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Doctors Criminal and Criminous

New England Journal of Medicine, 1971
THERE is a widespread belief, repeated in a hundred books, that a physician, if he were sufficiently evil and thoroughly de-Hippocratized, would make an excellent murderer.
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Criminal Behavior, Criminal Mind: Being Caught in a "Criminal Spin"

International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 2010
The innovative theory of the “criminal spin” presents a phenomenological description and interpretation of criminal conduct. The theory indicates a process that occurs in different phases of criminality, involving an escalation of criminal activity, thinking, and emotions that run beyond self-control, sometimes contrary to initial decision.
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Criminal Responsibility, Criminal Competence, and Prediction of Criminal Behavior

2013
This chapter systematically addresses the current relevance of neuroscience to the doctrines of criminal responsibility and competence and the practice of predicting criminal conduct. It offers a framework for thinking about how neuroscientific information may be relevant to these doctrines and practices.
Morse, Stephen, Newsome, William T.
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Criminal Propensity and Criminal Opportunity

2008
Criminal profiling is an investigative tool that has attained unprecedented recognition despite a clear lack of empirical criminological evidence supporting its validity and assumptions. The ‘‘homology hypothesis’’ is one of these assumptions, and it postulates a direct relationship between crime scene characteristics and personal attributes of the ...
Eric Beauregard, Patrick Lussier, Jean Proulx   +2 more
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Conflict and Criminality

American Sociological Review, 1966
Discussions of crime and conflict have been characterized by imprecision in defining and relating the two concepts. This has contributed to confusion about the subject matter and research aims of criminology, to a tendency to introduce new theoretical formulations before older alternatives have been adequately explored, and to an investment of ...
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Criminal Mobility and Criminal Achievement

Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 2008
This study examines the impact of criminal mobility on criminal earning patterns in a sample of incarcerated offenders who reported their criminal experiences over a three-year period. Criminal mobility is indicated by an individual's offending perimeter and not the traditional journey-to-crime measure.
Carlo Morselli, Marie-Noële Royer
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The Criminal of Passion

2019
This chapter explores the categorization of the criminal of passion in the second half of the nineteenth century, in Italy. In this period, legal and medical scholars switched the focus of the criminological debate from the crime to the criminal, looking at the criminal of passion as a social and physiological being.
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Coercive control: To criminalize or not to criminalize?

Criminology & Criminal Justice, 2017
Criminalizing coercive or controlling behaviour in an intimate relationship, as has been done in England and Wales and is proposed in Scotland, has the advantage of offering an offence structure to match the operation and wrong of intimate partner violence. This article raises the question as to whether other jurisdictions should follow suit.
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