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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Criminal offenders"”.
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Adult Criminal Offenders Recollection Of Childhood Exposure To Trauma And Its Impact
… childhood exposure to trauma and subsequent criminal offending by adults who have experienced childhood trauma<strong>. </strong>This study was conducted with 18 participants through one-on-one semi-structured interviews that explored the perceived lived experiences, understandings, and …
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Factors Influencing the Attitudes of College Students Toward Rehabilitation or Punishment of Criminal Offenders
… students toward rehabilitation or punishment for criminal offenders. More specifically, the study will examine attitudes toward the six common crimes listed below. Method: Survey analysis was used to asses college students' attitudes toward the six common crimes (robbery, rape, molestation, …
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Characteristics of Community Service Programs and Probationers in Texas
As a criminal sanction, community service involves unpaid labor on the part of convicted criminal offenders. Community service was created as an alternative to incarceration for low-level offenders. It now appears, however, that community service is rarely used as a true alternative to prison, but …
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Criminality Groups and Substance Abuse
… differentiation between nonviolent and violent criminal offenders and type of substance used is not substantiated by findings presented in this study.
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Cultivation of fear of Blacks in Las Vegas television news media
… overrepresentation of crime committed by Black offenders. One research question and two hypotheses were generated for this study. Research question one asked if there was an inverse relationship existing between media reports of index crimes and actual data offered by the State of Nevada …
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Essays in empirical law and economics
… uses empirical methods to study questions in criminal procedure and employment antidiscrimination law. The first chapter measures the consequences for offenders of expanding constitutional criminal jury trial rights. I study the Supreme Court's landmark decision in Apprendi v. New Jersey …
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The Moral Permissibility of Punishment
… offers an account of the moral permissibility of criminal punishment. Punishment presents a distinctive moral challenge in that it involves a community’s inflicting harm on individuals, treating them in ways that would typically be morally wrong. We can distinguish a number of different …
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Raising a ‘red flag’ by not going to school: A grounded theory study of family coach intervention with persistent school non-attenders.
… suffer mental health difficulties and to become criminal offenders in adult life. Family coaches work with families where a child has persistently poor or no school attendance, alongside adult unemployment or anti-social behaviour. Uniquely, their work extends across different systems: school; …
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Reentry Education and Program Development: Philosophical Approaches of Senior Administrators to Reduce Recidivism Rates in Correctional Institutions
… changing. Over the years, efforts to marginalize criminal activity have included major legislative changes, local policy changes, increased regulations, and restrictions on those who have committed crimes. Effective corrections administrators are having a positive impact by reducing recidivism …
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Formerly Incarcerated Adults in Higher Education: A Life-History Study of a Restorative Approach to Prisoner Reentry
… community support and acceptance for criminal offenders in order to allow them to become beneficial members of society. The literature on prisoner re-entry and reintegration suggests that the formerly incarcerated are more apt to successfully re-enter society when they attain education …
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Employment of People with Criminal Records: An Exploratory Study of the State of Georgia
Individuals in Georgia with criminal records have many barriers and collateral consequences which impact their ability to find employment upon release from prison. Collateral consequences are those repercussions which impact the ex-offender’s civil liberties after they are released from prison. …
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College Students’ Punitive Attitudes toward Five Types of Sex Offenders: Examining Factors that Influence Punitive Preferences
… attitudes toward five different types of sex offenders. In addition, various factors that influence college students’ punitive attitudes will be measured in order to assess their significance. Surveys were administered to a total of 809 students at a large southern university. Through the …