Unmarked? Criminal Record Clearing and Employment Outcomes
Unmarked? Criminal Record Clearing and Employment Outcomes An estimated one in three American adults has a criminal record. While some records are for serious offenses, most are for arrests or…
Does Stop and Search Deter Crime? Evidence from Ten Years of London-Wide Data
Does Stop and Search Deter Crime? Evidence from Ten Years of London-Wide Data AbstractIn this article, we used ten years of police, crime and other data from London to investigate…
Homicide in Canada and the crime drop
Homicide in Canada and the crime drop In contrast to the Canadian crime drop of the 1990s, homicide appeared as an anomaly with a peak in the 1970s. Yet previous…
Differentiating Contract Killers: A Narrative-Based Approach
Differentiating Contract Killers: A Narrative-Based Approach Abstract Previous attempts to determine contract killers’ behaviour have not benefited from any formal psychological framework of behavioural distinction. The Narrative Action System model…
STUDYING CRIME TRENDS: NORMAL SCIENCE AND EXOGENOUS SHOCKS*
STUDYING CRIME TRENDS: NORMAL SCIENCE AND EXOGENOUS SHOCKS* Abstract The study of crime trends has proceeded along two paths: 1) normal science investigations of slow-moving and tractable changes in crime…
Resting autonomic nervous system activity is unrelated to antisocial behaviour dimensions in adolescents: Cross-sectional findings from a European multi-centre study
Resting autonomic nervous system activity is unrelated to antisocial behaviour dimensions in adolescents: Cross-sectional findings from a European multi-centre study Publication date: Available online 19 January 2018Source:Journal of Criminal Justice…
A More Nordic Norway? Examining Prisons in 21st Century Iceland
A More Nordic Norway? Examining Prisons in 21st Century Iceland Abstract This article seeks to examine the exact status of Iceland in light of the Nordic penal exceptionalism thesis. This…
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An information theory approach to hypothesis testing in criminological research
An information theory approach to hypothesis testing in criminological research This research demonstrates how the Akaike information criterion (AIC) can be an alternative to null hypothesis significance testing in selecting…
The Depravity Standard I: An introduction
The Depravity Standard I: An introduction Publication date: March–April 2018Source:Journal of Criminal Justice, Volume 55 Author(s): Michael Welner, Kate Y. O'Malley, James Gonidakis, Ryan E. TellalianPurposeCriminal law distinguishes aggravating factors…
Learning to blast a way into crime, or just good clean fun? Examining aggressive play with toy weapons and its relation with crime
Learning to blast a way into crime, or just good clean fun? Examining aggressive play with toy weapons and its relation with crime Abstract BackgroundResearchers, such as Bandura, have proposed…
Age onset of offending and serious mental illness among forensic psychiatric patients: A latent profile analysis
Age onset of offending and serious mental illness among forensic psychiatric patients: A latent profile analysis Abstract BackgroundDevelopmental typologies regarding age of onset of violence and offending have not routinely…