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Showing 1 to 20 of 67 for “"Criminal Behavior"”.
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Stature and Criminal Behavior
… small stature as a potential contributor to criminal behavior. This study examines the relationship between criminal behavior and stature among American males. The heights, weights, stature scores (a function of the product of height and weight) and the body mass indices of criminals are …
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Paraphilias and the Medicalization of Criminal Behavior
… paraphilias are just a way to medicalize sexual behavior that is simply abnormal by society's standards, these arguments typically target paraphilias that do not involve immoral or illegal behaviors. To my knowledge, philosophers have largely ignored the 'criminal paraphilias' (like pedophilia) …
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Family Structure and the Criminal Behavior of Juveniles in Tennessee.
… the association between family type and criminal behavior of juveniles in Tennessee who were referred to Juvenile Court in 2006. The population used in the study comprised the juveniles who were referred to the Tennessee Juvenile Courts as reported by the Tennessee Council of Juvenile and …
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Differences in Characteristics of Criminal Behavior Between Solo and Team Serial Killers
<p>Criminal Profiling and classification of serial killers has been an expanding area of research for decades. Recent research has called into question the accuracy and utility of these systems, and calls for further research and development. This study aims to use the Serial Killer Database (SKDB) …
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Daimonion : A multi-disciplinary perspective on aggressive evil and its interconnection with individual psychology and criminal behavior
… to the inner psychology of the person and criminal behavior. The main theoretical sources of the present thesis come from the studies of P. Zimbardo on the good nature versus the evil nature of people, S. Milgram’s work on obedience to authority, H. Arendt’s report on the ‘banality of …
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Violent socialization processes and criminal behavior: An international perspective on variations in social control during late adolescence and emerging adulthood
… socialization processes are associated with criminal behavior, both at the micro-level and macro-level, across 32 different nations. Analyses were conducted on data from the International Dating Violence Study (Straus & Members of the International Dating Violence Research Consortium, 2004). …
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Integrating States, Traits, and a Dual-process Approach with Criminal Decision-making Literature: Theoretical and Methodological Advancements
When assessing what factors promote or deter criminal behavior, theories have primarily focused on: 1) distal, individual differences or 2) proximal, decision-making factors about perceived costs and benefits. By remaining independent, each approach limits its explanatory power. Methodologically, …
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Kent Kiehl’s Search for the Criminal Brain America’s self-proclaimed “psychopath whisperer” says he can predict criminality in incarcerated people. Is the legal system buying it?
… attempted to uncover the biological roots of criminality. The process has been both scientifically dubious and ethically fraught. While biological theories of criminal behavior faded after World War II, they arose again in the 1990s and early 2000s, when new brain imaging techniques collided …
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Strain, negative emotional affect, and the criminal adaptations of women
… Strain Theory to explain the self-reported criminality of women. Using a sample of chemically addicted women, this research examines how strains with special relevance for women---losing custody of a child, homelessness, being a victim of assault, suffering from female related health …
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Crime, Media, and The American Dream: The Role of Media Consumption in Institutional Anomie Theory
… on committing multiple forms of serious criminal behavior. As hypothesized, television consumption directly increases the odds of committing three types of serious criminal behavior (economic based, violent, and general). In addition, the results suggest that compared to light television …
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A Comparison of Strain, Social Learning, Control, and Trauma Theories of Crime
… focused on the role of trauma as a predictor of criminal behavior, especially for women. However, little research has empirically compared these theories to one another. The current study examined these four major theories to determine which best explains non-violent and violent criminal …
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Relationship of the PDI Employment Inventory Scales to Criminal Behaviors
… International Employment Inventory scales to criminal behavior by using 796 offenders with criminal records in the Texas Department of Corrections and a random sample of 893 non-offender job applicants. The hypothesis that offenders would score lower in integrity scores than non-offenders only …
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Crime on the High Seas: What Conditions Are Necessary to Achieve Effective Maritime Governance Regime?
… problematic addressing transnational criminal behavior. I argue that four criteria are absolutely necessary to determine whether any collective regimes will be successful. The first of these criteria includes states’ political will to cooperate with one another to recognize and address …
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An Exploration of the Calls Received by the Kentucky Council on Problem Gambling Help Hotline
… males and females, particularly regarding criminal behavior in the effort to recoup gambling losses or to continue gambling. An additional breakdown of seasonal and regional call logs further analyzes the use of the KYCPG hotline. </p>
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Psychopathy Symptom Profiles and Neuropsychological Measures Sensitive to Orbitofrontal Functioning
… Experience (DAE) and Impulsive and Irresponsible Behavioral Style (IIB) factors of the Cooke and Michie (2001) three-factor model of psychopathy. Regression analysis failed to demonstrate a relationship between OF functioning and the DAE and IIB factors. Group differences on OF functioning were …
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An Analysis of Adler's Theory and the Female Criminal
… regarding socio-economic influences on female criminal behavior or dispute her theory? My research involved three female criminals: Karla Faye Tucker, Andrea Yates, and Susan Smith. I addressed Adler's theory in detail, other theories, the makeup of the female criminal and various female …
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Does religion matter? A test of classical theories of deviance on two different religious types
… to two classical theories of crime and deviant behavior. The first objective of this research is to determine whether a conventional religion, Methodism, deters crime and deviant behavior better than an unconventional religious type, Shambhala Buddhism, and a control group of nonreligious …
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Examining gender specific treatment programs in women's prisons
… a significant impact on females' pathway toward criminal lifestyle, incarceration, relapse, and recidivism. Due to feminists' research, today we know that females offenders' pathways toward substance abuse, criminal behavior, and recidivism differ from those of males. As a result, a discussion …
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Semper Fi: How Images of Death in NCIS Affect Attitude Change
… and their perceptions of military personnel's criminal behavior. Participants viewed a short video clip from an episode of NCIS which contained either a sympathetic or non-sympathetic frame of the military and, in the treatment condition, a mortality salience reminder. Frame (sympathetic or …
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