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Overcoming Fear by Recollecting the Buddha: His Role in Early Buddhist Texts
The employment of mindfulness in a traditional setting includes the practice of recollection, which can serve to counter fear. In the early...
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Looking more criminal: It’s not so black and white
Prior research regarding the influence of face structure on character judgments and first impressions reveals that bias for certain face-types is...
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Understanding Organized Crime
Criminal organizations and organized crime are phenomena that have entered public imagination through media representations and mythologized...
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The Fear of Being Bullied on the School Bus: Perceptions, Correlations, and Sex Differences
The goals of this study were to determine whether children who took the bus to school on a regular basis felt safest during the commute to school, in...
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“A Silver Duck in the Dish Washing Water” or Love and Crime in the Context of Positive Victimology
Crime in the context of love has always drawn attention in public and has recently become a growing area of research. This chapter aims at providing...
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Importance of Forensic Science in Investigation
This article analyzes the importance of forensic science in investigation with special focus on narcoanalysis, brain map**, and polygraph test....
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What Will You Do When They Think It Was You? Counter-interrogation Strategies of Innocent Interviewees Under Suspicion vs. No Suspicion
The current imaginary mock-crime study examined innocent interviewees’ ( N = 128) planned counter-interrogation strategies and their willingness to...
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Femcel Discussions of Sex, Frustration, Power, and Revenge
Although male incels have received a great deal of scholarly attention in recent years, there has been almost no research on femcels (involuntarily...
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Statistical Considerations
Security could be considered a measurable, objective state, but it is also an expression of a more or less present, highly individual sense of...
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Thematic Analysis of Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma in Latinx Immigrant Families in the Southern US
Immigration is a growing social dynamic in many countries, eliciting a variety of different responses. Proponents of immigration note how the influx...
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Psychological Aspects of Combined Homicide-Suicide (Self-Directed Violence)
From a criminological point of view, homicide-suicide represents a “double death” and takes on a meaning that transcends the specificity of the two...
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Psychological Aspects of Combined Homicide-Suicide (Self-Directed Violence)
From a criminological point of view, homicide-suicide represents a “double death” and takes on a meaning that transcends the specificity of the two...
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Medical and Psychological Management of Victimization
This chapter briefly discusses the mental health consequences of criminal victimization. General guidelines for working with victims of violent crime...
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Hate Crimes: A Special Category of Victimization
Hate crimes are a special category of criminal behavior that involve targeting victims because of their group affiliation or immutable...
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The Combination of Living in High Crime Neighborhoods and High Rumination Predicts Depressive Symptoms among Adolescents
Living in high crime areas and rumination each have been identified as risk factors for depression among youth, yet it is unclear how crime and...
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A Case Study of Police-identified Foraging Burglary Offenders
This study adds to the emerging literature in respect of foraging criminal offenders. Optimal forager theory is drawn from ecology where it is used...
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Extremes of Violence in Serial Homicide
Violence in serial homicide is a complex and dynamic part of an offender’s behavior. This chapter explores how aggressive and violent behavior is a...
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Self-compassion and Fear of Self-compassion: Mechanisms Underlying the Link between Child Maltreatment Severity and Psychological Distress in College Women
ObjectivesWomen are at increased risk for depression and anxiety associated with child maltreatment, given higher rates of exposure to childhood...
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Autism and Sexual Crime
This chapter begins by introducing autism, outlining the main diagnostic features and emphasising its highly heterogeneous nature. Potential links...