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"The mad", "the bad", "the victim":gendered constructions of women who kill within the criminal justice system [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Women commit significantly fewer murders than men and are perceived to be less violent. This belief about women’s non-violence reflects the discourses surrounding gender, all of which assume that women possess certain inherent essential characteristics ...
Weare, Siobhan
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Explaining support for vigilantism and punitiveness: assessing the role of perceived procedural fairness, ethnocentrism, authoritarianism and anomia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The purpose of this study is to investigate the interrelationships among ethnocentrism, authoritarianism, anomia, the lack of confidence in the criminal justice system, punitiveness and support for vigilantism in a cross-sectional sample of 1,078 Belgian
Pauwels, Lieven, Van Damme, Anjuli
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Criminal justice and detention

open access: yes, 2019
This chapter evaluates the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (Articles Art. 37 and 40) in the policy and practice of detention of children within the Norwegian criminal justice system. It covers three different forms of detention (pre-trial police custody, pre-trial court-ordered custody and detention as punishment) from a ...
Grøning, Linda, Sætre, Hilde Svrljuga
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Examining Racial Disparities in Criminal Case Outcomes among Indigent Defendants in San Francisco [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
We reviewed 10,753 complete case records, consisting of cases between 2011 and 2014, from the San Francisco Public Defender's Office. These data were stored in the Public Defender's GIDEON case management system, which draws from data maintained by the ...
Bernardo Santos Da Silveria   +2 more
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Digitalisation of Criminal Justice

open access: yes, 2023
Digitisation of the judiciary is one of the elements of building e-government to make it easier for EU citizens to access public services. Electronic tools can be applied in all areas related to criminal justice and concern: serving, conducting, preserving and transmitting evidence, organizing remote trials, participating in procedural actions ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Behavioural Genetics in Criminal Cases: Past, Present and Future [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Researchers studying human behavioral genetics have made significant scientific progress in enhancing our understanding of the relative contributions of genetics and the environment in observed variations in human behavior. Quickly outpacing the advances
Bernet, William, Farahany, Nita A.
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The self‐reported health status of prisoners in New South Wales

open access: yesAustralian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2004
Objective:To describe the physical health of the New South Wales prisoner population. Design:Cross‐sectional random sample of adult men and women prisoners. Setting:29 New South Wales correctional centres (27 male and two female).
T. Butler   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Community awareness and performance of Revitalized Pulis Sa Barangay in the City of Mati, Philippines

open access: yesDavao Research Journal
Revitalized Pulis Sa Barangay (R-PSB) of the Philippine National Police has grown  to be a mission to maintain the advancements made by government programs provided to the barangays, averting any possible resurgence of terrorists and protecting the ...
Grace T Llanto   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Criminal Justice Act [PDF]

open access: bronze, 1968
Alec Samuels
openalex   +1 more source

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