporate Crime
This chapter is founded on empirical evidence of stable female involvement in white-collar crime independent of the extent of gender inequality in...
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Gender Variation in the Age-Crime Relation in Cross-National Context: Taiwan-US Comparison
PurposeHirschi and Gottfredson’s premise of a ubiquitous adolescent-driven age-crime relation is widely endorsed, yet empirical tests have relied...
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Parental Migration and Fear of Crime Among Left-Behind Children in Rural China
Utilizing a probability sample of 1,985 middle school students from Guizhou Province, China, this study aims to explore the association between...
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Gender and Crime
Crime is a heterogeneous social phenomenon and does not merely reflect deviant behaviour that is incompatible with society’s laws. Criminality can be...
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Gender-Egalitarianism and the Construction of Official Rape Rates
Cross-national variations in official crime rates likely represent several concurrent criminological and non-criminological phenomena beyond actual ...
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More than “male” and “female”: the role of gender identity in white-collar offending intentions
The gender gap in white-collar crime perpetration is well-established, yet reasons for women’s underrepresentation among this offending group remain...
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Do police stations deter crime?
PurposeThe introduction of community policing led to a significant increase in the number of police stations, particularly in urban settings. Police...
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Analysis of Italian Hate Crime Law
This chapter provides an exemplar of how the ILT can be applied to the assessment of a specific legislation. The multi-level analysis of Italian hate...
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“If you dress like a whore you have to accept being treated like one”: An Interview Study About Women’s Experiences of Misogynistic Hate Crime
The inclusion of gender in hate crime legislation has been the subject of scholarly debate since the 1990s, but only a handful of empirical studies...
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Fear of Crime as a Punitive Project—The Swedish Case
This paper asks what the role of fear of crime research plays in the conception and framing of the crime problem, by unpacking the theoretical...
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Rethinking organized crime in Africa
Much of the existing research on organized crime in Africa has emphasised its development and proliferation from state and security perspectives....
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Organised crime movement across local communities: A network approach
This paper explores the structure of organised crime movement across local communities and the drivers underpinning such movement. Firstly, it builds...
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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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Age, Gender, and Crime in a Stockholm Birth Cohort to Age 64
We study the criminal histories of 14,608 males and females in a full Stockholm birth cohort born in 1953 to age 64. Using an update of The Stockholm...
