Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"offender characteristics"”.
-
Community-based corrections: Offender characteristics and success in a halfway house
… are most often used to ease the transition of offenders from the prison to the community by providing temporary housing, job placement assistance, and other services. In addition, in many jurisdictions courts are sentencing offenders directly to halfway houses as a part of the conditions of …
-
Serial robbery: An investigation into the variations of offence behaviour and implications for inferring offender characteristics
… of offences obtained from 91 serial robbery offenders using data obtained from police Offence Reports in Western Australia. A Smallest Space Analysis (SSA) tended to support the relevance of these psychological processes to robbery behaviour and considered to offer a meaningful basis for …
-
An Analysis of Location and Offender Characteristics for Motor Vehicle Theft in Texas from 2001 to 2005
… This study answers these questions by examining offender demographic characteristics and the location types most targeted for motor vehicle theft in Texas from 2001 to 2005. The state of Texas was chosen because Texas has continually been ranked second in the Federal Bureau of Investigation's …
-
The current role and contribution of ‘Behavioural Investigative Advisers’ and ‘forensic clinical psychologists’ in the United Kingdom
… crime scene, while the FCP reports focus more on offender characteristics and mental health issues. The FCP reports were significantly higher in utility in terms of potential new investigative leads. There was no significant difference between the BIA and FCP reports in terms of behavioural …
-
Examining the impact of changes in sentencing guidelines and offender demographics on sentencing of white collar offenders
… the current study investigates the impact of offender characteristics, case characteristics, and legally relevant factors on the sentencing outcomes of defendants sentenced under §2B1.1 of the federal sentencing guidelines. Results shows that while gender had no discernable influence on the …
-
College Students’ Punitive Attitudes toward Five Types of Sex Offenders: Examining Factors that Influence Punitive Preferences
… attitudes toward five different types of sex offenders. In addition, various factors that influence college students’ punitive attitudes will be measured in order to assess their significance. Surveys were administered to a total of 809 students at a large southern university. Through the …
-
Teenage serial homicide offenders: a typology.
… literature covers a variety of serial homicide offender classifications, to date, there has been a limited amount of research conducted on teenage serial homicide. Only two studies have attempted to explain teenage serial homicide, and no study has yet to create a typology of the youthful …
-
Does mental context reinstatement mitigate Retrieval Induced Forgetting in eyewitnesses?
… were exposed to a mock-crime involving two offenders. Subsequently, half of the participants received follow-up questioning regarding 5 of 10 possible characteristics for one offender, all participants completed a distractor task, before finally completing a final recall of offender …
-
Immigration and sentencing: does geograhical region of citizenship influence sentence longevity?
… sentencing research has examined the effects of offender characteristics on sentencing outcomes. Most of this research has focused on offender race/ethnicity. Despite the growth of immigration debates in the United States, there is limited knowledge on the role played by citizenship status. The …
-
Restorative Justice and Recidivism: A Meta-Analysis
… in reducing recidivism, as well as what offender characteristics make for the best restorative justice candidates. Analysis indicated that recidivism may be decreased more for adults than juveniles, when there is contact with the direct victim of the offense, and after the offender goes …
-
African American pastors' beliefs and actions regarding childhood incest in the African American community
… community is that both the victim blame and offender characteristics are important in reporting childhood incest to the proper authorities. In addition, the most significant results indicate that the educational level of pastors is very important in the attribution of blame in cases of …
-
African American pastors' beliefs and actions regarding childhood incest in the African American community
… community is that both the victim blame and offender characteristics are important in reporting childhood incest to the proper authorities. In addition, the most significant results indicate that the educational level of pastors is very important in the attribution of blame in cases of …
-
Variables predictive of assessment and treatment outcome in adult sex offenders in Western Australia
… study examines differences between a) sex offenders who entered treatment (N = 117) and those who did not enter treatment (N =51), and b) sex offenders who completed treatment successfully (N = 83) and those who did not complete successfully (N = 22), The two samples were derived from a …
-
Child Abductors Who Have Killed Their Victims: A Theoretical Approach to Spatial Analysis
… gaps pertains to the distances traveled by the offender between key crime locations. The overall aim of this study was to provide information concerning typical travel distances of offenders. This project utilized an archival data set compiled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, National …
-
Juvenile offenders, ‘grave’ crimes and the use of long-term detention : An examination of the law and issues of contemporary criminal justice.
… of law and justice for the most serious juvenile offenders is subjected to rigorous theoretical and empirical scrutiny. At its heart, the study seeks to explain the mechanisms and ramifications of sentencing juveniles to long periods of detention. The cumulative research findings are based on a …
-
Labeling Adult Sex Offenders and Sexually Violent Predators: The Impact of Registration and Community Notification
When released from prison, sex offenders are typically required to register with designated law enforcement officials as a condition of their parole. These officials can warn local community members, organizations, and establishments of the offender's incoming presence. Research indicates that …
-
Child Sexual Abuse and Co-offending in the UK: An Empirical Examination of Characteristics, Crime Commission Processes, and Network Structures
… co-offending, and a review of the offence and offender characteristics is presented. Using the same dataset, a second aim is pursued; to examine victim age and co-offending status as both independent and joint categorisation systems to distinguish between heterogeneous collections of sexual …
-
Correlates of Recidivism: A Study Examining the Differences Between First Time Felony Probationers and Recidivist Felony Probation Offenders
… of this study is to explore the differences and characteristics between first time felony probationer and recidivist felony probation offender. The importance of said studies grows significantly, given current trends of sentencing offenders to probation. Using archived data on random sample of …