Profiling Wildlife Crimes Prosecuted Federally by the United States
Frontiers in Conservation Science, 2022 Wildlife crime threatens national and global security. Much of the impact of wildlife crime is felt overseas, often in developing countries, where it threatens to catalyze conflicts, hinders economic development, undermines the rule of law, and threatens
Monique C. Sosnowski +3 more
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BMC Psychiatry, 2023 Background Psychiatric illness is a well-established risk factor for criminal justice system involvement, but less is known about the relationships between specific psychiatric illnesses and reoffending.
James M. Ogilvie +6 more
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Flipping the Script on Criminal Justice Risk Assessment: An actuarial model for assessing the risk the federal sentencing system poses to defendants [PDF]
, 2022 In the criminal justice system, algorithmic risk assessment instruments are used to predict the risk a defendant poses to society; examples include the risk of recidivating or the risk of failing to appear at future court dates. However, defendants are also at risk of harm from the criminal justice system.
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An information theory approach to hypothesis testing in criminological research
Crime Science, 2018 Background This research demonstrates how the Akaike information criterion (AIC) can be an alternative to null hypothesis significance testing in selecting best fitting models. It presents an example to illustrate how AIC can be used in this way. Methods
Gohar A. Petrossian, Mike Maxfield
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Criminal Justice System Capacity Building: Lessons from a Longitudinal Training Project in Guyana [PDF]
Salus Journal, 2021 By drawing on two data sets— a performance monitoring plan and an outcome-based evaluation— generated over five years, this article describes training practices developed within a criminal justice system capacity building project in Guyana.
Natalia Balyasnikova +5 more
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Reimagining Criminal Justice: What Good Has Come From the \u27Good\u27 Faith Exception? [PDF]
, 2021 On March 13, 2020, Breonna Taylor settled into bed with her boyfriend Kenneth Walker after she finished working back-to-back shifts as an emergency room technician in Louisville, Kentucky.
Elahi-Shirazi, Yasamin
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Criminal Justice Roundtable | Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Humanitarian Crises at Rikers Island [PDF]
, 2023 April 12, 2023https://digitalcommons.nyls.edu/criminal_justice_institute/1003/thumbnail ...
Criminal Justice Institute
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Criminal Justice Roundtable | Criminal Justice Debt: Fines, Fees, and the Criminalization of Poverty [PDF]
, 2022 November 16, 2022https://digitalcommons.nyls.edu/criminal_justice_institute/1005/thumbnail ...
Criminal Justice Institute
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Wildlife crime: a conceptual integration, literature review, and methodological critique
Crime Science, 2017 Wildlife crime, including poaching and wildlife trafficking, threaten the existence of particular species. To date, research on wildlife crime has been primarily conducted by those with backgrounds in the biological sciences, however crime scientists ...
Justin Kurland +3 more
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