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Criminal Behavior, Criminal Mind: Being Caught in a "Criminal Spin"
International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 2010The 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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Forensic Science International, 2006
We report a study of 40 burnt bodies on which an autopsy was carried out at the Institut de Médecine Légale in Lyon (28 men/12 women, average age = 41 years, minimum age = 3 years, maximum age = 86 years). Criminal deaths (31%) represented the second cause of death after accidents (52%), and before suicide (16%).
L, Fanton +3 more
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We report a study of 40 burnt bodies on which an autopsy was carried out at the Institut de Médecine Légale in Lyon (28 men/12 women, average age = 41 years, minimum age = 3 years, maximum age = 86 years). Criminal deaths (31%) represented the second cause of death after accidents (52%), and before suicide (16%).
L, Fanton +3 more
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Criminal Responsibility, Criminal Competence, and Prediction of Criminal Behavior
2013This 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
2008Criminal 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 +2 more
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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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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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Criminality and Criminal Justice Policy
Journal of Russian Law, 2022Yuriy Pudovochkin +1 more
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Coercive control: To criminalize or not to criminalize?
Criminology & Criminal Justice, 2017Criminalizing 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. It argues
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Criminal Policy and the Criminalization / Decriminalization of the Criminal Law
Legal Concept, 2019Igor’ Bryka, Kristina Haperskaya
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