Effects of Volunteering Experiences and Motivations on Attitudes Toward Prisoners: Evidence from Hong Kong

Effects of Volunteering Experiences and Motivations on Attitudes Toward Prisoners: Evidence from Hong Kong Abstract Volunteers are playing an increasingly bigger role in correctional institutions both in Western settings and…
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Measuring Disorder: Observer Bias in Systematic Social Observations at Streets and Neighborhoods

Measuring Disorder: Observer Bias in Systematic Social Observations at Streets and Neighborhoods Abstract Objectives The present study focuses on Systematic Social Observation (SSO) as a method to investigate physical and…
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‘Don’t Blow Your Cool’: Provocation, Violent Coping, and the Conditioning Effects of Self-Control

‘Don’t Blow Your Cool’: Provocation, Violent Coping, and the Conditioning Effects of Self-Control Abstract Objectives General Strain Theory (Agnew in Criminology 30:47–87, 1992) has received broad empirical support, but little…
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Toward a Demographic Understanding of Incarceration Disparities: Race, Ethnicity, and Age Structure

Toward a Demographic Understanding of Incarceration Disparities: Race, Ethnicity, and Age Structure Abstract Objectives Non-Hispanic blacks and Hispanics in the United States are more likely to be incarcerated than non-Hispanic…
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Timing of Change in Criminal Offending Around Entrance into Parenthood: Gender and Cross-Country Comparisons for At-Risk Individuals

Timing of Change in Criminal Offending Around Entrance into Parenthood: Gender and Cross-Country Comparisons for At-Risk Individuals Abstract Objectives This article examines the timing of change in criminal offending relative…
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What Drives the Relationship Between Early Criminal Involvement and School Dropout?

What Drives the Relationship Between Early Criminal Involvement and School Dropout? Abstract Objective We examine the relationship between early criminal involvement and school dropout, and analyze which factors underlie this…
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Cuing moral transcendence reduces support for torture and disentangles it from retributive and utilitarian concerns

Cuing moral transcendence reduces support for torture and disentangles it from retributive and utilitarian concerns Volume 9, Issue 1-3, March - November 2016, Page 37-56. Bennett Callaghan Read the syndicated…
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