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Showing 1 to 20 of 166 for “"criminality"”.
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CRIME, CRIMINALITY & SOCIAL REVOLUTION
This thesis focuses on the life work of a man named Jacque Fresco. This man is currently in his late 90’s and has had a colourful past. His influence is global - he has started social uprisings, orchestrated political campaigns, toured the world as part of a lecture series and featured in several …
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Crime, criminality, and gangs
… 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, and …
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Criminality Groups and Substance Abuse
This descriptive study was designed to determine whether substance abusers could be differentially characterized by past involvement in crimes and, further, whether there is a relationship between the type of substance abused and the degree of violence of the crimes committed. By comparing the …
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Fame, Sex and Other Types of Criminality
… manuscript titled 'Fame, Sex and Other Types of Criminality' and, second, an essay discussing ideas used in the creation of the novel. The novel uses ironic and satiric devices to explore aspects of the culture of narcissism in contemporary Australia. The plot sees a group of characters set out …
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Ink impressions: public perceptions of tattoos and criminality
… the relationship between tattoos and perceived criminality. In addition, this study examines whether religion plays a role in these perceptions and if participants view the media as a factor in making tattoos more acceptable within our society. Corollary questions address the role in which …
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Female criminality: toward a clarification of sex-role influence
… sex-role attitudes has been utilized as an criminality (Adler, explanation for increasing 1975; Hoffman-Bustamante, female 1973; Steffensmeier, 1980; Simon, 1975). Despite the paucity of evidence, the women's movement has been held suspect by the suggestion that changing sex-roles result in …
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Acting Black: An Analysis of Blackness and Criminality in Film
… exploitation, appropriation, whiteness and the criminality of the black body. While not entirely the root of the negative perceptions of African-Americans in the United States, the manner in which African-Americans are portrayed in motion picture media influences how their presence is seen in …
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Risk-taking, thinking styles, and criminality: A fuzzy-trace theory perspective
<p>Preferred modes of thinking, otherwise known as biases, have been well documented in adult reasoning and decision-making (Evans, 2003; Gilovich, Griffin, & Kahneman, 2002; Reyna & Brainerd, 2011; Tversky & Kahneman, 1986). Researchers have explained these biases by proposing that the basis for …
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Intimate Partners in Crime: Utilizing Life Course to Examine Female Criminality
… indicated a positive relationship between criminality and delinquent male counter-parts when defined as a significant other. Furthermore, female inmate’s cohabitation with a delinquent significant other was associated with poor relationship ‘stability’ and with illicit substance abuse …
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Toward an integrated explanation of female criminality: the deprivation-compensation model
… power of the deprivation-compensation model of criminality. This new model of crime commission incorporates two social psycholoical constructs - relative deprivation and limited rationality - which partially mediate the relationship between structural and interpersonal deprivation and the type …
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Jailbreakers, Villains, and Vampires: Representations of Criminality in Early-Victorian Popular Texts
… Villains, and Vampires: Representations of Criminality in Early-Victorian Popular Texts</em>, I analyze moments of discursive dissonance that emerge through the juxtaposition of early-Victorian theories of criminality and representations of criminals in popular culture. In the 1830s and …
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Attitudes of suspicion, perceptions of criminality and willingness to report Muslims in Canada
… attitudes of suspicion, perceptions of criminality and willingness to report Muslims vs. control suspects. In Study 1, 216 students from a Canadian university read about a suspicious event involving Muslims vs. control, conducted by Muslim and non-Muslim experimenters. In Study 2, 192 …
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Criminality of women in the 18th century in the South West of England
… to the study of eighteenth-century female criminality in this region. It argues that the region constituted a pastoral rural economy; and it is within this context that the recorded criminal activities of women should be seen. The discussion develops, using the work of scholars who have …
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Black Male Emerging Adults: Investigating Inequalities in Adult Transitions, Social Learning, and Criminality
… and which has implications for life course criminality and identity formation (Massoglia & Uggen 2010). Much research has been done in the area of the new life stage known as “emerging adulthood,” however little to no research has been done on how emerging adulthood relates to or changes …
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Decolonial delinquency: Gender, sexuality, and criminality in Latina/o gang literature and film
… studies the representation of violence and criminality in Latina/o literature and film since 1950. The project analyzes a range of genres, including fiction, autobiography, poetry, and documentary, to uncover how cultural production discloses a systemic impetus to gang violence in …
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Interactionist Labeling: A Structural Equation Model of Formal Labeling, Juvenile Delinquency, and Adult Criminality
… concerning juvenile delinquency and adult criminality, and presents a structural equation model utilizing the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health). The labeling perspective is outlined as it was originally presented, and the theoretical elaborations that have taken …
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The social construction of female criminality : women, mental health, and the criminal justice system
… there is a rational connotation attached to the criminality of males. I believe the social construction of womanhood and of a woman's natural place within a patriarchal society was further determined as capitalism gained momentum in the latter half of the 19 th century. Yet, I also believe gender …
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The Merits of Money and "Muscle": Essays on Criminality, Elections and Democracy in India
… interests most credibly. In such settings, criminality can serve as a useful signal of a candidate's credibility. As a result, parties selectively field criminal candidates in those areas where social divisions are most pronounced. The implications of this study are far reaching because they …
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The Relationship between Involvement, Strain, and the Criminality of Fathers of At-Risk Children
… attention was given to how this may affect adult criminality as well. Similarly, Hirschi (1969) presented social control theory as a means of describing the causes of juvenile delinquency. While these theories have been repeatedly tested and supported with respect to delinquency, they have rarely …
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