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Rape, inequality and the criminal justice response in England: The importance of age and gender

open access: yesCriminology & Criminal Justice, 2019
This article draws upon quantitative and content analysis of 585 reports of rape recorded within two police force areas in England in 2010 and in 2014 tracking individual incidents to eventual outcome to examine the impact, if any, of intersecting ...
S. Walker   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Criminal Justice and Opportunity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Today, many criminal justice policies and practices have closed the door to opportunity. Whole communities suffer opportunity losses when large segments of residents are involved in the criminal justice system.

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Reimagining Criminal Justice: The Violence of Incarceration in the Midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Six years after the infamous and disturbing elevator video of former NFL player Ray Rice punching his fiancée Janay Palmer in the face, knocking her unconscious and then dragging her out of the elevator, Rice and Palmer remain happily married, both ...
Henson, Tammy
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Restorative Justice: Theory, Processes, and Application in Rural Alaska [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
An exploration of the principles behind using restorative justice as an alternate form of sentencing in criminal cases, with a focus particularly on how restorative justice might be of benefit in rural Alaska. Includes a bibliography.
May, Jeff D.
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The Crisis of the Young African American Male and the Criminal Justice System [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
African Americans are more likely to be victimized by crime and also to be under criminal justice supervision. This paper explores the current status of African-American males within the criminal justice system, assesses the factors that have created ...
Marc Mauer
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Criminal Justice Debt During the Prisoner Reintegration Process: Who Has It and How Much?

open access: yesCriminal Justice and Behavior, 2018
Much recent, national attention has centered on financial sanctions and associated debt burdens related to criminal justice. Scholars and practitioners alike have argued that financial debt among the incarcerated, in particular, exacerbates a transition ...
Nathan W. Link
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Whai tikanga: In pursuit of justice. Māori interactions with the criminal justice system and experiences of institutional racism : A thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Psychology at Massey University, New Zealand. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The criminal justice system in Aotearoa, New Zealand has a destructive history of interactions with Māori. Considered alongside the broader context of colonisation, this history provides a backdrop against which to understand contemporary Māori ...
Brittain, Eleanor
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From Verbal Account to Written Evidence: Do Written Statements Generated by Officers Accurately Represent What Witnesses Say?

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
Most countries compile evidence from witnesses and victims manually, whereby the interviewer assimilates what the interviewee says during the course of an interview to produce an evidential statement.
Rebecca Milne   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Stories as property: Narrative ownership as a key concept in victims’ experiences with criminal justice

open access: yesCriminology & Criminal Justice, 2018
This article offers a novel approach to the difficulties experienced by victims in relation to their social surroundings in general, and to justice processes in particular, by expanding on an emerging paradigm of narrative victimology.
A. Pemberton, P. Aarten, E. Mulder
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Population data and genetic diversity analysis of 17 Y-STR loci in Saudi population

open access: yesEgyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences, 2020
Background The Y chromosome polymorphism has been widely studied for human migrations, population genetics, forensic applications, and paternity analysis.
Ahmed Ch. Kassab   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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