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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, Jean Proulx, Patrick Lussier   +2 more
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Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools

Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2022
Karina R. Espana
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Who Is the One Being Disrespectful? Understanding and Deconstructing the Criminalization of Elementary School Boys of Color

Urban education (Beverly Hills, Calif.), 2019
This research aims to contribute to understanding what criminalization for boys of color looks like in urban elementary school settings and to offering insights into what we must do to disrupt criminalization in urban schools.
Vincent Basile, Adam W. York, Ray Black
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Deinstitutionalization and other factors in the criminalization of persons with serious mental illness and how it is being addressed

CNS Spectrums, 2019
One of the major concerns in present-day psychiatry is the criminalization of persons with serious mental illness (SMI). This trend began in the late 1960s when deinstitutionalization was implemented throughout the United States.
H. Lamb, L. Weinberger
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Criminal Justice: Criminal Courts

2013
This entry on the adult court system in the United States discusses the foundation, structure, and authority of courts at federal, state, and local levels. The role of criminal courts, the nature of an adversarial justice system, the plea bargaining process, and the goals of sentencing are described.
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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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Immigration and crime and the criminalization of immigration

Routledge International Handbook of Migration Studies, 2019
Historically in the United States, periods of large-scale immigration have been accompanied by perceptions of threat and stereotypes of the feared criminality of immigrants.
R. Rumbaut, Katie Dingeman, Anthony Robles   +2 more
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Criminal statistics and identification of criminals

National Municipal Review, 1927
AbstractA report submitted to the Sub–committee of the National Crime Commission on Prdons, Parole, Probation, Penal Laws and Institutional ...
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Criminal or Criminalized?

Foreign Policy, 1993
Elliott Abrams, Arthur L. Liman
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Criminal Profiling and Criminal Investigation

Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 2010
A review of the development of criminal profiling demonstrates that profiling has never been a scientific process. It is essentially based on a compendium of common sense intuitions and faulty theoretical assumptions, and in practice appears to consist of little more than educated guesses and wishful thinking.
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