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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"criminal offending"”.
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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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Organized Crime: An Ethnographic study of the monitoring and disrupting of those designated as high-level ‘organized criminals’ within the Metropolitan Police
… a project 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 …
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Unemployment, Economic Activity and Crime Rates: A Reexamination From an Opportunity Perspective
… 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 considered. First, …
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The Prevalence of Traumatic Brain Injury and an Investigation of Behavioural, Emotional and Executive Functioning in a Sample of Male Young Offenders
… describes significant associations between criminal offending behaviour and traumatic brain injury (TBI). In young offenders, particularly, TBI is significantly more prevalent than in the general youth population. This association might be explained by the fact that key TBI sequelae (e.g., …
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Callous Unemotional Traits and Patterns of Antisocial Behavior Among Female Juvenile Offenders
… (CU) traits on the aggressive behavior and criminal offending of female juveniles committed to a secure juvenile justice facility. A history of physical abuse was examined as a potential moderator of these relationships. The deviant behaviors of peers were examined with respect to the …
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Adult Criminal Offenders Recollection Of Childhood Exposure To Trauma And Its Impact
… childhood exposure to trauma and subsequent criminal offending by adults who have experienced childhood trauma<strong>. </strong>This study was conducted with 18 participants through one-on-one semi-structured interviews that explored the perceived lived experiences, understandings, and …
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The validity and reliability of the violence risk scale-youth version (VRS-YV)
… three measures significantly postdicted violent offending, that is, youth who were repeat violent offenders tended to score significantly higher on each of the measures, than first time violent youth (i.e., those who had no previous history of violence). Similar postdiction was observed for …
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A Comparative Analysis of Self-Control and Psychopathy
… as measured in their ability to predict future offending. Therefore, the focus of this thesis is to observe how various scales of self-control and psychopathy relate with one another at both the total and facet level. The data used for analysis was pulled from the 2000-2003 Pathways to …
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Prisoner, prison and situational characteristics and their relationship with the prevalence, incidence and type of prison offending recorded by a sample of prisoners within Western Australian prisons
… has generated a number of studies of prison offending. Previous studies have identified several prisoner, prison and situational characteristics as relevant in regard to their relationship with the prevalence, incidence and type of prison offences committed. However, no studies have been …