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The Global Rise of Criminal Background Checks
The extensive use of criminal background checks—the request for information on prior convictions for non-judicial purposes—creates obstacles to a...
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Criminal records versus rehabilitation and expungement: a randomised controlled trial
PurposeWhat is the effect of having a criminal record compared to having the criminal record expunged in exchange for participating in a...
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Official Criminal Careers
Official criminal records are one of the most well-known sources of crime data. Accordingly, this chapter reviews the process whereby the criminal...
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Racial Bias in Criminal Records
ObjectivesGovernment officials use criminal records as proxies for past conduct to decide who and how to investigate, arrest, charge, and punish. But...
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Unraveling the Sequences of Risk Factors Underlying the Development of Criminal Behavior
This work aims to investigate the role of sequences of risk factors from childhood to young adulthood in predicting subsequent criminal...
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Identitas per Fabulam: Joint Fantasising in the Construction of Criminal Group Identities
We investigate the role of joint fantasising in constructing criminal identities. By analysing joint fantasies that emerge from interactions among...
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Criminal Justice Reform and Inequality
The criminal legal system is a “stratifying institution” insofar as it reflects inequalities by selecting already marginalized people into the...
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The Criminal Selfie: Conveying Grievance While Recording and Live Streaming Antisocial Behavior
Despite attempts to regulate content, social media platforms continue to host images of antisocial behavior and crime. These images include dashboard...
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Criminal Careers of Burglars and Robbers in the Netherlands
This paper investigates criminal career characteristics and trajectories of domestic burglars, residential and commercial robbers, and street robbers...
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Research Training for Criminal Justice Reform
Who is going to do the work of criminal justice reform? Recognizing the capacity limits of even the most reform-minded academic criminologists, this...
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Criminal Careers of Domestic Sex Traffickers in the Netherlands: Distinguishing Different Offending Trajectories
Human trafficking, among which domestic sex trafficking, is often only understood from the perspective of the victim, since research on traffickers —...
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Mechanisms, timing, and types of the relationship between paternal criminal justice involvement and children’s health: a sibling comparison analysis
ObjectivesIn this study, we investigate the mechanisms, timing, and types of the relationship between paternal criminal justice involvement and...
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Reflections on Criminal Justice Reform: Challenges and Opportunities
Considerable efforts and resources have been expended to enact reforms to the criminal justice system over the last five decades. Concerns about...
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Criminal Careers of Individuals Convicted for a Sexual Offence: an International Comparison
By comparing criminal careers of individuals who have sexually offended to those who have not sexually offended, the current study examines whether...
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Examining the Fairness of Criminal Judicial Procedures in China: a Quantitative Analysis of the Influential Factors in the Application of Technical Investigations in Drug-related Cases
Amidst concerns from both Chinese and Anglo-American scholars regarding the deployment of technical investigative measures, questions have emerged...
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Criminal justice involvement, structural vulnerability and social safety net services among people living with HIV in Baltimore
Mass incarceration has shaped the environment of HIV transmission, yet there is limited research on the conditions that enhance or mitigate access to...
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How to Think about Criminal Justice Reform: Conceptual and Practical Considerations
How can we improve the effectiveness of criminal justice reform efforts? Effective reform hinges on shared understandings of what the problem is and...
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Human Dignity, Rights and Victim Participation in Criminal Justice
Human dignity is the cornerstone of human rights and central to the Treaty on European Union (EU) and the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. It is...
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The value of criminal history and police intelligence in vetting and selection of police
Despite decades of research considering police misconduct, there is still little consensus on officer characteristics associated with misconduct, and...
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Prison Violence in Latin America: Criminal Governance and an Absent State
Using a survey applied to incarcerated populations in Latin American countries, this study aims to examine the factors that determine the existence...
