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Showing 1 to 20 of 307 for “"offending"”.
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Adolescent property offending and socialisation
A stable aspect of adolescent property offending has been coincidence of the peak age of such offences with the last year of compulsory schooling. This fact is taken as the focus of three epidemiological analyses. These were: 1. A survey of child welfare records of adolescent property offences for …
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Understanding desistance from sexual offending
… against children desisted from further sexual offending. The research employed a qualitative methodology aimed at gaining a phenomenological understanding of participants' perceptions of the desistance process. A total of 32 participants were interviewed using a semi-structured life story …
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Pathways to Offending: Domestic Sex Trafficking
<p>Multidisciplinary professionals across criminal justice, public policy, education, and health and</p> <p>human services have all attempted to understand the complex phenomenon of sex trafficking to assist victims, correct offenders, and prevent future abuse. However, current research has …
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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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Risk factors for offending: A developmental approach
… to identify the risk and protective factors for offending primarily in juveniles; however this research has not extended to high security adult offenders who represent the most significant risk to society. This thesis utilised previously researched risk factor models to identify developmental …
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Title Investigation of the moral reasoning of offending and non-offending adolescents using the sociomoral reflection measure-short form
… investigation of the moral reasoning of male offending and male and female non-offending adolescents in the UK using the Sociomoral Reflection Measure-Short Form (Gibbs, Basinger & Fuller, 1992). In Chapter I a review of the research relevant to field of study was presented. In Chapter 2 …
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The victimization-offending relationship from a longitudinal perspective
Contains fulltext : 159222.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Adolescent sexual offending. Prevalence, risk factors and outcome.
… thesis is to explore the prevalence of sexually offending behaviour among female and male adolescents in Sweden. One aim is to identify potential risk factors associated with sexually offending behaviour and a further aim to examine the outcome in early adulthood for a sample of sexually …
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Asperger Syndrome and perceived offending conduct: a qualitative study
As a qualitative study using participant narrative as data this work includes both naturalist and constructivist traditions in analysis. The study examines interviews of fourteen individuals with a diagnosis of Asperger syndrome (AS) all of whom had been arrested. Interviews were conducted …
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The dynamics of female offending: case studies in Scotland.
This research examines female offending in Scotland, and assesses our current understanding of its nature and causes. It acknowledges the importance of work carried out in the area of female criminality in the last twenty years, but stresses that our knowledge of the subject is still limited in …
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Adolescent Offending: How Growing Up Disadvantaged Matters Across Immigrant Generations
… variety of social problems, including adolescent offending. While poverty and disadvantage tend to increase adolescent offending, this does not appear true among foreign-born populations. Indeed, the foreign-born are less involved in offending than the native-born suggesting disadvantage is not a …
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Trajectories and Transitions: Exploration of Gender Similarities and Differences in Offending
… analysis to model and compare patterns of offending over time for males and females by: (1) identifying qualitative dimensions of offending; (2) modeling how patterns of offending change over time; and (3) exploring factors related to patterns of offending. This is a secondary analysis of …
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Men, society and crime : an exploration of maleness and offending behaviour
This thesis is the culmination of years of wondering why we ask people to 'be' certain things. One of the first things you notice about people is their keenness to be able to categorise things, so quickly human beings become men and women, criminal or non-criminal, healthy or sick. To deal with the …
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The relationship between attachment and offending within a South African context
… documented a link between attachment and offending. Despite South Africa's high crime rate, research within this country's socio-political context has been limited. This current study aimed to fill this gap, by examining the association between attachment and offending within a South …
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Investigating sex differences in, and predictors of, violent and nonviolent offending behaviour
… the generalist or specialist theories of offending by examining the overlap of, sex differences in, and predictors of intimate partner violence (IPV), general violence and nonviolent offending. IPV is typically studied separately from other types of crime as it is perceived to be a …
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An investigation into the risk and protective factors associated with youth offending
… and protective factors associated with youth offending and how these have been applied to legislation, prevention and intervention. The first chapter reviews current trends in youth offending and approaches to treatment and interventions with young offenders. The second chapter reviews current …
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Exploring the risk factors associated with youth offending behavior in Cape Town
… explored the risk factors associated with youth offending behaviour in Cape Town, in order to suggest, from a social development point of view, preventive measures that address the risk factors from an outset. The sample that was used consisted of twenty reforming youth offenders (fifteen males …
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Bridging the Gap: Understanding non-offending parental responses to their children's sexual abuse.
… prompt acceptance versus disbelief among the non-offending parent (NOP) is vital to children's success following disclosure given the weight of the NOPs response and its impact on long-term consequences of CSA. This literature review provides a comprehensive summary of what may deter the NOP from …
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