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Showing 1 to 20 of 83 for “"Criminology and Penology"”.
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Ex-prisoner leadership and legitimacy: community-based restorative justice in Northern Ireland
… combatants in post-conflict societies and ‘ordinary’ ex-offenders in settled democracies within the fields of conflict transformation, transitional justice, peace studies, criminology, and penology. Within such research, these individuals are often portrayed as threats to be managed, …
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Understanding public attitudes toward sentencing.
… are complex. However, it is important to understand what the public's ideas are about the types of sentences that should be given to offenders. The aim of the present study was to empirically examine public attitudes toward sentencing in Canada. In particular, the public's sentencing preferences …
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The Hyper-Criminalization of the Latinx Community
… by which an individual’s everyday behaviors and styles become ubiquitously treated as deviant, risky, threatening, or criminal, across social contexts” (Rios, xiv). The results of this research study show that there are 3 main ways in which Little Village residents are hyper-criminalized: by …
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Police and Burnout: A Quantitative and Theoretical Analysis of Burnout in American Policing
… on individual outcomes related to officer health and performance. This dissertation study suggests a more comprehensive approach leading in two directions: a quantitative analysis of three individual theories of burnout—conservation of resources (COR), job demands-resources (JD-R), and areas of …
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MAINE'S NEW JUVENILE CODE: A CASE STUDY IN JUVENILE JUSTICE REFORM
… of the juvenile court at the turn of the century and the idea of "socialized" juvenile justice on which it was based. Because the objective was rehabilitation rather than punishment, constitutional rights applicable in criminal justice proceedings were deemed unnecessary. In response to a wave of …
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CRIMINAL HOMICIDE IN NORTH CAROLINA, 1975-1977
… criminal homicide in North Carolina between 1975 and 1977. Using Uniform Crime Report data between 1933 and 1979, North Carolina was compared to non-Southern and national time series trends. North Carolina's criminal homicide rate was shown to have decreased dramatically during the preceding four …
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THE LIVES OF CRIMINALLY VIOLENT WOMEN (VOLUMES I AND II) (STRESS, HOMICIDE)
… purpose of the present study is to better understand why some people kill others. Using the autobiographical accounts of convicted female homicide offenders, this work defines the life experiences behind their violence. Seventy-six women, representing several age and racial groups, were separately …
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Law enforcement's reconceptualization of juvenile prostitutes from delinquency offenders to child sexual abuse victims in six US cities
… in prostitution has proven to be a difficult and complex issue for law enforcement, child welfare, and social service agencies to confront. This stems from the complicated social and legal aspects of the problem, which have created considerable ambiguity in how to recognize, define and, …
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Juvenile justice reform: A tale of two systems
… to alleviate detention center overcrowding and to reduce disproportionate minority confinement in those centers. The instrument under analysis limits discretion by judges in the detention decision making process. The second reform effort, family court, is premised on the rehabilitative …
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The role of risk assessment in pre-sentence reports: Perceptions and experiences of judges and probation officers
… this thesis is to examine the opinions of judges and probation officers on the inclusion of risk assessment information in pre-sentence reports. This thesis analyzes data related to opinions on risk obtained through interviews, questionnaires, and pre-sentence reports. This data was collected …
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Les restrictions du port de l'arme de service chez les corps policiers municipaux au Québec : un débat qui n'a pas encore eu lieu.
Nous voulions, dans cette recherche, reperer les debats concernant la pertinence pour les policiers municipaux au Quebec de porter une arme a feu et analyser les arguments qui y sont contenus. Pour realiser cet objectif, nous avons procede en trois etapes. Premierement, nous avons examine la …
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La criminalisation de l'inceste: Justifiable ou non?
Abstract Not Available.
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Metaphor, the press, and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS).
… role in the public conceptions of crime and the criminal justice system. The theoretical basis of the work, which integrates studies in phenomenology and metaphor, serves as a vehicle to arrive at a critical understanding of the press portrayal of the security legislation (CSIS Act). The …
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Crime, criminality, and gangs
… relationships between gang membership, crime, and criminality. It begins by introducing the distinction 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, …
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Contesting the Utopia: Power and Resistance in Abusive Lesbian Relationships
… the lived experience of lesbian battering and the dominant domestic violence discourses. The work's title describes the underlying power of utopic understandings of lesbian relationships as articulated by the vestiges of lesbian-feminist philosophy that permeate the multiple sites of power …
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Payback: The Nature and Morality of Revenge
… this dissertation is that revenge can be morally and rationally justified. The notions that revenge is pointless, that ""two wrongs do not make a right"", and commonsense and religious admonitions to ""forgive and forget"" or to forswear revenge and ""turn the other cheek"" all suggest the …
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Sexual Assault and the Mens Rea Problem: The Empathic Approach
The defense of consent and the alleged difficulty of determining if a victim has given consent prevent the crime of rape from being congruent with women's experience of it. If the perpetrator of a rape mistakenly believes that the victim has consented, the perpetrator fails to have the necessary …
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