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The Construction of Lithuanian Prison Sentence Assumptions in Critical Criminology Perspective: an Analysis of the Goals of Imprisonment

Kriminologijos studijos, 2022
The declared aims of custodial sentencing worldwide and in Lithuania are to protect society from crime and reduce recidivism; it is agreed that these aims can be achieved only when the duration of imprisonment is devoted to the prisoner’s gradual return
Jolanta Aleknevičienė, Ignė Kalinauskaitė, Loreta Matačiūtė   +2 more
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Historical Criminology and the Explanatory Power of the Past [PDF]

, 2019
To what extent can the past ‘explain’ the present? This deceptively simple question lies at the heart of historical criminology (research which incorporates historical primary sources while addressing present-day debates and practices in the criminal ...
Bourdieu P, Braudel F, Broad CD, Buckle HT, Corfield P, Cox P, Garland D, Godfrey B, Godfrey B, Godfrey B, Hartley LP, Holdaway S, King P, Koselleck R, Lawrence P, Lawrence P, Loader I, Mink L, Paul Lawrence, Reiner R, Reiner R, Sebald WG, Trompf GW, White H, Yeomans H   +24 more
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Unveiling Bias: The Impact of Male Rape Myths and Stereotypes on Juror Verdicts in Male‐on‐Male Rape Trials

Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examined how male rape myths, racial/ethnicity biases, and sexuality stereotypes influence verdicts in male‐on‐male rape trials—an area that is currently under‐researched. A sample of 463 participants read a mock rape trial, where both the defendant and complainant were male, with defendant ethnicity (White, Black, Asian) and ...
Lee J. Curley, B. Kennath Widanaralalage, Dominic Willmott, Joanna Ermenkova   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Optimized Risk Assessment in Forensic Practice: A Comparison of Machine Learning and Manual Scoring Approaches

Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As correctional jurisdictions and risk instrument developers look to optimize scoring for specific population needs, an open question remains ‐ which method is optimal. Popular scoring methods range from manual simple scoring approaches (e.g., Burgess) to more complex machine learning algorithms (e.g., random forests).
Danielle J. Rieger, Ralph C. Serin, Shelley L. Brown   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Four Ways of Eco-global Criminology

International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2017
In charting out the ‘four ways’ of eco-global criminology, this paper discusses the importance of recognising and acting in regards to the differences evident in (1) ways of being (ontology), (2) ways of knowing (epistemology), (3) ways of doing ...
Rob White
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Four forms of 'offender' rehabilitation: Towards an interdisciplinary perspective [PDF]

, 2012
This paper aims to advance the case for a more fully interdisciplinary understanding of offender rehabilitation, partly as a means of shedding light upon and moving beyond contemporary ‘paradigm conflicts’.
Andrews, Andrews, Andrews, Bauman, Bazemore, Beccaria, Bonta, Bottoms, Bottoms, Burnett, Crewe, Cullen, Duff, Farrall, Farrall, Farrall, Farrall, Farrall, Farrington, Foucault, Freiberg, Garland, Garland, Giordano, Hollin, Hough, Johnstone, Kendall, Laws, Lemert, Lewis, Maguire, Mann, Maruna, Maruna, Maruna, Maruna, Maruna, Maruna, Maruna, Maruna, McCulloch, McCulloch, McNeill, McNeill, McNeill, McNeill, McNeill, McNeill, McNeill, McNeill, McNeill, Paternoster, Polaschek, Porporino, Pratt, Raynor, Raynor, Robinson, Robinson, Robinson, Rose, Rotman, Scottish Prisons Commission, Sellin, Sennett, Stokes, Uggen, Van Zyl Smit, Ward, Ward, Ward, Ward, Ward, Weaver, Weaver, Zedner   +76 more
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On Second Thought: The Impact of Confessions, DNA, and Belief Perseverance on Students' Perceptions of Guilt and Interrogations

Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite growing public knowledge of false confession cases, research with students and community members continues to find that people assume confessions indicate guilt. The present research explored the implications of belief perseverance: the tendency to maintain a belief even when confronted with compelling contradictory evidence.
Taya D. Henry, Kimberley A. Clow, Victoria Hall   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Overstated Challenge: Analysing the Challenge of Southern Criminology to the Hegemony of Northern Criminology and its Implications for Criminological Theory in the 21st Century

Contemporary Challenges
In an era marked by the escalating globalisation of crime, the import of Southern criminology has progressively transitioned from a marginalised field to a central focus in research.[1] This transition presents theoretical challenges to criminology in ...
Shilun Zhou
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Exploring the criminology curriculum [PDF]

, 2019
There are calls across Higher Education to address deep structural inequalities withspecific concerns that the marginalisation of certain voices (female, colonised, nonwestern and LGBTQ+) has influenced and distorted the production of knowledge ...
Stockdale, Kelly, Sweeney, Rowan
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State and green crimes related to water pollution and ecological disorganization: water pollution from publicly owned treatment works (POTW) facilities across US states [PDF]

, 2017
Green criminologists often refer to water pollution as an example of a green crime, but have yet to produce much research on this subject. The current article addresses the need for green criminological analyses of water pollution problems, and draws ...
Long, Michael, Lynch, Michael J., Stretesky, Paul   +2 more
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