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Material Deprivation, Psychological Distress, and Substance Use Among Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Adolescents: The Mediating Roles of Social Relationships

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Previous research on the mediating role of the quality of social relationships between material deprivation and adolescent health has predominantly utilized samples from mainstream populations to examine mental health outcomes, neglecting the critical need to explore behavioral health outcomes, such as substance use, particularly in ...
Zewei Liu, Ji‐Kang Chen
wiley   +1 more source

Differences in Immediate and Delayed Suggestibility Among Children With Dyslexia and Controls

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The primary aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between dyslexia and suggestibility in children, and the extent to which this relationship is accounted for by performance on Word Tasks. Participants comprised 95 children with dyslexia and 109 controls.
Gisli Gudjonsson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Spatial Analysis Of Assault Patterns In Entertainment Areas Throughout the Waikato using Geographic Information Systems

open access: yes, 2011
Alcohol related violence has long been a matter of social concern. Recent studies investigating the association between assaults and alcohol have found that there are certain places and locations including bars, which are more commonly associated with ...
Hughes, Geoffrey
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The precision, accuracy and efficiency of geographic profiling predictions : a simple heuristic versus mathematical algorithms [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This study compared the precision, accuracy, and efficiency of geographic profiles made by students to those made by mathematical algorithms. After making predictions on 20 maps, each depicting a different offense series, nearly half of the sampled ...
Taylor, Paul   +4 more
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The Tree of Life Synagogue Attack: A Terrorist Radicalization Assessment Protocol‐18 Examination of Pre‐Attack Warnings and Post‐Attack Contagion and Copycat Effects

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This is a retrospective case study of an antisemitic lone actor terrorist who completed the deadliest attack against the Jewish community in American history. The analysis through the lens of the Terrorist Radicalization Assessment Protocol (TRAP‐18) finds that 72% of the warning indicators were present, including four proximal warning ...
Molly Amman, Julia Kupper, J. Reid Meloy
wiley   +1 more source

Some possibilities of spatial analysis of crimes in police work [PDF]

open access: yesNBP: Nauka, bezbednost, policija, 2015
Crime does not occur randomly. It tends to concentrate at particular places for reasons that can be explained in relation to victim and offender interaction and the opportunities that exist to commit crime. If the police knew where crime is concentrated (
Milić Nenad
doaj  

Cognitive Decline on the Bench: A Text Analysis of the Opinions of Justice Stephen Field

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper uses text analysis to understand how cognitive decline affected the opinion writing of Justice Stephen Field over the course of his career. Justice Field is used as a case study because of his lengthy tenure, the fact he did not have law clerks to write opinions for him, and because it is widely known he was senile for the last part
Mikel A. Norris
wiley   +1 more source

“Evil is Real and Attitude is Everything”: Applying Shattered Assumptions Theory to Worldview Changes Following Wrongful Conviction

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Wrongful convictions continue to occur at high rates. Research has revealed that negative posttraumatic cognitive changes are a risk factor for the development and maintenance of posttraumatic stress disorder, yet little research has examined whether exonerees experience posttraumatic cognitive changes, such as changes to their worldview. Thus,
Kathryn A. Thomas   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Detecting domestic violence. [PDF]

open access: yes
Over 90% of the case data from police inquiries is stored as unstructured text in police databases. We use the combination of Formal Concept Analysis and Emergent Self Organizing Maps for exploring a dataset of unstructured police reports out of the ...
Elzinga, Paul   +3 more
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