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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Victims of crime"”.
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The effect of violent video game playing on gamer's views of victims of crime
… violent video game play and attitudes towards victims. As the violent genre of games become more popular and as the graphics and content becomes even more realistic and immersive, there has been concern that this media form offers a different perspective on violence to players than more passive …
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The experiences of homeless people as victims of crime in urban and rural settings
… people in society, suffering from acute levels of poverty, social exclusion and violence. Homeless people are often seen as a cause of crime; however, they are in fact more likely to be victims of crime rather than perpetrators. Much of the violence experienced by homeless people is committed by …
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Ireland’s criminal justice system and its response to victims of crime with intellectual disabilities: adversarial procedure on trial
… criminal process addresses the specific needs of victims of crime with intellectual disabilities. By critically analysing the evolution of the adversarial legal tradition, it interrogates the epistemic values which have traditionally been at the heart of Ireland’s criminal justice narrative. …
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Restorative justice as an alternative dispute resolution model: opinions of victims of crime and criminal justice professionals in Nigeria
… in Nigeria (West Africa). It surveys opinions of victims of crime and conflicts, and criminal justice professionals with regard to exploring restorative justice as an Alternative Dispute Resolution Model in the country. The findings of this study are relatively in line with other cross-national …
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An exploratory study on the experiences of female youth victims of crime during load shedding in Site C, Khayelitsha
… in daily disruptions affecting every sector of life. Load shedding is a planned and temporary disruption of energy supply to specific areas. The present study explored the experiences of crime of female youth during load shedding at night in Site C, Khayelitsha. While there is extensive …
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Alternative to state dominated criminal prosecution in Namibia
… general, are proceedings which in substance are of a criminal nature, and not of a civil nature and include, inter alia, applications for a stay of prosecution and release from detention, etc. The constitution of the Republic of Namibia protects the rights of all persons including the rights of …
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Unemployment, Economic Activity and Crime Rates: A Reexamination From an Opportunity Perspective
The purpose of this study is to develop and test a general causal model of criminal activity that accounts for the relationship between unemployment rates and crime rates. The model proposed here argues that when predicting the sign of the unemployment rate two direct and opposing effects must be …
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Witnesses in South Africa, the stepchildren of the criminal justice system
… in the criminal process. The introduction of a justiciable Bill of Rights2 on 27 April 19943 ushered South Africa into a new legal and constitutional dispensation, which in tum affected the criminal justice system profoundly. In fact the criminal process has undergone an intense …
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Social importance of recognizing the victimization for mothers of school shooters
… Laurel Harper, and Parvinder Sandhu as secondary victims of school shooting homicides. With the application of Becker’s (1963) labelling theory, there is an opportunity to examine the potential ramifications these secondary victims suffer as the result of the shootings, in addition to examining if …
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La violencia de género en el sistema penal. Aproximación desde una perspectiva victimológica en la Comunidad Autónoma de La Rioja
The relevance of the digital asset and the remarkable increase in its use in recent years reframe the social dimension of gender-based violence as a complex problem. In order to analyze this reframe, it is necessary to define its concept. From its social and psychological implications, this paper …
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Biased policing, martyrdom, white gratitude & brown pain: media narratives surrounding the Bruce McArthur case
… Upon McArthur’s 2018 arrest, allegations of racial bias and homophobia against Toronto Police resurfaced, questioning the safety and protection of Toronto’s LGBTQ2SIA+ community. Existing research on news media framing of crime victims lacks to understand how the news media frames queer …
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Public crime, private justice : the tale of how one of South Africa’s top private investigators gets impressive results and what lessons the men and women of the public police force and the SAPS as an institution might learn from this
The role of the police is a fundamental one in any society and in South Africa this role is beset with a unique set of challenges which are organisational, institutional, operational, individual and political in nature. It is these I address by means of examining the South African Police Service …
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Victim-defense attorney interactions in court: the defense attorney perspective
Despite substantial research focusing on victims of crime and their interactions with various criminal justice professionals, few studies have explored the relationship between victims and defense attorneys. Understanding these interactions is critical to developing positive interactions between …
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The Mediation of Personal Distress on Negative Television News and Donations
… affect, empathy, and donation behavior. A series of models were conducted to analyze the data. A one-way between groups ANOVA showed that participants in the local victim news condition donated more money to a crime victim charity than participants in the nonlocal victim news condition, the far …
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The Postmortem Interval: A Systematic Study of Pig Decomposition in West Central Montana
… postmortem interval (PMI) is an important piece of information used by forensic and criminal investigators to help investigate crimes and other unattended deaths. Time since death estimations assist law enforcement in providing a reference with which to compare a suspects alibi, identify victims …
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The Postmortem Interval: A Systematic Study of Pig Decomposition in West Central Montana
… postmortem interval (PMI) is an important piece of information used by forensic and criminal investigators to help investigate crimes and other unattended deaths. Time since death estimations assist law enforcement in providing a reference with which to compare a suspects alibi, identify victims …
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The Effectiveness of Restorative Justice Practices: How to Restore Justice for At-Risk Youth
… Criminal Justice Statistics (2007), the cost of maintaining juvenile correctional facilities is expensive for state governments and its taxpayers to support. The conventional way of dealing with youth crimes in society is to punish the offender. The punishment of convicted juvenile offenders …
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An in-depth investigation into the safety of Nyanga's public spaces from a gender-sensitive perspective.
… been viewed as subordinate to men. This is often centred around social perceptions of the different genders and is especially apparent in modern-day leadership, policymaking and managerial roles, where roles are often set aside for men. In the Cape Town township of Nyanga, three public …
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Detecting Masculinity: The Positive Masculine Qualities of Fictional Detectives.
Detective fiction highlights those qualities of masculinity that are most valuable to a contemporary culture. In mysteries a cultural context is more thoroughly revealed than in any other genre of literature. Through the crimes, an audience can understand not only the fears of a particular society …
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Matching provision to needs : the example of victim support
The current study is an evaluation of a voluntary sector service, Victim Support. The focal points of this work are the impact of crime upon victims and the extent to which they feel that Victim Support, as a service provider, has helped to restore their sense of equilibrium. In this way the …
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