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Crime, Crime News, and Crime Views

Public Opinion Quarterly, 1981
This paper compares police, newspaper, television, and public images of crime trends for the seven FBI index crimes over time, the relative frequency of occurrence of these offenses, and the characteristics of persons committing them. Media presentations of crime trends over time are found generally Linrelated to trends in police statistics.
Joseph F. Sheley, Cindy D. Ashkins
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Sex Crimes

British Journal of Psychiatry, 1983
Crimes relating to sexual behaviour account for only 1 per cent of all indictable crimes but for half a century sex offenders have been the subject of a disproportionate amount of psychiatric interest and enquiry. The belief, that there is a link between specific mental malfunction and sex offending, as distinct from other forms of offending appears to
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War Crimes

2013
Abstract This chapter focuses on the law of war crimes, which is a criminalized subset of violations of international humanitarian law (IHL). The law of war crimes is a controversial one, not least as states cannot be certain that their nationals will not commit them.
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International crime

2019
Despite the deeply contested nature of international criminal law (ICL), there is almost complete scholarly agreement concerning the nature and consequences of international criminalization. Almost all ICL scholars view an international crime as an act that is directly criminalized by international law itself, making domestic criminalization irrelevant.
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Corporate Crime

The Journal of Legal Studies, 1996
Corporate criminal liability is a relatively new development in American law, although it has been expanding rapidly. We argue that there is no need for corporate criminal liability in a legal system with appropriate civil remedies and that corporate criminal liability in practice produces serious problems of overdeterrence.
Fischel, Daniel R., Sykes, Alan O.
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Hate Crime/Thought Crime

Dissent, 2010
Let's not make this easy. Early in the morning of March 3, 1992, after a long discussion of their racial resentments, John Ayers and Sean Riley set out from their suburban neighborhood of Silver Spring, Maryland, looking for black people to attack. They came upon two black women walking along Georgia Avenue; realizing they were being followed, the ...
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Environmental Crime

2014
To study environmental crime in a perspective of law and economics it is necessary to identify the protected species from an economic point of view, and at the same time to give a legal definition of this kind of criminal behaviour. The list of sanctions and their effective deterrence effects in cases of environmental crime are addressed in the final ...
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Crime forecasters

Science, 2016
Police are turning to big data to stop crime before it happens. But is predictive policing biased—and does it even work?
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