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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"serious offenders"”.
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Unusual suspects: identifying active serious offenders by self-selection policing
… to identify minor offences indicative of more serious criminality, whereby the serious offender volunteers him or herself for warranted police attention by dint of committing a minor (often considered innocuous) infraction of the law. In early chapters a conceptual and theoretical underpinning …
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DOES PRESIDENTIAL POLICY CHANGE FEDERAL IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT? DOCUMENTING THE SEVERITY OF ALLEGED OFFENCES BY ICE IMMIGRATION ARRESTEES IN THE OBAMA AND TRUMP ADMINISTRATIONS
… to enforcement priorities led to more (or less) serious offenders being arrested by federal authorities in relation to those policies. Using an innovation from policing literature known as the crime harm index (CHI), analysis showed little difference in arrestee crime from before to during and …
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Community service in Uganda as an alternative to imprisonment: a case study of Masaka and Mukono districts
… overcrowding. An additional problem is that some offenders come out of prison having been negatively affected by their interaction with even more serious offenders. This study was undertaken to establish whether community service as an alternative to imprisonment can be effective with regard to …
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The South African Child Justice Bill : an investigation into diversion processes for children
… regard to the disposal and treatment of child offenders. The research will provide insight into the decision-making that affects the process of diversion in child justice in South Africa. The Bill, when enacted, will provide for a new child justice regime that will meet South Africa's …
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Criminal careers and restorative justice
… justice conferences. Burglary and robbery offenders and victims who agreed to participate in the trial were randomly assigned to either a face to face conference (experimental) in addition to normal court processing or to a control condition where their case proceeded as usual through …
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An analysis of the legal response to children who commit serious crimes in South Africa
… in cases where children committed very serious offences such as murder and rape. This dissertation concludes that, although alternative sentences are appropriate sentences for serious offences, courts still impose custodial sentences for these types of offences, and that the seriousness …
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The criminal career profile : a measure of criminal careers
… achieving the reduction of criminal careers of serious, repeat offenders. Despite its conceptual simplicity, however, criminal career is often treated as having no depth or scope, for example, merely as the number of crimes or length of prison sentence. These indices often give no or little …