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From 15,000 to near zero: Cuyahoga County's eight‐year effort to address lawfully “owed” DNA

Journal of Forensic Sciences, EarlyView.
Abstract This study presents the final outcomes of an eight‐year, countywide initiative to address “lawfully owed” DNA (LODNA) among individuals who should have had a DNA sample in the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) following a qualifying arrest or conviction but did not.
Rachel E. Lovell, Mary C. Weston, Duoduo Huang   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Neutralisation techniques used by defendants charged with animal welfare offences in Finland. [PDF]

Anim Welf
Valtonen E, Hänninen L, Valros A, Koskela T.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Can prisons move people into better jobs? A look at correctional vocational training programs and sectoral employment outcomes

Criminology, EarlyView.
Abstract Three‐quarters of US prisons offer vocational training programs, which aim to place trainees in middle‐skills jobs in specific occupational sectors post‐release. These middle‐skills jobs may more effectively reduce recidivism than the jobs that normally characterize the labor market experience of the formerly incarcerated, yet whether ...
Britte van Tiem
wiley   +1 more source

Cohort profile: Understanding the influence of early life environments and health and social service system contacts over time and across generations through the Western Australian Aboriginal Child Health Survey (WAACHS) Linked Data Study. [PDF]

BMJ Open
Mitrou F, Milroy H, Coffin J, Hamilton SL, Brennan-Jones CG, Schurer S, Davis EA, Richmond P, Passmore HM, Pearson G, Brown A, O'Donnell M, Bowen AC, Azzopardi P, Conigrave KM, Downs J, Cooper MM, Ramsey KA, Ferrante A, Johnson SE, Cave L, Vlaskovsky P, Hopkins KD, D'Antoine HA, Wilkes T, Zubrick SR.   +25 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Bound by blood and bloodshed: Sibling ties and participation in genocidal violence

Criminology, EarlyView.
Abstract Focusing on the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, we examine how sibling relationships—one of the most salient familial bonds—influence individual engagement in violence during mass atrocity. Drawing on an adaptation of differential association and social learning theories for contexts of mass atrocity, we analyze a novel dataset linking over 300,000 ...
Jack G. R. Wippell, Hollie Nyseth Nzitatira, Jared F. Edgerton, Evelyn Gertz   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dynamic prediction of reoffending in individuals given community sentences: Development and validation of a novel risk monitoring assessment tool (oxMore). [PDF]

Law Hum Behav
Yukhnenko D, Blackwood N, Lichtenstein P, Fazel S.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Affordances, dread, and online fraud: Exploring and advancing social learning theory in online contexts

Criminology, EarlyView.
Abstract We investigate how the affordances of an online context shape the processes of social learning. Using a dataset of more than 11,000 posts from the fraud subdread on the dark web forum Dread, we examine how affordances of platform governance, connectivity, anonymity, invisibility, asynchronicity, and limited oversight influence the components ...
Fangzhou Wang, Timothy Dickinson
wiley   +1 more source

Preventing Financial Elder Abuse: A Critical Commentary on Harmonisation of Enduring Power of Attorney Laws. [PDF]

Australas J Ageing
Ries N, Tsihlis E, Somes T.
europepmc   +1 more source

Whose decision is it anyway? Defendants’ prior experience shapes prosecutorial case dismissal

Criminology, EarlyView.
Abstract Studies of early case processing outcomes in the United States typically assume that decisions are made unilaterally by the prosecutor, such that prior contact with the legal system is universally associated with harsher outcomes for defendants.
R. R. Dunlea, Miranda A. Galvin
wiley   +1 more source

Moral encroachment and group-to-individual inferences. [PDF]

Philos Stud
Smith M.
europepmc   +1 more source