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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"Violent crimes"”.
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Examining the effect of childhood animal cruelty motives on recurrent adult violent crimes toward humans
… animal cruelty and the later commission of violent crimes (murder, rape, assault, and robbery) against humans. Almost two-thirds of the inmates reported engaging in childhood animal cruelty for fun, whereas almost one-fourth reported being motivated either out of anger or imitation. Only …
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Pastorale versorging van getraumatiseerde slagoffers van geweldmisdaad
… however developed into a cesspool of violence. Violent crime is currently a common factor in everyday life. It is especially the severe nature of the assault and mutilation that makes violent crimes so traumatizing. The aim of this study is to identify the need for counselling of these …
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A instalação de UPS nos bairros de João Pessoa e a redução dos crimes violentos letais intencionais no ano de 2012
… (UPS) and the variation in incidence data (CVLI) Violent Crimes Intentional Lethal in the city of João Pessoa in 2012. We assume that the UPS is at the basis of organizational philosophy, the Police Community whose primary purpose is to promote the approach of police with the local community, …
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Examining the effects of demographic and situational factors on childhood animal cruelty methods
… animal cruelty methods on adult recurrent violent crimes. Logistic regression revealed that those who were younger when they first engaged in animal cruelty were more likely to drown, kick, burn, stab, and have sex with animals. Inmates who were not upset after committing animal cruelty …
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Testing the Continuum of Harm: the Role of Generlized Harassment and Leader Tolerance for Sexual Harassment in Predicting Survivor Outcomes
… harassment and assault in the U.S. military, violent crimes, such as the murder of Army Specialist Vanessa Guillen by a fellow solder at the Army base in Fort Hood in Texas in 2020, have not stopped. While not all incidents of sexual harassment are violent, the DoD’s continuum of harm model is …
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Economic Analyses of Crime in England and Wales
… for cointegrating relationships between property crimes and unemployment as well as law enforcement instruments. We extend our study by employing panel data and corresponding techniques to control for area-specific fixed effects as well as the endogeneity of law enforcement variables. In our third …
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Newspaper framing of indicted U.S. athletes: Evaluating orientation, prominence and proximity
… athletes amid allegations that they committed violent crimes. This can be accomplished by analyzing media coverage from a common national newspaper and through various newspapers local to the athlete’s team or the area where the alleged crime took place.The overarching research question of this …
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The Relationship Between Treatment Programs and Recidivism With African American Delinquents Under the Age of 14
… higher percentage ofjuveniles who committed violent crimes received moderate/strong-counseling-intensity treatments than juveniles who committed nonviolent crimes. Also, a significantly higher percentage of juveniles who committed violent crimes had family participation in therapy than did …
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The analysis of the artefacts produced by forensically significant blowfly (Diptera: Calliphoridae) activity and their effect on bloodstain pattern analysis
Violent crimes involving bloodshed may result in bloodstains spattering on the surrounding surfaces. Accurate analysis of bloodstains at the scene can provide investigators with insights into the series of events that occurred during the execution of a violent crime. At a crime scene, blowflies …
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Multisystemic therapy across the lifespan : a 21.9-year follow-up to a randomized clinical trial with serious and violent juvenile offenders
… and civil court outcomes of 176 serious and violent juvenile offenders who had participated in either multisystemic therapy (MST) or individual therapy (IT) in a randomized clinical trial (Borduin et al., 1995). Data on criminal arrests, incarceration, and civil court involvement were …
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Mexican Transnational Criminal Organizations, Terrorist Tactics, and the Threat to the United States
… these organizations was conducted. Additionally, violent crime statistics were analyzed to determine if these groups were increasing their presence in the U.S. The results suggest border violence may be spilling over; more violent crimes occur closer to the border region compared to cities …
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Utilização do geoprocessamento no mapeamento criminal na região metropolitana de João Pessoa – PB.
… were made of the numbers of intentional lethal violent crimes (ILVC) by cities of the metropolitan region as well as by gender and neighborhoods of João Pessoa. As result, there was a panorama of the current situation of the metropolitan region according to the numbers of homicides that occurred …
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Intimate Partner Violence Survivors: The Relationship between Risk Factors and Symptom Severity
While violent crimes have been on a decline since 2005, domestic violence has been increasing steadily over the past decade (Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2005, 2013, and 2014). A number of adult and childhood risk factors are associated with the increased likelihood of intimate partner violence …
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What You See is What They Want You to See: South African Newspaper Constructions of Female Offenders
… the stories of female offenders of violent crimes and crimes against children more than perpetrators of financial and drug-related crimes. The study concludes that South African newspapers reinforce gender-role stereotyping and perpetuate the misrepresentation of female offenders …
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Assessing the Impact of Increased Police Officer Presence In Micro Hot Spots
… for its high volume of calls for service and violent crimes year around. This effort was part of the Kansas City Strategies for Policing Innovation (SPI) that ran from 2017 through 2019. The study specifically sought to provide enough evidence to support this policing style beyond the finality …
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Violations of Protection Orders: Characteristics of Offenders and Criminal Justice Responses
… female offenders, focusing primarily on drug or violent crimes such as homicide, there has been very little that has examined gender differences in domestic violence offenders and violators of protection orders. And even less is known about how the justice system responds to these perpetrators. …
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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Post Traumatic Growth
… those involved in car accidents, and victims of violent crimes. It employs quantitative methods such as the PTSD Checklist (PCL-5) and the Post-Traumatic Growth Inventory (PTGI), along with thematic analysis from 25 semi-structured interviews. The results indicate that PTSD and PTG can coexist; …
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Perceived Burdensomeness, Thwarted Belongingness and Acquired Capability for Suicide: Suicidal Risk Factors in an Incarcerated Population
… Additionally, offenders who have committed violent crimes, are incarcerated in higher security institutions, and have longer sentences are also at increased risk for suicide. Although research has identified risk factors for suicidal behaviors, there has been very little theory-driven …
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Aggressive antisocial behavior- clinical, cognitive, and behavioral covariates of its persistence
… population was responsible for 63% of all violent crimes between 1973 and 2004. Risk factors for persistence of aggressive antisocial behavior included its early onset, conduct disorder, antisocial personality disorder, and substance-related disorders. In the PCL-R, the Antisocial facet …
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Rights, responsibilities and reform: a study of French justice (1990-2016)
… its scope to a case study of the prosecution of violent crimes before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, and discovers significant flaws in procedures even at international levels. In concluding, it asks whether, given the challenges facing the French criminal justice system, French …
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