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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Criminological theory"”.
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Modern English Football Hooliganism: A Quantitative Exploration in Criminological Theory
… over the past thirty years and deserves criminological attention. Football hooliganism is criminal activity, but is unique because of its context specific nature, occurring almost entirely inside the grounds or in proximity to the stadiums where the matches are played. This project …
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Greed or grievance : why is South African youth crime so violent in nature? : First world taste on a third world budget or simply marginalised from centre-stage?
How can criminological theory assist in making sense of the youth subcultures that are involved in criminal activity of a violent nature in the contemporary South African context? - T.p. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 207-219).
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Computational criminology: at-scale quantitative analysis of the evolution of cybercrime forums
… grounded in the digital drift framework from criminological theory. This finds a trend towards financially-driven cybercrime over time, by users and the forum as a whole. The second contribution of the thesis presents a method for detecting trending terms, using a lightweight natural language …
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A Critical Engagement with Piratical Opinion
… a post-postmodern return to sociological and criminological theory. This research also acknowledges a physical/biological component to all intangibility, internet and computer related activity and tries to build further a relationship between the physical and intangible spheres of existence. …
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Crime, criminality, and gangs
… between crime and criminality, and analyzing criminological theory using this distinction. Next, it describes how these same theories view the role of social institutions like family, school, and peers. It also explores more substantive/methodological questions concerning gang membership. …
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A Systematic Review of Huikahi Reentry Circles: A Restorative Justice Process for Families Impacted by Incarceration
Research and criminological theory indicate that familial support is one of the most crucial aspects of the reentry process. Historically, the criminal justice system does not meet the reentry needs of incarceration-impacted individuals. Lorren Walker and restorative justice practitioners attempt …
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Involvement in Sports and Engagement in Delinquency: An Examination of Hirschi's Social Bond Theory.
… of reducing participation in delinquency. One criminological theory that would support this hypothesis is Travis Hirschi's social bond theory. The involvement element of that theory proposes that engaging juveniles in non-delinquent activities reduces engagement in delinquency. However, the …
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Epicrim and child sexual abuse: a public health theory for a criminal justice epidemic
… which it takes place. Epicrim is an emerging criminological theory that seeks to re-conceptualize crime as a public health issue and adoptsf a cross-disciplinary approach that is rooted in public health strategies. Here, epicrim was applied to the issue of CSA to see whether the theory is …
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R.M. Renfield: The Missing Link in the Degeneration of Humans into Vampires in Bram Stoker's Dracula
… the influence of contemporary degeneration and criminological theory on the vampire characters, specifically Dracula. This paper looks at how these same theories are shown in the character R.M. Renfield, a patient in Dr. Seward’s mental asylum. Previous scholars have established that the novel …
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From American Service to Disservice: An Exploration of the Impact of Military Experience among an Incarcerated Population
… have theoretical implications for the use of criminological theory in military service research, and they provide suggestions for future military and criminal justice policy development.
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TESTING CRIMINOLOGICAL AND SOCIOLOGICAL EXPLANATIONS FOR THE FORMATION OF HATE GROUPS
… uses simulation modeling to test Hamm's (2004) criminological theory of collective hate and Weber's (1947) socio-political theory of charismatic leadership. Simulation modeling is designed to create a computer simulation that simplifies people and their interactions to mimic a real world event …
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Bullying in the workplace: a case study of the University of Cape Town
… to draw on themes drawn from a review of Criminological Theory (Routine Activities and Normalisation Theory) and Transformational Theory to present a case study on Bullying at the University of Cape Town. These themes include the normalisation of deviant behaviour in workplaces, the impact …
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Global Social Disorganization: Applying Social Disorganization Theory to the Study of Terrorist Organizations
… literature are reviewed next. Finally, a criminological framework is applied to the study of terrorist organizations and the environments in which they operate. The primary purpose of the present investigation is to determine whether a classic criminological theory, social disorganization …
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The Immigrant-Criminality Paradox: A Macro-Level Analysis of the Relationship Between Immigration and Violent Crime in San Antonio, Texas
… initially provided support for traditional criminological theory that posits a positive relationship between immigration and violent crime, an optimized hot-spot analysis showed that changing crime patterns and changes in Mexican-immigrant concentration were generally unrelated. Furthermore, …
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Voicing desistance: Female perspective on giving up crime
Criminological theory and research has historically focused on explaining how people get into crime and much less on how and why they stop, despite the perennial finding that most of those with convictions do eventually stop offending. The very meaning of ‘desistance’ however has been much …
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Silent Punishment: The Experiences of d/Deaf Prisoners
While studies about minority group prisoners are becoming more commonplace in prison research, knowledge about the experiences of hard of hearing (HoH) and d/Deaf prisoners remains limited. A primary aim of this thesis is to provide a more comprehensive understanding about the lives of HoH/d/Deaf …
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Crime politics and late modernity : an exploration of community, identity and morality
… decline is not new and there is a wide range, of criminological theory that explores the link between disadvantage, urban decay and crime rates. Yet under New Labour, community decline has been reframed as moral breakdown. This has led to a battery of rhetoric and policy, designed to instil moral …
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‘Car-chase TV’: The Legitimisation of Police Work?
‘Car chase TV’ has become a staple of U.K. television schedules over the past two decades. Conveyed in a plethora of observational documentaries (ob-docs), mediated images of police vehicular pursuits (PVPs) are packaged as entertainment products. However, the rise of PVPs as a ubiquitous …
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Risky Businesses: A Micro-Level Spatiotemporal Analysis of Crime, Place, & Business Establishment Type
… crime data, and availability of existing theory and methods to study crime at micro-levels.</p> <p>Interestingly, many studies indicate that crimes are clustered at neighborhood level, but the entire neighborhood is rarely (if ever) criminogenic and only specific parts of neighborhoods …
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Police Culture and Socialisation within a UK University
… It evolved by utilising reflexive grounded theory to examine the student perception of the police service, using questionnaires, focus groups and content analysis of completed essays, by Foundation in Policing Degree students. In summary the findings of this research suggested that …
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