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Towards a Developmental Retribution and Reciprocity Model (RRM): Implications for Youth Justice

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Youth justice systems are frequently justified by reference to developmental change, yet chronological age is often treated as a proxy for underlying psychological processes. This paper develops a Developmental Retribution and Reciprocity Model (RRM), integrating evolutionary criminology with contemporary developmental neuroscience to clarify ...
Evelyn Svingen
wiley   +1 more source

Choreography, controversy and child sex abuse: Theoretical reflections on a cultural criminological analysis of dance in a pop music video [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This article was inspired by the controversy over claims of ‘pedophilia!!!!’ undertones and the ‘triggering’ of memories of childhood sexual abuse in some viewers by the dance performance featured in the music video for Sia’s ‘Elastic Heart’ (2015).
Adshead J   +33 more
core   +1 more source

FASD and Intellectual Disability Equivalence: A Meta‐Analysis of Suggestibility During Forensic Interviews

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Intellectual disability (ID) equivalence describes conditions in which individuals function cognitively and adaptively at levels comparable to ID without meeting IQ‐based diagnostic criteria. Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) is characterised by impaired executive and adaptive functioning despite IQs often above the ID threshold ...
David J. Gilbert   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reimagining the Educational Field: Thoughts on a Critical Criminology of Education

open access: yesSocieties, 2015
Prompted by the need to expand the criminological enterprise, this paper makes a case for a critical criminology of education, one that takes a governance approach.
Karl Guebert
doaj   +1 more source

Taking Fuel From the Fire: Regulating the Introduction of Rape Myth Infused and Irrelevant Evidence About Complainants in Rape Trials

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article considers how victim‐blaming and stereotypical attitudes about appropriate victim behaviour can impact upon the operation of rape trials, particularly by prejudicing a complainant's testimony where s/he can be portrayed as having departed from the stereotypical norm of a ‘real victim’.
Susan Leahy
wiley   +1 more source

Decolonisation as Departure: Interrogating the Reconstructivist Tendencies of Australian Criminology

open access: yesJournal of Global Indigeneity
In this article I critically analyse the recent “decolonial” turn within Australian criminology. Drawing upon critical Indigenous conceptualisations of decolonisation and analysing my personal confrontations with the discipline, I examine how ...
Natalie Ironfield
doaj   +1 more source

Realist Criminology, the New Aetiological Crisis and the Crime Drop

open access: yesInternational Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2016
This paper aims to provide a summary of some of the key issues outlined in my recent publication Realist Criminology (2014a). It discusses, in particular, the perceived deficiencies of both mainstream and critical criminology in relation to their ...
Roger Matthews
doaj   +1 more source

The when and where of an emerging crime type: the example of metal theft from the railway network of Great Britain [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Metal theft has become an increasingly common crime in recent years, but lack of data has limited research into it. The present study used police-recorded crime data to study the spatial and temporal concentration of metal theft from the railway network ...
Ashby, MPJ   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Teacher–Student Relationship Quality as a Mediator in the Association of Parent–Child Communication With Adolescent Bullying Perpetration and Substance Use: Evidence From the 2017/2018 HBSC Study

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Bullying perpetration and substance use are two prevalent and concerning forms of delinquent behavior worldwide. Although parent–child communication has been theorized to reduce adolescents' involvement in these behaviors, empirical evidence remains mixed.
Hang Zhou, Ji‐Kang Chen
wiley   +1 more source

On Imaginative Criminology and Its Significance

open access: yesSocieties, 2015
In growing numbers criminologists are discovering the value of imaginative and creative approaches for enquiry. There is now a critical mass of criminological work that engages substantively and theoretically with cultural artefacts such as film, fiction,
Jon Frauley
doaj   +1 more source

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