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Homicide and psychosis: Criminological particularities of schizophrenics, paranoiacs and melancholics. A review of 27 expertises

European Psychiatry, 2008
Introduction:The media coverage of a few homicides committed by psychotic obviously raises questions about the dangerous and violent nature of the mentally ill. Firmly rooted in the collective consciousness is the popular idea that someone who kills an unknown person in the street is mentally ill. On the contrary the epidemiological data are reassuring;
S. Richard-Devantoy, B. Gohier, A.S. Chocard, J.B. Garre   +3 more
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Information support for corruption counteraction

Russian Journal of Economics and Law
Objective: to systematize knowledge about the information and criminological implications of the legal regulation in combating corruption and to develop proposals for the optimization of its legal means.Methods: a set of scientific cognition methods ...
A. G. Gorshenkov, G. G. Gorshenkov, G. N. Gorshenkov   +2 more
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Public Criminology and Media Debates Over Policing

Studies in Social Justice, 2022
Public criminology is concerned with public understandings of crime and policing and public discussions of such matters by criminologists and allied social scientists.
Christopher Schneider
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Taxonomy coordinates of anticorruption expertise

Russian Journal of Economics and Law
Objective: to develop scientifically sound proposals for determining the taxonomic coordinates of anti-corruption expertise among other types of expertise.Methods: the general scientific method of dialectical cognition, as well as a number of specific ...
E. A. Akunchenko
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The evidence base for ranger patrol effectiveness in conservation and how to improve it

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Ranger patrols are a cornerstone of wildlife protection efforts around the world and occur across all ecological governance systems. Evidence that patrols reduce threats to wildlife and enable their recovery has not been systematically examined previously.
Trina Rytwinski, Robert S. A. Pickles, Matthew J. Muir, Steven J. Cooke, Joseph R. Bennett, Lisa A. Kelly, Adrienne Smith, Cynthia Cadet, Dwi N. Adhiasto, Inés Arroyo Quiroz, Mark D. Booton, Daphne P. Carlson, Drew T. Cronin, Anthony Dancer, Meredith L. Gore, Jennifer R. B. Miller, Stephen F. Pires, Amy Pokempner, James Slade, Andrew M. Lemieux   +19 more
wiley   +1 more source

Economic approach to the criminalization of rent-seeking; Challenges and requirements [PDF]

Faṣlnāmah-i Pizhūhish-i Huqūq-i Kiyfarī
Rent seeking is a widely used word in our society that the frequency of its use indicates the prevalence of a type of behavior based on receiving illegitimate financial and non-financial benefits by exploiting the fields and factors of rent, such as ...
Saideh Amini, Hassan Alipour
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The Tree of Life Synagogue Attack: A Terrorist Radicalization Assessment Protocol‐18 Examination of Pre‐Attack Warnings and Post‐Attack Contagion and Copycat Effects

Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This is a retrospective case study of an antisemitic lone actor terrorist who completed the deadliest attack against the Jewish community in American history. The analysis through the lens of the Terrorist Radicalization Assessment Protocol (TRAP‐18) finds that 72% of the warning indicators were present, including four proximal warning ...
Molly Amman, Julia Kupper, J. Reid Meloy
wiley   +1 more source

Cognitive Decline on the Bench: A Text Analysis of the Opinions of Justice Stephen Field

Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper uses text analysis to understand how cognitive decline affected the opinion writing of Justice Stephen Field over the course of his career. Justice Field is used as a case study because of his lengthy tenure, the fact he did not have law clerks to write opinions for him, and because it is widely known he was senile for the last part
Mikel A. Norris
wiley   +1 more source

Applying the Rules of Evidence to Expert Testimony About Risk

Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Expert opinion about dangerousness or risk is common at sentencing, criminal commitment proceedings and some types of pretrial detention hearings. This article argues that such evidence must be (1) “material” (logically relevant, empirically generalizable, and epistemologically germane), (2) “probative” (a measure of accuracy, which is ...
Christopher Slobogin
wiley   +1 more source

Lived experience to lived experience expertise: embracing lived experience in Australian criminology

Contemporary Justice Review
This paper, authored by some individuals with lived experience of the Australian criminal legal-punishment system, serves as a call to action for their recognition and integration within the criminal legal sector. We highlight the importance of acknowledging the deep personal nature of criminal legal-punishment system experiences, which, though ...
Antojado, Dwayne, Bloggs, Jo, Doyle, Caroline   +2 more
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