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Showing 1 to 20 of 190 for “"offence"”.
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Self-preferencing in the digital markets : a new offence under article 102 TFEU?
This research examines the practice of self-preferencing by vertically-integrated digital platforms acting as gatekeepers, and whether such practice may constitute a standalone abuse under article 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU). This study is carried out against …
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Pre- and post-offence behaviours of healthcare serial killers as a confidence game
… this study examines notable pre- and post-offence behaviours of healthcare serial killers. Patterns related to offender etiology, victim cultivation, crime scene behaviour and techniques of evasion were explored. The findings from this study suggest that the pre- and post-offence behaviours …
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Education and Training of Specialist Sexual Offence Investigators in Victoria, Australia from 2009 to 2011
… designed for investigators of sexual offences has received little attention from academic researchers to date. Previous studies have not described training provided to police investigators of sexual offences in Australia. This thesis developed Turnley’s Framework for the Examination of …
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Predictors of recidivism in a population of Canadian sex offenders: Psychological, physiological, and offence factors.
… between psychological, physiological and offence variables and recidivism in a sample of 588 sexual offenders assessed at the Sexual Behaviours Clinic (SBC) of the Royal Ottawa Hospital between the years 1983 and 1992, and who were convicted of a contact sexual offence. The 588 sexual …
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An assessment of the suitability of the criminal cartel offence in South African competition law
… The underlying justification for the cartel offence is the protection of consumer welfare and on the other hand to address the under-deterrent nature of monetary administrative penalties in the fight against cartels. In its current form, s73A has several weaknesses which will negatively …
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Serial robbery: An investigation into the variations of offence behaviour and implications for inferring offender characteristics
… to what extent the thematic structure of robbery offence behaviours identified in L. Alison, W. Rockett, S. Deprez & S. Watts, 2000 is replicated for an Australian sample of serial robbers. Offence variables representing variations in the degree of planning (proactive-reactive) and self-control …
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Evaluating the role of DNA evidence in sexual offence cases in Zambia between 2007 and 2014
… in recent years. Zambian law categorises sexual offences into; rape, defilement, incest and others, with defilement constituting the majority of the cases (>89%). Between 2010 and 2012, only <39% of defilement cases were taken to court, and convictions were achieved in only 13% of the cases …
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Exploring the impact of sex and offence history on moral reasoning in adults with mild intellectual disabilities.
… a cross-sectional 2 (Sex: Men vs Women) X 2 (Offence history: Offenders vs Non-Offenders) between-subjects design, 68 adults with mild ID from secure settings and community settings were recruited. In addition to an assessment of intellectual functioning, participants completed the Socio-Moral …
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Queer(y)ing the Politics of Offence: An Exploration of the Phenomenological Texture of Feeling in Higher Education
… from such diagnoses of the ‘problem’ of taking offence ‘too easily’ is any empirical analysis of how offence is experienced, understood, and responded to by those social subjects who describe themselves as ‘offended’. This thesis seeks to remedy that absence by demonstrating the disconnect …
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An Analysis of Defilement: Role,performance and Efficacy of the Law Enforcement Mechanisms and the Sopport System dealing with the sexual offence
… was seized with the task of analyzing the offence of defilement in Zambia and generally ascertaining and establishing the structures that address the offence of defilement at the same time, the role, performance and efficacy of these institutions dealing with the sexual offence was …
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Community attitudes and the role of the victim offender relationship in child sexual abuse cases
… within these relationships on perceptions of offence seriousness and emotional and physical harm, for the offence of indecently dealing with a 14-year old girl. One hundred and sixty community members used a 7- point scale to rate the degree of trust within these relationships, the seriousness …
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Children and the Law: How Does Early Contact with Law Enforcement Predict Severity and Frequency of Offending Later in Life?
… factors on predicting involvement in offence type categories (Non-Violent; Violent; Sexual) in samples of children before and after the age of criminal responsibility (age 12). The sample comprised 2,862 Canadians (1,732; 61% male and 1,123; 39% female) between the ages of 0 and 18, …
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Shame, guilt, and denial in offenders
… capacity and perspective-taking; and five offence-related factors: Acknowledging responsibility, Distress and rejection, Minimisation of harm, Lack of negative emotion, and Functions of denial. Study 3 was conducted with 349 male and 196 female offenders, and coping styles were examined. It …
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Sexual offenders : differences between those who commit offences against children and those who commit offences against adults
… into differences between those who commit sexual offences against children and those who commit sexual offences against adults. All available court sentences of sentenced male sexual offenders in Iceland from the year 2015 to 2019, were investigated, a total of 89 cases. Factors that were studied …
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Kriminalistinė nusikalstamos veikos analizė /
… levels: as criminalistic characteristics of offences common to all types of offences and as criminalistic characteristics of individual groups and types of offences. The elements constituting the structure of criminalistic criminal act and their correlation ties are also analysed. The …
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The Moral Foundations of Fair Labelling
… concerned with the just allocation of blame in offence (i) naming (ii) differentiation, and (iii) persistence or duration. The first two chapters examine the concept of a criminal label and its relationship to punishment. I argue here that criminal labelling is not simply concerned with offence …
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Multivariate Analysis of War Crime Behaviour: Implications for the International Criminal Court
… (ICC) must connect the physical actions of the offence and ‘most responsible’ offenders charged with planning, instigating and intent on carrying out crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and crimes of aggression. To date there has been no empirical study of the types of …
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Baudžiamoji atsakomybė už dokumento suklastojimą ar disponavimą suklastotu dokumentu /
… or possession of a forged document as a criminal offence in Lithuania and in selected foreign countries (Germany, France, England), on the basis of criminal laws, jurisprudence and doctrine. It also provides a historical analysis of the origins and further development of the offence in Lithuania. …
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I'm Not That Person: A Qualitative Study of Moral Injury in Forensic Psychiatric Patients
… who were mentally ill at the time of offence and in which the act itself may reflect behaviour that is uncharacteristic of the individual. Theoretical and clinical reports describe a phenomenon termed moral injury which profiles the deleterious emotional effects that can arise from …
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Variables predictive of assessment and treatment outcome in adult sex offenders in Western Australia
… information, offender characteristics and offence details. The results indicated little differences between those offenders who entered treatment and those offenders who did not enter treatment. Only two variables, marital status and prior non-sex violent offences appear to discriminate …
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