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Beyond the Adversarial Rivalry: A Developmental Rights‐Based Model for Minor‐on‐Minor Crime, Part 2

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT When children harm children, the conventional victim–perpetrator framework is ill‐equipped to address the developmental, relational, and institutional complexities involved. While juvenile justice scholarship increasingly emphasizes rehabilitation, and victims' rights literature has advanced child‐sensitive protections, minor‐on‐minor ...
Tali Gal, Ruthy Lowenstein Lazar
wiley   +1 more source

Improving parenting skill through the strong families program in Thailand

open access: yesArchives of Public Health
Background The Strong Families program has been successfully implemented in multiple low- and middle-income countries. However, Thailand has only recently begun exploring the program’s potential.
Nida Buawangpong   +13 more
doaj   +1 more source

Decision Theory and Proof Standards for Future Crimes: Possible Uses and Open Questions

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT What should be the proof standard for applying preventive criminal sanctions based on an establishment of risk of reoffending? This is an open question in legal systems around the world. Various authors suggest that we can answer it by using decision theory. This approach conceptualises the proof standard as a probabilistic threshold. A person
Hylke Jellema, Johannes Bijlsma
wiley   +1 more source

Regulating crime prevention design into consumer products: learning the lessons from electronic vehicle immobilisation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Foreword Despite significant reductions in recent years, acquisitive property crime remains the single largest crime category, with over 700,000 offences recorded annually by police in Australia.
Rick Brown
core  

The Association Between Perpetration of Relational Aggressive Tendencies and Adolescent Antisocial Behavior

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Most research on relational aggression has primarily examined these behaviors among children, with limited exploration of its developmental progression during early adolescence and its associations with antisocial behaviors such as alcohol use, physical aggression, and rule‐breaking conduct.
Briana Amador   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Legal Professionals Use an Implicit Checklist to Assess Expert Witness Credibility

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In a court of law, some forms of evidence are too technical to interpret without the help of an expert witness. However, expert testimony sometimes leads to wrongful conviction. We used an online survey to quantitatively compare how legal professionals (n = 122) and lay people (n = 109) understood what makes an expert witness credible.
Mahensingh Deonaran   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Controlling embezzlement in Kuwait through situational crime prevention

open access: yesJournal of Economic Criminology
The literature on the causes of corruption has been preoccupied with the corrupt individual or the socio-political and economic contexts in which corruption occurs.
Khaled S. Al-Rashidi
doaj   +1 more source

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