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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"victims and offenders"”.
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Human trafficking and the media: Comparing newspapers' portrayal of victims and offenders
1 PDF file (vii, 108 pages)
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An Etiology of Juvenile Homicide in Dallas, Texas: 1988-1997
… all juveniles involved in a homicide, both victims and offenders, in the city of Dallas, Texas from the years 1988 through 1997. This study addressed several research questions including the identification of risk factors common to both victims and offenders. Data for this study was obtained …
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The Construction of Domestic Violence Among Police Officers
… activists, large lawsuits, research studies, and changes in the law, police departments in the United States have experienced dramatic changes in their response to domestic violence. The purpose of this study is to examine police officers constructions of domestic violence. I argue that …
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Talking as restorative justice : a conversation analysis of victim-offender meetings
… identifying significant asymmetries in the talk, and acknowledging how thiscontributed to achieving restoration. This study used audio-recordings of five restorativejustice meetings organised as victim-offender mediation sessions and including adultoffenders. The recordings were transcribed and …
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Face to Face: A Reflexive Thematic Analysis of Victim-Offender Mediation
… to the retributive justice system in Canada and the world as a whole. RJ has been appropriated from Indigenous knowledge, which is important to recognize. One example of RJ in our present colonial system is victim offender mediation (VOM), which involves the offender(s) meeting the victim(s) …
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Analysis of the factors influencing multiple uses of crime guns: an exploratory study
… States. The characteristics of communities, victims, and offenders have each been used to explain variation in the likelihood and frequency of gun crime. Less attention has been given to the factors associated with multiple uses of crime guns. The current study applies binary logistic …
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The nature of violence: exploring how community and incident characteristics influence the likelihood that gun crimes become multi-victim events
… Goldsmith et al., 2022; Johnson et al., 2021), and firearm-related offending is more pronounced in the U.S. than any other industrialized nation (Carson et al., 2022). A large body of literature has examined the extent to which characteristics of communities, place, victims, and offenders …
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Targeting Domestic Abuse by Mining Police Records
… sourced from multiple police forces in England and Wales. It seeks to address research questions in relation to the extent of repeat and serial abuse, concentration and escalation of harm, and the forecasting of future serious crimes. Using a variety of statistics, it shows that most victims …
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Child abuse and neglect education in schools of nursing in the province of British Columbia and the state of Washington
Child abuse and neglect has been an historical problem which has only entered our consciousness as legislation to protect children has been passed. Public and media awareness has mushroomed along with the number of disclosures and increasingly dramatic stories of abuse and neglect. Nurses, because …
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Investigating the Risk Factors of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) Among Korean Immigrant Women in America
… problem. Due to the underutilization of public and private human and social services due to language barriers, their illegal status, and stigma associated with violence, both victims and offenders of intimate partner violence are rarely captured by either the criminal justice system or public …
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Paauglių vaidmenys emocinio smurto situacijose mokykloje /
… are frequently exposed to emotional violence, and mostly to one of the major forms of the violence - the bullying. A study accomplished in 2002 by the World Health Organization confirmed that even 70 percent of pupils experience emotional violence in Lithuanian schools and only about 20 percent …
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Hidden hurts, healing from within : restorative justice for victims and convicted offenders in Bermuda
… The aim was to explore how RJ can work for victims and incarcerated offenders in Bermuda in regards to the potential for reduction of harm, increasing empathy and as an addition to the existing CJS. Training was provided and partnerships established with the Bermuda Police Service and Prison …
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Judges’ Gender and Judging in China
… employment discrimination, sexual harassment, and reproductive rights. These findings not only advance feminists’ aspirations that female judges can translate symbolic representation into substantive representation of women, but contribute to the long-standing observations about how judges of …