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Caribbean Immigrants’ Willingness to Report Crime to the Police in New York City
The reporting of crime as victims and witnesses has important implications for police effectiveness in crime prevention, crime control, and community...
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Policing Hate Crime: Exploring the Issue with a Cohort of Sworn Police Officers
Globally, there has been a trend in rising levels of hate crime that scholars have argued is reflective of significant social problems within...
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Crime Scene and Victim Characteristics in Sexual Homicide Cases Where the Body is Openly Displayed
Research on body disposal methods in cases of sexual homicide primarily focused on the movement of the victim’s body from the crime scene to the dump...
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Characteristics of the Crime (Motives, Sequence of Events)
This chapter focuses on the objective characteristics of the crime. Are school shootings impulsive or planned in detail? Are firearms always used as...
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Assessing attitudes about hate: Further validation of the hate crime beliefs scale
The Hate Crime Beliefs Scale (HCBS) is an assessment of attitudes about hate crime laws, offenders, and victims. The original HCBS includes four...
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Crime Scene Investigators
This chapter will examine the impact of stress and trauma on crime scene investigator’s (CSI’s) mental health. While many first-responder occupations...
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True Crime Consumption as Defensive Vigilance: Psychological Mechanisms of a Rape Avoidance System
The circumvention of female reproductive choice via rape is a costly and evolutionarily persistent threat to women’s reproductive fitness. This is...
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Fear of crime and preference for aggressive-formidable same-sex and opposite-sex friends
Previous research has found that when faced with dangerous environments, women may have an evolved preference for physically strong and aggressive...
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Fear, Anxiety and Their Meaning for Our Life from Psychodynamic Point of View. Modern Psychoanalytical Approaches to Anxiety Disorders
Anxiety as an affect is experienced on a psychological level and is associated with other affects such as despair, anger, hopelessness and other...
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The Fear of the Known
The End User License Agreement or EULA is a piece of legalese that most of us have never read, but that most of us are bound by. It often arrives in...
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Ethical Relationality, Precarity, and Vulnerability: “a way of facing things without fear”
Building on the assumption, advanced by psychosocial studies, that psychic and social processes are intimately intertwined, this chapter’s key...