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Showing 1 to 20 of 306 for “"Criminology and Criminal Justice"”.
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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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The Michigan prisoner reentry initiative: An examination of a statewide reentry program
… sparked a significant interest in the field of criminology and criminal justice; however, it is blatantly apparent that attention to the subject is not only needed but necessary. Each day men and women are sentenced to serve terms in prison systems throughout the country. Simultaneously, each …
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Serial killers in popular media: A content analysis of sensationalism and support for capital punishment
… across the United States since the 1980s, and media representations of serial killers may significantly influence public opinion as well as impact capital punishment policies. This content analysis examined the portrayal of one dozen different serial killers using 120 online media reports …
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Risky Businesses: A Micro-Level Spatiotemporal Analysis of Crime, Place, & Business Establishment Type
… advances in the fields of environmental criminology and geographical information sciences are facilitating place-based research. One of the current trends in environmental criminology is the focus on micro-level `places' including street segments, property lots, and specific kinds of …
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Memorial Laws: Social and Media Construction of Personalized Legislation, 1994-2005
… possibility that certain social, demographic, and political factors have led to the recent adoption by American state legislatures of what are known as Memorial Laws. First enacted in 1994, these laws have become increasingly common. However, there has been little or no formal academic research …
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Examining Probation and Judicial Adherence to the NYC Disposition Matrix
<p>Decisions made by criminal justice professionals in the juvenile justice system can have long-lasting and far-reaching impacts on youth. Structured decision-making (SDM) models, such as disposition matrices, seek to reduce unwarranted disparity and ensure uniformity in sentencing, while still …
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Investigating the Dynamics of Bystander Behavior in Child Sexual Abuse Incidents
… well known that child sexual abuse is a long standing problem in society. Much has been researched concerning the pedophile and other child molesters who choose to sexually exploit minors. Too often the victims of these crimes have been abused over a protracted period—sometimes years. Even more …
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21st Century Tattoo Identification and Information Sharing Thesis
… the concepts: tattoo identification procedures and information sharing challenges among law enforcement. This research contributes to the literature by examining: how Massachusetts police officers feel about tattoo identification, how they catalog tattoos, and the effectiveness of their …
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Diagnosis of Cyber and Nonphysical Bullying Victimization: A Routine Activities Approach to Constructing Effective Preventive Measures
… victimization through many sources. Technology and social networking sites have provided another source in which youths can experience bullying victimization, commonly called "cyber-bullying" (Hinduja and Patchin, 2009). The purpose of this study is to apply Routine Activities Theory (Cohen and …
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A Qualitative Exploration of a Massachusetts Drug Court: How are the 10 Key Components Applied?
<p>With the overwhelming drug offense and policy changes that occurred in the 1980s, the criminal justice system was forced to create other methods of dealing with offenders suffering from substance abuse problems. Therefore, drug court was created as a diversion program. Drug court was first …
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Criminal Homicide in Warren County Kentucky: 1970-1971
… resorting to violent aggression in the form of criminal homicide have often been the object of great public concern. Of the many actions punishable by criminal law, the taking of a human life by another human being most often entails a severe sanction, especially when it has been done …
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Parental Understanding of Miranda Rights
… research focuses on parents' level of understanding of Miranda rights and parents' likelihood of encouraging their teenagers to waive their Miranda rights. The previous research suggests that parents alone may not adequately protect juveniles' rights during interrogation and waiver. Prior …
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The Citizen Police Academy: Assessment of a Program's Effects on Community and Officer Attitudes
… Police Academy (CPA) program on community and officer attitudes. The two main goals of this program are to increase officer awareness of community concerns and to raise community awareness about the police department. Surveys were distributed to three groups: employees of the Bowling Green …
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Motivations of professional strippers
… focused on the external rewards of stripping and has found that the primary motivation for engaging in stripping is the economic gain. This research revealed that there are other motivations to stripping beside just economic. Nonmonetary motivations were significantly important to the …
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The Assessment of Capable Guardianship Measures against Bullying: Victimization in the School Environment
… officers as a variable of capable guardianship and its correlation with the rate and quality of bullying in schools. This research will determine if having capable guardianship, formal or informal, in the school system will have an effect on the deterrence of physical and nonphysical bullying in …
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Empirical Assessment of Lifestyle-Routine Activity and Social Learning Theory on Cybercrime Offending
<p>The Internet and its overwhelming possibilities and applications have changed the way individuals carry out many routine activities such as going to work or school, or socializing. Social networking sites such as Facebook are ideal settings for interacting with others, and unfortunately, are …
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Rape in America: an empirical test of two theories
… theories of rape-pornography consumption and gender inequality-utilizing state-level data. First, it is argued that media consumption patterns have changed due to the popularity of the internet and increasing household broadband access. In particular, it is contended that men who consume …
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School Resource Officer programs: implementation's effect on student perceptions of safety
… to determine the effects that individual and school level variables have on perceptions of safety and on the ability of SRO programs to affect student perceptions. The results of this analysis indicated that none of the included school level variables had an effect on perceptions of …
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Tensions Of Violence, Social Harm, And Profit: An Examination Of The National Football League
<p>The subject of sport and leisure is prominently unchartered territory within criminology. The National Football League provides a unique opportunity for scholarly exploration as the sport is predicated on violence and preserves existing systems of inequality. Stemming from the defining late …
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