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Conducting Prison Research in a Foreign Setting
International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2015 This paper discusses the process of conducting prison research in France. Drawing on a study conducted with a sample of prisoners in a maximum-security facility in Paris, this article outlines the major challenges relating to access, data collection, and
Lila Kazemian
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Criminology, EarlyView.Abstract Research on how delinquent peer associations affect individuals’ life courses is limited. This paper addresses this gap by examining delinquent peer network characteristics and their impact on offending trajectories through social network analysis (SNA) and group‐based trajectory modeling (GBTM).
Daniel Trovato
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Criminology, EarlyView.Abstract We investigate how the affordances of an online context shape the processes of social learning. Using a dataset of more than 11,000 posts from the fraud subdread on the dark web forum Dread, we examine how affordances of platform governance, connectivity, anonymity, invisibility, asynchronicity, and limited oversight influence the components ...
Fangzhou Wang, Timothy Dickinson
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The wider network of social relationships and desistance from crime
Criminology, EarlyView.Abstract Prior research has focused on marriage as a key relationship associated with crime cessation. Yet particularly within the contemporary context, relationships with parents, peers, and other family members may also foster or inhibit progress toward desistance.
Peggy C. Giordano +4 more
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Criminology &Public Policy, EarlyView.Abstract Research summary Crime and violence continue to be problems that plague urban areas across the United States and the globe. One key approach for responding to these problems is “focused deterrence” which includes programs that prevent criminal behavior by blending criminal justice, social service, and community‐based action.
Anthony A. Braga +2 more
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Suburban Bliss or Disillusionment - Why Do Terrorists Quit?
Journal for Deradicalization, 2016 This study explores the explanatory value of two theories of desistance – the cessation of criminal behavior – in explaining why 27 individuals left the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq (ISIS).
Liesbeth van der Heide, Robbert Huurman
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Higher Education and Desistance From Crime
Irish Journal of Academic PracticePrisoners are one of the most socially and economically disadvantaged groups in society, with low levels of educational attainment and involvement in higher education.
Nicola Hughes
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Tagging the Emirate: Language, Coordination and the Taliban's Digital Pursuit of Legitimacy
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how political actors leverage social media in Afghanistan as a tool for political legitimation. Framing social media as a potential supply of legitimacy, it analysed X (formerly known as Twitter) content posted by the former Afghan government, humanitarian and Taliban political accounts between January 2020 and December ...
Hannah Oates
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Criminal desistance in Chilean women who have been deprived of liberty
Revista Criminalidad, 2019 Diverse investigations have studied the phenomenon of criminal desistance in women, evincing characteristic factors for this population. The objective of this study was to explore a predictive model of the female criminal desistance from the psychosocial
Ricardo Pérez-Luco Arenas +2 more
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Désistance, religion et spiritualité : religion, spiritualité et processus de désistance
CriminologieLa religion et la spiritualité ont toujours occupé une place au sein de la société, variable selon les époques. Néanmoins, les recherches s’intéressant à leur place dans le processus de sortie de la délinquance sont limitées dans le champ de la ...
Lucie Pelz, Fabienne Glowacz
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