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Showing 1 to 20 of 1090 for “"Criminology"”.
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Cybercrime and public criminology
… of cybercrime is an enduring theme across the criminology literature. As a result, a disconnect between stakeholders involved in digital crime seems to contribute to irresponsible discourse and ineffective policy. Further, this confusion has created a competition of interests in which …
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Chaos Criminology: A Critical Inquiry
… since the early 1980’s for a paradigm shift in criminology from a Newtonian-based ontology to one of quantum physics. Primarily this effort has taken the form of integrating Chaos Theory into Criminology into what this thesis calls ‘Chaos Criminology’. However, with the melding of any two …
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Public criminology: Its social construction and policy implications
The subject matter of this thesis is public criminology, that is, causal explanations of crime employed by the lay public. The thesis is that different styles of public criminology exist, that each is a product of a different social background and each produces a different set of lay attitudes …
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New Directions in State Crime: A Queer Criminology Perspective
… This paper argues for the integration of queer criminology into the field of state crime to elevate harms against the LGBTQ+ community into academic awareness. Case studies demonstrating direct state violence in Russia’s Chechen Republic and indirect state violence against trans women in the …
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The Devil in the Details: Popular Demonology, Addiction and Criminology
<p>Theories of diabolism have, since antiquity, made manifest societal fears of the unknown. Demonology, as discipline, flourished within the West accordingly; to function, at the inception of early modern science and during the "transition" to capitalism, as a device to translate alterity. At this …
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Nemo's Plight: Political Economy, Green-Cultural Criminology, and Fish Abuse
… an integrated theoretical framework in green criminology that strengthens the political economic "treadmill of production" theory (see Lynch et al., 2013) by incorporating an analysis of the "cultural grease" that ensures the treadmill’s smooth operation. Choosing fish as a subject matter, …
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Critical criminology in South Africa : developing paradigms and theoretical models
… will cloud the judgements made in the field of Criminology are linked to these broader matters of international relations, and gee-political issues, because the political struggle in South Africa has been utilized in terms of this debate, and the achievement of the democratic demands has become …
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A 'community criminology' : perceptions of crime and social control amongst Bradford Pakistanis
… significance of the `race and crime' stream in criminology, knowledge held by minority ethnic groups on these matters is still much overlooked. It is this gap in the literature that this thesis begins to fill, based on both fieldwork and documentary research. The case-study through which the …
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Awakening from androcentrism: calls for measurement of gender and sexuality in criminology
… have been made to progress the inclusivity of criminology, a field historically dominated by males. While specialty journals, such as Feminist Criminology, permit and encourage inclusive and progressive conceptualizations of social constructs such as gender and sexuality, these recent calls …
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Computational criminology: at-scale quantitative analysis of the evolution of cybercrime forums
Cybercrime forums and marketplaces are used by members to share hacking techniques, general community-building discussions, and trade hacking tools. While there is a large corpus of literature studying these platforms, from a cross-forum ecosystem comparison to smaller qualitative analyses of …
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Developing Internet research skills among criminology honours students and researchers in the Institute of Criminology, University of Cape Town : an evaluation of the methods and materials used for this purpose
… assist honours students and researchers in the Criminology Department at theUniversity of Cape Town to fully utilise resources available through the Internet and other online databases, an online electronic research skills tutorial was developed and implemented. The aim of this research is to …
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A criminology of catastrophe: a critical analysis of imperialistic state crime and the Haiti earthquake
… crime, thus illuminating the relevance of a criminology of catastrophe.
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A Dis-Ability Perspective on the Stigmatization of Dissent: Critical Pedagogy, Critical Criminology, and Critical Animal Studies
… grounded in three formal disciplines: education, criminology, and peace and conflict studies. Within those three disciplines, this project interweaves newly emerging fields of study together, including critical animal studies, eco-ability, disability studies, environmental justice, transformative …
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Finding patterns in features and observations : new machine learning models with applications in computational criminology, marketing, and medicine
… various fields like marketing, healthcare, and criminology, where domain experts wish to find and understand interesting patterns from data. This thesis studies patterns that are defined by subsets of observations or subsets of features. The first part of the thesis studies patterns defined by …
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Accessing the Authentic Psychiatric Experience: Using Psychiatric Artefacts and Archival Documents to Facilitate Object-Based Learning in the Law and Criminology Classroom
… combined constructivist OBL with a conventional criminology and law syllabus, including lectures and case studies. Mental health law modules were adapted to incorporate OBL, using archival psychiatric case files and artefacts of patients' personal belongings to achieve this. The research aimed to …
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Who's writing what we read: authorship in criminological research
… type, with a majority of first authors in Criminology and Critical Criminology being male. In contrast, gender of first authors in Race & Justice was equally distributed, while an overwhelming portion of first authors in Feminist Criminology were female. Additionally, gender of author teams …
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Funding Patterns Within Academic Journal Articles: Does Money Buy Knowledge?
… the contene of articles in two prominent criminology and criminal justice journals during the time period of 1984-1997. The content analysis yielded 801 articles from <italic>Criminology and Justice Quarterly</italic>. The examination intended to determine the effect of funding on the …
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Green and Grey: Water Justice, Privatization, and Resistance
… its initial proposal in the 1990s, `green criminology' has focused on environmental crimes and harms affecting non-human and human life, ecosystems, and the planet as a whole. Describing global trends toward privatization of water supply systems and the criminalization of several water …
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