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Homicide, punishment and deterrence in Australia
Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Australian data encompassing 1910–2022, by year and state, were analyzed to estimate the effect of capital punishment on homicide rates. Our estimates showed that capital punishment had a negative and significant effect on homicides. In some specifications, the estimates implied that an execution was associated with 12.68 fewer homicides ...
Hugh Farrell, Vincent O'Sullivan
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Who Is the System? On the Externalisation and Depersonalisation of Responsibility for Abuse
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the externalisation and depersonalisation of responsibility in the institutional communication of the Roman Catholic Church in the context of sexualised violence. Niklas Luhmann's theory of social systems is used to show how semantic constructions such as ‘systemic causes’ rhetorically blur responsibility and contribute ...
Thomas Kron
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Erving Goffman at 100: A Chameleon Seen as a Rorschach Test within a Kaleidoscope
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.The 100th anniversary of Erving Goffman's birth was in 2022. Drawing on his work, the Goffman archives, the secondary literature, and personal experiences with him and those in his university of Chicago cohort, I reflect on some implications of his work and life, and the inseparable issues of understanding society.
Gary T. Marx
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Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.In this article, I analyze my interviews with Mark (pseudonym), a social scientist who committed major academic fraud in over 50 top‐tier journal articles in the first decade of this century. I explain how stigma played a central role in how Mark and I shaped our interaction. I focus on how Mark, a former Professor and Dean with a distinguished career,
Thaddeus Müller
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PROTOCOL: Street outreach conflict mediation programs for reducing violence
Campbell Systematic ReviewsThis is a protocol for a Cochrane Review (intervention). The objectives are as follows: This systematic review will synthesize the available evaluation research on the effectiveness of street outreach conflict mediation programs.
Edward R. Maguire +3 more
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Expanding the methodological toolkit of criminology and criminal justice with the Total Error Framework [PDF]
, 2022 Thom Snaphaan +2 more
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Violence, Volition, and Volatility: The Embodied Subjectivity of Women in Cults
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.This paper explores the embodied experience of 25 women who are former cult members. By delving into the stories of three protagonists, we examine how these women engaged with and possibly redefined the cult's socially constructed notion of womanhood.
Shirly Bar‐Lev, Michal Morag
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Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.Rampage school shootings, where students go to their own school to randomly kill classmates, teachers, friends, and strangers, are among the most drastic types of human behavior. While research increasingly points to interaction dynamics as being key for the emergence of crime and violence, scholars have not yet systematically studied interaction ...
Anne Nassauer
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Journal of Economic CriminologyThis study investigates cryptocurrency-related scams using data from two state scam trackers, focusing on scam types, financial losses, and scammers' methods of contact.
Brandon Dulisse +3 more
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Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.In the aftermath of the 2020 U.S. election, the boundary between activism and extremism blurred, with election officials reporting violent threats and false accusations of election fraud. From a symbolic interactionist perspective, these attacks provide a unique lens for examining the consequences of being falsely labeled a criminal.
Steven Windisch
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