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Showing 1 to 20 of 79 for “"Sociology, Criminology and Penology"”.
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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 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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Governing Domestic Violence: The Power, Practice, and Efficacy of Presumptive Arrest and Prosecution Against the Violent Subjectivities of Intimate Abusers
"Police departments and state's attorney's offices across the country have adopted presumptive arrest and prosecution policies to handle domestic violence cases. Presumptive arrest requires police officers to make an arrest whenever 'probable cause' exists that intimate partner violence has …
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The Role of Self-Concept in the Observer's Perception of Theft
… predicted to affect observers' perceptions and labeling of co-worker theft, observers' reporting of co-worker theft, and observers' own theft behavior in a laboratory and field context. Three factors were hypothesized to influence these variables. The first factor is whether the observer is …
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Proving Rape: Sex, Race, and Representation in Chicago Trials and Society, 1937--1969
… women, sexually active single women, black women and working-class women all came forward with reports of rape and found support from authorities. Central to the State's rape cases, female victims presented themselves as capable citizens seeking the right to be heard and believed. As the social …
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Ambient Air Pollution and the Allocation of Environmental Enforcement Effort
… I show that transboundary pollution and penalties for noncompliance generate incentives for strategic behavior by state enforcement agencies: laxness in enforcement of polluting plants with higher potential to generate spillovers in the former and precautionary behavior which leads to …
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Teen Court Offenders, Their Experience, and Re-Offending: Processing the Soft End of Juvenile Justice
… attitudes. This study used a sample of 38 youths and their parents/guardians to describe offenders and their experiences of a teen court in an Illinois county, and model completing sentences and re-offending based on these factors. These youths reflected the population of area youths and were …
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Exploring the Dynamics of Dating Aggression Among High School Students
… of aggression (e.g., physical, psychological, and relational), allowing for comparisons of these different forms of aggression during late adolescence. Participants included 337 Midwest high school students enrolled in grades nine through twelve. Forty-three percent of the sample was male and …
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Rape Definitions and Perceptions Among Korean Women: Application of a Sociocultural Framework
… instruments were analyzed to reveal similarities and differences in the ways Korean women of different sociocultural backgrounds define and perceive rape. In the rape definition study, the dimensions and the breadth of rape definitions emerged. Nine categories were identified: Five categories …
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Reppin' 4 Life: The Formation and Racialization of Vietnamese American Youth Gangs in Southern California
… be considered in order to theorize racialization and clans formation in a changing world. There are material and ideological consequences for Vietnamese and Asian American youth gang formation in Southern California, including local, state, and national policy implications. A major concern is …
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Silence and Invisibility: A Feminist Case Study of Domestic Violence in the Lives of Five Korean-American Women
… of patriarchy within the United States and Korea produce numerous manifestations of the internalization of male domination such that domestic violence was sustained and perpetuated throughout the experiences of domestic violence in the women's lives. Moreover, the patriarchal structure …
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Funding Criteria as an Impediment to the Reintegrative Model in Community Based Corrections for Juveniles: A Casestudy
The purpose of this project was two-fold: (1) to provide an example of the impact of an extra-agency factor upon community based corrections, thereby (2) demonstrating the importance of including extra-agency factors in the research design of evaluative research examining community based …
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Policy Advocacy Parameters and Change in Three Occupational/reform Organizations, 1870-1976: A Comparative Content Analysis of the Policy Advocacy of the American Correctional Association, the International Association of Chiefs of Police and the National Council on Crime and Delinquency
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1983.
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