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Review of Economics and Statistics, 2006 Using data from three waves of Add Health we find that being very attractive reduces a young adult's (ages 18-26) propensity for criminal activity and being unattractive increases it for a number of crimes, ranging from burglary to selling drugs. A variety of tests demonstrate that this result is not because beauty is acting as a proxy for socio ...
Mocan, Naci, Tekin, Erdal
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Stigmatization of patients with mental disorders: a comparative study of nurses in forensic psychiatry and inpatient settings [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychiatryBackgroundForensic psychiatric patients require specialized care due to the unique challenges in forensic settings. Negative attitudes and beliefs towards mentally disordered offenders can lead to discrimination against patients and are related to worse ...
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Medical Treatment of Criminals in Premodern China Based on Qing Era Local Archives: Focusing on the Case of Ba County in the late 18th Century [PDF]
Uisahak, 2023 This study aimed to confirm what kind of medical treatment was given to criminals by the local governments in Qing China and the role of the government doctors in charge of the criminals’ medical care. Using local administrative and historical materials,
HANBARK KIM
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Global Crime, 2015 Why do criminals use rituals? Past work argues that criminal rituals provide a sense of continuity or certainty in an inherently uncertain environment. We argue instead that rituals play an important organizational role. Criminal rituals facilitate internal governance and promote group activity through three mechanisms: creating common knowledge ...
Skarbek, David Benjamin, Wang, Peng
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Impersonation of Journal of Electrical Engineering & Technology journal website [PDF]
Science Editing, 2017 The website of Journal of Electrical Engineering & Technology (JEET, http://www.jeet.or.kr) published by Korean Institute Electrical Engineers was found to be impugned in March 2017.
Jaeseok Choi
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Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2022 In 2013, the Ministry of Justice’s ban on sending books to prisoners sparked a wave of protests. It was eventually declared illegal as books were deemed essential to rehabilitation.
Alice Bonzom
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The Imagination of Criminals in Victorian London in Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Interlitteraria, 2019 In this article I write about the split of London described in Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Dr. Jekyll, decent and belonging to the middle class, fail s to resist the transformation into Mr. Hyde, gross and belonging to the lower class.
Hiu Wai Wong
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Some aspects of popularization of a social antihero [PDF]
Sociološki Pregled, 2008 The paper analyses the development and social significance of social heroes with particular view of those conditions in a social system which enables and facilitates mutual approximation, and symbolic and functional alternation of diverse categories ...
Pavićević Olivera
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Global Crime, 2010 Why do criminals use constitutions? This article argues that constitutions perform three functions in criminal organisations. First, criminal constitutions promote consensus by creating common knowledge among criminals about what the organisation expects of them and what they can expect of the organisation's other members.
Leeson, Peter, Skarbek, David
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The innocent hill walker [PDF]
, 2012 Criminals are going to ever more extreme lengths to get access to company systems and home computers, according to Les Ball and Natalie ...
Ball, Les, Coull, Natalie
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