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Crime, Crime News, and Crime Views
Public Opinion Quarterly, 1981This 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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It is a theft but not a crime [PDF]
European Journal of Political Economy, 2007 Abstract Why do people who normally refrain from committing illegalities become digital pirates? In this paper we use a theoretical model of digital piracy combined with a game-theoretic mechanism of social norm formation to argue that no social stigma is attached to digital piracy because the latter has no perceived social cost; therefore, there is ...
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Social Indicators Research, 2003
This article provides an overall picture of crime and crime control in Korea over the past 30 years. By using official crime data, we examined general trends and characteristics of crime, crime rates, and crime control practices in each stage of the criminal justice system in Korea during that period. The relative seriousness of crime problems in Korea
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This article provides an overall picture of crime and crime control in Korea over the past 30 years. By using official crime data, we examined general trends and characteristics of crime, crime rates, and crime control practices in each stage of the criminal justice system in Korea during that period. The relative seriousness of crime problems in Korea
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2012
Necessity would appear to be an unambiguous concept. Yet in criminal law, where it serves as a justification for otherwise criminal acts if they bring high societal benefit, necessity only rarely brings acquittal. Historically there might be a good justification for this, but in evolved societies it would appear that necessity could be given a broader ...
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Necessity would appear to be an unambiguous concept. Yet in criminal law, where it serves as a justification for otherwise criminal acts if they bring high societal benefit, necessity only rarely brings acquittal. Historically there might be a good justification for this, but in evolved societies it would appear that necessity could be given a broader ...
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Confronting the ‘Crime of Crimes’
2013It is very likely that the month of May 2013 will forever be remembered as a landmark date of reckoning with the crime of genocide. On 10 May in Guatemala City the the three-judge First High-Risk Tribunal A sentenced the former president and chief of staff Efrain Rios Montt to 80 years imprisonment for his involvement in the targeted attacks on ...
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2013
As social beings, people are bound by their membership of groups. So it comes as no real surprise that they also commit crime in groups. However, there are many questions regarding group crime that we still cannot answer with any real certainty. For instance, does group membership mean that people who would not normally commit crimes become more likely
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As social beings, people are bound by their membership of groups. So it comes as no real surprise that they also commit crime in groups. However, there are many questions regarding group crime that we still cannot answer with any real certainty. For instance, does group membership mean that people who would not normally commit crimes become more likely
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Crime & Delinquency, 1961
The American people have never adequately understood the extent to which crime causes a waste of time, money, and human life. The reason for this inadequate understanding is the news papers' failure to supply the people with basic information. Sensationalism, uncritical use of "handout" material, misinforma tion and suppression of information, lack of
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The American people have never adequately understood the extent to which crime causes a waste of time, money, and human life. The reason for this inadequate understanding is the news papers' failure to supply the people with basic information. Sensationalism, uncritical use of "handout" material, misinforma tion and suppression of information, lack of
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