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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Crime severity"”.
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Recidivism among ex-combatants of illegal armed groups in Colombia: An analysis of participants in the reintegration process
… history variables influenced reoffending and crime severity in a sample of 16,834 ex-combatants from IAGs in Colombia, who were registered into the reintegration programme (RP) in 2006 and were monitored during a two-year ‘time at risk’ period. The purpose of the study is to identify the main …
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Protecting the Majority: A Study into the Difference in State Response to Militant Extremists
… or Minority target influences sentencing severity. The research uses information collected on 510 indictees in "The American Terrorism Study, 1980-2002", which was funded by the United States Department of Justice. Using an OLS regression (Independent Variables: Type of Militant Group, …
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Just world violations prompt beliefs in karmic retribution
… people to think that someone who perpetrates a crime against another person will experience an adverse event in response? In other words, how much do people believe in karmic retribution? Across three studies, we examined this question in the present research. Participants were randomly assigned …
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On supporting K-anonymisation and L-diversity of crime databases with genetic algorithms in a resource constrained environment
The social benefits derived from analysing crime data need to be weighed against issues relating to privacy loss. To facilitate such analysis of crime data Burke and Kayem [7] proposed a framework (MCRF) to enable mobile crime reporting in a developing country. Here crimes are reported via mobile …
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Political Motive and Bail: The Effect of Prosecutorial Strategies on Pretrial Decisions in Federal Terrorism Trials
… less likely to receive pretrial release and that crime severity and community ties have significant roles in pretrial bail decisions. Surprisingly, race was also significant with white defendants being less likely to be released on bail. However, failure to secure pretrial release was not found to …
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How Research Design can Impact the Evaluation of Policing Interventions: The development of an integrity model as part of a randomised controlled trial to evaluate a police-led diversion scheme
… and found to be seriously impacted by outlier crime severity score values. However, evidence of a greater reduction in the Checkpoint treatment cohort could be found by applying different statistical techniques to account for these complexities in the dataset. An economic analysis using the …