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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Violent offenders"”.
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Re-examining typologies of sexually violent offenders
… study assessed a classification of sexual offenders from combinations of crime scene evidence and case data. It sought to contribute a unique perspective to the sexual offender typology literature by utilizing data obtained from the Violent Criminal Apprehension Program (ViCAP) database—a …
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Mandated Anger Management from the Perspective of Violent Offenders
<p>Anger management is a mandated treatment for violent offenders (VOs) in Harlem, New York returning from prison under parole supervision. This dissertation asks VOs to describe their experiences with parole-mandated anger management (AM). The objectives of this research are to help illuminate the …
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An Exploration of Impediments to Attachment in a Juvenile Offender Population: Comparisons between Juvenile Sex Offenders, Juvenile Violent Offenders And Juvenile Non-Sex, Non-Violent Offenders
… solely upon adjudicating offense: Juvenile non-violent, non-sexual offenders (JNVNSO, n=1149), Juvenile violent, non-sexual offenders (JVNSO, n=1433) and Juvenile sexual offenders (JSO, n=366). Results indicated that JSOs differed from JNVNSOs and JVNSOs in their histories of sexual abuse as …
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The intergenerational transmission of violence? : The self-report of physical abuse in childhood among violent and non-violent offenders
… the parental disciplinary history of male offenders to explore the relationship between report of childhood physical abuse and subsequent violent offending, based on the concept of intergenerational transmission of violence. The study also examined the relationship between reports of …
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Food deserts, crime, and neighborhood context: an examination of the impact of food insecurity on violent crime in Little Rock
… concentrated disadvantage, and distribution of violent offenders through the lens of social disorganization. Data gathered by the Little Rock Police Department, American Community Survey, and city business license records are used to test neighborhood-level relationships across Little Rock, …
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Predictors of recidivism in adolescent offenders
<p>Adolescent offenders commit a significant number of physical and sexual assaults every year. A critical task for researchers and clinicians is to understand the distinct pathways that lead to these serious types of offending. The current study attempts to test the importance of these different …
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Empathy, mental state recognition, and violent behaviour: the influence of situated context
… be of practical use in preventing or reducing violent offending behaviour, and addresses the limitations of trait approaches which have hindered previous research and practice within the field. An exploratory, multi-modal design facilitated analysis of data from multiple forensic settings, …
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Risk and prediction of violent crime in forensic psychiatry
Objective: To test the predictive accuracy for violent recidivism of the age at onset of substance abuse, the platelet MAO-B activity, and various combinations of criminological and clinical risk factors among violent offenders in a prospective Swedish follow-up study. Subjects: One hundred violent …
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Police Officers' Perception of the Validity of the General Theory of Crime.
… self-control traits are present in property and violent offenders. Measurement is also performed to determine variation in officers agreement based on the personal characteristics gender, age, education, experience, and rank.</p><p>Findings indicate officers show agreement with self-control items …
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Incarcerated writers search for narrative connections beyond prison walls in hope of writing a more humane and just world
… justify offering educational programs to violent offenders, recidivism rates constitute a racially biased metric that does not capture the more heuristic aspects of carceral education and the far community-reach of college-in-prison programs. This study examines the life experiences of …
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Transferring Juveniles To The Adult Court: A Factorial Survey Of Florida Prosecutors
… impact and shape the course of the lives of the offenders whom they prosecute. This is certainly true for juvenile offenders considered for transfer to the adult court. Previous research indicates that serious, violent offenders are the most likely to be transferred to the adult court. However, …
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An ex post facto evaluation of the Philadelphia GunStat model
… identifying locations with a high incidence of violent crime, (2) pinpointing violent offenders responsible for these crimes, (3) focusing on arresting and prosecuting these offenders for crimes committed at these places, and (4) enhanced monitoring of offenders on probation and parole who are …
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THE EFFECT OF SUSPENDED SENTENCES ON RECIDIVISM AND PROMOTING REHABILITATION IN SRI LANKA: COMPARATIVE INSIGHTS FROM ACROSS SELECTED JURISDICTIONS
… on reducing recidivism and rehabilitating the offenders in Sri Lanka, analyzing the legal frameworks and sentencing practices of Germany, France, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, England, and Wales, concerning the imposition and implementation of suspended sentences. Focusing on Sri Lanka, the …
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Death among a cohort of prisoners in New South Wales Australia — a data linkage study
… admitted to prison psychiatric hospital, repeat offenders and those in the early stage of followup were at increased risk of mortality. Violent offenders were overrepresented in suicide figures and property offenders in death from overdose. Minority groups, in particular men, had a lower risk of …
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Human Genetics, Psychotropic Drugs, and Acts of Violence
… in existing mood disorders, and extremely violent and bizarre acts of suicide and homicide. In this research, it is hypothesized that the pharmacological properties of the prescribed drugs or the interaction between the drugs and the enzymes that are primarily responsible for their …
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The Impact of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy on the Recidivism of High Risk Probationers: Results from a Randomized Trial
… the supervision and management of serious and violent offenders. Attempts to increase the frequency and severity of conditions of supervision have not resulted in meaningful decreases in crime rates among this population. Some encouraging results, however, have been observed when a treatment …
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Learning about the criminal justice protagonists: a content analysis of gender messages in the crime film genre
… commission of crime, and commission of nonviolent crime. The films closely represented the official data in regard to male and female violent offenders with a small overrepresentation of female violence and an equally small underrepresentation of male violence. Women were underrepresented …
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