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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Offending behaviour"”.
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Men, society and crime : an exploration of maleness and offending behaviour
This thesis is the culmination of years of wondering why we ask people to 'be' certain things. One of the first things you notice about people is their keenness to be able to categorise things, so quickly human beings become men and women, criminal or non-criminal, healthy or sick. To deal with the …
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Investigating sex differences in, and predictors of, violent and nonviolent offending behaviour
… the generalist or specialist theories of offending by examining the overlap of, sex differences in, and predictors of intimate partner violence (IPV), general violence and nonviolent offending. IPV is typically studied separately from other types of crime as it is perceived to be a …
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The Cycle of Abuse for Individuals With Intellectual Disabilities who Engage in Sexually Offending Behaviour
… experience of sexual abuse and later sexual offending. However, there is limited research examining this pattern in samples of sex offenders with ID. To contribute to and expand on previous research, two studies were carried out to examine the cycle of abuse. Study 1 was an exploratory …
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The association between trauma, offending behaviour, self harm and substance use with dissociation and absorption in male prisoners
There are an increased number of people imprisoned every year in England and Wales. Whilst in prison up to 13% of prisoners engage in self harm, (HM Chief Inspector of Prisons, 2005) often to cope and deal with the stressful environment of prison life. In addition to this up to 80% of prisoners …
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Criminal Offending and Mental Disorders: Long-term bidirectional and intergenerational effects between mental health problems and offending behaviour
… is to further unravel the interrelations between offending and mental disorders and to contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of their association over the life-course. Methods. First, a broader view is adopted as a strategy to assess the current understanding of the relationship. Then, …
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Placing children in care at centre stage : exploring the experiences and perceptions of children in care about their pathways into offending behaviour
… between care experiences and the onset of offending behaviour that focuses on the perceptions of children in care themselves. This is the first study to focus solely on the perceptions of children in care whilst they are still in care and subject to youth justice supervision. The findings …
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Exploring the risk factors associated with youth offending behavior in Cape Town
… explored the risk factors associated with youth offending behaviour in Cape Town, in order to suggest, from a social development point of view, preventive measures that address the risk factors from an outset. The sample that was used consisted of twenty reforming youth offenders (fifteen males …
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Imagining ‘possible selves’ as an intervention strategy for incarcerated youth
… with risk and resilience factors relating to offending behaviour. It is acknowledged that there has been a recent shift in criminological debates with a greater focus on primary prevention efforts in building resilience to anti-social behaviour in a child’s formative years. However, the …
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Older indigent women’s economic crimes: Subsuming feminism in favour of a human rights explanation
… inequality affecting crime rates and criminal behaviour. For the last 50 years or so, women and girls have been the subject of criminological research that has largely evolved from sociological perspectives and specifically from feminism. Although gender intersects with other social realities …
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Adolescent sexual offending. Prevalence, risk factors and outcome.
… thesis is to explore the prevalence of sexually offending behaviour among female and male adolescents in Sweden. One aim is to identify potential risk factors associated with sexually offending behaviour and a further aim to examine the outcome in early adulthood for a sample of sexually …
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Juvenile crimes in Malawi : life-history narratives of male juvenile offenders
… and adolescence contributed to the participants' offending behaviour. Participants also made sense of their behaviour by constructing themselves as victims of life circumstances, spiritual and supernatural forces, and an inequitable justice system. Some of these attributional models are uncommon …
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The prevalence of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and an investigation of behavioural and executive functioning outcomes (among those who have sustained TBIs) in a sample of male young offenders
Adolescents are at risk for antisocial behaviour as well as for sustaining traumatic brain injuries (TBI; Moffitt, 1993; Williams, Cordan, Mewse, Tonks & Burgess, 2010). International literature has long made known the explicit link that exists between TBI and delinquent behavior (Eslinger, …
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An exploration of adolescents' thoughts about their sexually abusive behaviour : a qualitative study
… offenders' thoughts about their sexuallyabusive behaviour and to understand their perspective of cognitive distortion using Interpretative Phenomenology qualitative methodology. Five participants convicted of indecent assault, attempted rape or rape were recruited from two sites and consented to …
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Risk factors for offending: A developmental approach
… to identify the risk and protective factors for offending primarily in juveniles; however this research has not extended to high security adult offenders who represent the most significant risk to society. This thesis utilised previously researched risk factor models to identify developmental …
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Connected corrections and corrected connections: post-release supervision of long sentence male prisoners
… trauma is often at the root of addiction and offending behaviour, based on qualitative interview data with twelve men approaching release. Their narratives revealed histories of neglect, abuse, family dysfunction, poverty, deprivation and community adversity. My core interviewees’ accounts of …
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Exploring the value of engagement mentoring as a preventative strategy with at-risk youth
… for young children identified as ‘at-risk’ of offending behaviour. Work was carried out in the Kingstanding area of Birmingham, which might be described as a socially disadvantaged / economically deprived suburb of the city. The Concluding Chapter suggests how engagement mentoring as an …
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An Invitation to Change? An Ethnographic Study of a Residential Therapeutic Community for Substance Use
… management and supervision of lawbreakers whose offending behaviour is heavily influenced by substance use.
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Organized Crime: An Ethnographic study of the monitoring and disrupting of those designated as high-level ‘organized criminals’ within the Metropolitan Police
… aimed at reducing ‘top tier’ organized criminal behaviour in the MPS. The research was an exploration of how organized criminals are defined, particularly during disruption panels aimed at measuring law enforcement successes. The study examines the process by which ancillary orders are obtained …
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Custody, care and criminality: clinical aspects of forensic psychiatric institutionalisation in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Ireland
… and/or intellectual disability who engaged in offending behaviour in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Ireland experienced lengthy periods of detention, high levels of mental and physical illness, and a relatively high risk of dying in the asylum, despite contemporary awareness of this …
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Attentional bias towards positive and negative imagery amongst offenders and non-offenders with intellectual disabilities
… processing have long been used to explain offending behaviour in people with intellectual disabilities (ID), and the way in which attention is allocated to stimuli is thought to be integral to developmental models of offending that incorporate these ideas (Garrigan & Langdon, In Press). The …
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