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Applying humanitarian principles within forensic medico‐legal investigations to better support families impacted by the MMIWG2+ crisis

Journal of Forensic Sciences, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite growing public awareness and political attention, the crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two‐Spirit People (MMIWG2+) in Canada and the United States remains unresolved. Indigenous families continue to report that the disappearances and deaths of their loved ones are investigated inadequately and without ...
Steff King, Sabine U. Stratton, Gail S. Anderson   +2 more
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Suicides disguised as homicides through weapon concealment: A two‐way copycat phenomenon between fiction and real world

Journal of Forensic Sciences, EarlyView.
Abstract Suicides disguised as homicides present a persistent challenge in forensic case analysis, particularly when the weapon is deliberately removed after discharge. This study investigates the evolution of weapon concealment techniques—specifically the “load‐and‐rope” and “helium balloon‐tied gun” methods—across documented casework, forensic ...
Ernesto Damiani, Alessia Comacchio, Andrea Porzionato   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Firearm sexual homicide offenders: Criminal careers, psychopathology, and offense conduct

Journal of Forensic Sciences, EarlyView.
Abstract Most homicides are firearm‐perpetrated, but in sexual homicide, offenders are more likely to utilize personal weapons (e.g., hands and feet), contact weapons (e.g., blunt object), or edged weapons (e.g., knife) to comport with their fantasy life, motivational states, and psychopathology.
Matt DeLisi, Heng Choon (Oliver) Chan, Pedro Pechorro, Matthew W. Logan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Forensic challenges in a case of suspected filicide, matricide, and post‐mortem dismemberment

Journal of Forensic Sciences, EarlyView.
Abstract Familicide represents one of the most complex forms of domestic violence in forensic practice. Among intrafamilial homicides, filicide and matricide pose major medico‐legal and criminological challenges, particularly when autopsy findings are nonspecific or severely altered by post‐mortem changes.
Isabella Caristo, Rosario Barranco, Giulio Fraternali Orcioni, Domenico Coviello, Francesco Ventura   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The complexity of neighborhood effects: A developmental and ecological framework for violent victimization

Criminology, EarlyView.
Abstract Extensive research has established a link between low self‐control and child victimization. However, the specific neighborhood conditions under which low self‐control most strongly influences victimization have been little examined, and, more importantly, no previous studies have investigated the complex ways in which neighborhood context ...
Myunghee You, Brian J. Stults
wiley   +1 more source

Interactional privilege of violence: Status and interaction in the street field

Criminology, EarlyView.
Abstract Criminologists have long described and theorized the relationship between status, respect, and violence within urban communities. Although this finding is generally accepted within criminology, ethnographic empirical illustrations of this phenomenon are sparse.
Hakan Kalkan, Heith Copes
wiley   +1 more source

Layered abandonment: The moral interpretation of suffering in extreme confinement

Criminology, EarlyView.
Abstract Loss and rejection are central to prison life, yet how they crystallize into a more general sense of abandonment remains under‐theorized. Drawing on 64 interviews with men held in prolonged self‐isolation or serving indeterminate forvaring sentences in Denmark, we conceptualize abandonment not simply as hardship but as suffering plus ...
Frederik Rom Taxhjelm, Julie Laursen
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The informal prisoner justice system: Classification, identification, and punishment of sex offenders behind bars

Criminology, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on 576 interviews with incarcerated men and 131 correctional staff across five Western Canadian prisons, we reconceptualize the prison code as subcultural law, documenting the “informal prisoner justice system” as its enforcement arm. Although scholars have treated the code primarily as cultural values prescribing loyalty, silence, and
Luca Berardi, Justin E. C. Tetrault, Kevin D. Haggerty, Sandra Bucerius   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Optimizing patrol time in crime hot spots: Replicating the “Koper Curve”

Criminology &Public Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary In a study published more than 30 years ago, Koper found that patrol visits to crime hot spots were most effective in deterring crime and disorder when they were 11–15 min in length. This finding, popularly known as the “Koper Curve,” has had a substantial influence on police practice and research.
Christopher S. Koper, Lester Wollman, Simen Oestmo   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Changing Public Attitudes Toward the Employment of Formerly Incarcerated People: The Role of “Human Resources Social Advocacy”

Human Resource Management Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This registered report aims to evaluate the extent to which the human resources function can change public attitudes toward a controversial social issue. Focusing on the employment of formerly incarcerated people, we explore the novel concept of “human resources social advocacy” (HRSA), an interventionist approach through which HR might pro ...
Prue Burns, Marco De Sisto, Andrew Timming, Jun Gu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source