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Juvenile Delinquency in Ghana: A Comparative Analysis of Delinquents and Non-Delinquents
The Journal of Criminal Law, Criminology, and Police Science, 1964 emerge from the distinctive institutional features of the particular society, while its uniformities derive from the common social processes. The hypotheses that have been formulated about juvenile deliquency pertain mainly to Western societies.l The extent to which these hypotheses are culturebound by Western institutions cannot be determined until ...
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Divine intimacy, frustration and the madness of the city: Changing transhuman kinship in China
Ethos, EarlyView.This essay shows the affective resonances of the collision of gods, humans, and rapidly shifting landscapes in a newly urbanized part of Suzhou, China. The first section discusses how ties to spirits are not just metaphors or projections of human kinship, but literal parts of a kinship system that invoke responsibilities of care, based on links of both
Keping Wu, Robert P. Weller
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How Regulatory Costs Impede Financial Technology Gains
European Financial Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While financial technology innovation lowers intermediation costs, regulatory frictions may prevent these gains from reaching long‐term investors and borrowers. Using variation in retail investor participation driven by state securities registration lapses in peer‐to‐peer lending, we demonstrate that regulatory frictions are associated with ...
Shyam Venkatesan +2 more
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Pre‐parenting education for adolescents: Program evaluation model and knowledge outcomes
Family Relations, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective To evaluate the Parenting: It's a Life (PIAL) curriculum relation to changes in adolescents' knowledge of parenting‐related topics and to present a flexible program evaluation model suitable for school settings. Background Adolescents often have limited knowledge of key parenting topics—including coparenting, establishing paternity ...
Bethany H. McCurdy +6 more
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Family Relations, EarlyView.Abstract Objective This study explored the sociodemographic characteristics of men convicted of intimate partner violence (IPV), their childhood exposure to violence, gender norms, and the meanings they attribute to their use of violence. Background Guided by the ecological framework for understanding IPV, violence is conceptualized as the outcome of ...
Fatma Ayhan
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The Effects of Information Technologies on the Bankruptcy Decision
Financial Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Exploiting the staggered adoptions of electronic systems across 70 bankruptcy courts in the United States, I investigate the impacts of digital transformation on bankruptcy behavior. The digital transformation in bankruptcy courts significantly lowered the cost of filing by enabling debtors to file for bankruptcy online, yet empirical tests ...
Jeyul Yang
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Problematising ‘Vulnerability’ in Women's Prisons
The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.ABSTRACT ‘Vulnerability’ is a commonly used but little understood term in the field of social policy and beyond. The refocusing of our criminal justice system around notions of ‘vulnerability’ has had wide‐reaching consequences which often escape both academic and political attention.
Sarah Waite, Danica Darley
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Flexible Contract, Flexible Morale? Microcredit Design and Repayment Discipline
International Economic Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Flexible repayment benefits borrowers, but practitioners fear increased moral hazard. Investigating their concerns requires disentangling repayment choices from repayment capacity, which is typically infeasible in field studies. We use a lab‐in‐the‐field experiment with 645 microcredit borrowers to cleanly identify the effect of repayment ...
Kristina Czura, Anett John, Lisa Spantig
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POVERTY TRAPS, ECONOMIC INEQUALITY AN INCENTIVES FOR DELINQUENCY
Cuadernos de Economía, 2013 This paper explores theoretical linkages between poverty traps, economic inequality and delinquency in a perfect competition overlapping generations model characterized by dual legal production sectors and one illegal sector.
Edgar Villa, Andrés Salazar
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