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The Myth of Immigrant Criminality and the Paradox of Assimilation [PDF]
, 2007 It is a myth that immigrants increase the amount of crime in the United States. Data from the U.S. census and other sources show that for every ethnic group -- without exception -- incarceration rates among young men are lowest for immigrants. This holds
Rubin G. Rumbaut, Walter A. Ewing
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Towards a Developmental Retribution and Reciprocity Model (RRM): Implications for Youth Justice
Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Youth justice systems are frequently justified by reference to developmental change, yet chronological age is often treated as a proxy for underlying psychological processes. This paper develops a Developmental Retribution and Reciprocity Model (RRM), integrating evolutionary criminology with contemporary developmental neuroscience to clarify ...
Evelyn Svingen
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Combatting criminality at leisure, play and recreational parks in South Africa. [PDF]
African Journal of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure, 2019 People visit parks because they have an inherent need to ‘recharge their batteries’ and they also offer a needed space for contact with the natural environment.
Kola O. Odeku, Sambo Sifiso Rudolf
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Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Intellectual disability (ID) equivalence describes conditions in which individuals function cognitively and adaptively at levels comparable to ID without meeting IQ‐based diagnostic criteria. Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) is characterised by impaired executive and adaptive functioning despite IQs often above the ID threshold ...
David J. Gilbert +7 more
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Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article considers how victim‐blaming and stereotypical attitudes about appropriate victim behaviour can impact upon the operation of rape trials, particularly by prejudicing a complainant's testimony where s/he can be portrayed as having departed from the stereotypical norm of a ‘real victim’.
Susan Leahy
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The criminal etiology and its importance in explaining and clearing up the roads that lead to criminality in the Prishtina city in the period of 1999-2014 [PDF]
, 2015 Crime as a phenomenon has been and remains fellow traveler and concern of all time and human stages. The criminal etiology is considered as one among most important sectors in studies and researches dealing with criminality in general.
BERISHA, Fidair
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, 2021 This book explores how predictive policing transforms police work. Police departments around the world have started to use data-driven applications to produce crime forecasts and intervene into the future through targeted prevention measures. Based on three years of field research in Germany and Switzerland, this book provides a theoretically ...
Egbert, Simon, Leese, Matthias
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Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Bullying perpetration and substance use are two prevalent and concerning forms of delinquent behavior worldwide. Although parent–child communication has been theorized to reduce adolescents' involvement in these behaviors, empirical evidence remains mixed.
Hang Zhou, Ji‐Kang Chen
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A New Educational Model for Criminality Prevention [PDF]
Solon said that, in order to be free, a citizen had to study; education was the ground of democracy and in Athens there was no illiterate citizen. The education was both of the body as well as of the soul in a natural continuity...
Emilian M. DOBRESCU +1 more
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Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the potential associations between anxiety and aggressive behaviors in college students with high‐risk adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and explores how this relationship may be influenced by bullying perpetration, applying general strain theory. A sample of 282 college students aged 19 to 29 (Mage = 21.59, SDage = 2.48;
Jeoung Min Lee +5 more
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