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Community experiences of organised crime in Scotland [PDF]

, 2018
The research explored community experiences of serious organised crime in Scotland (SOC). The report provides information on the nature and extent of the impact of SOC on everyday life in the community, as well as offering suggestions for policy ...
Atkinson, C., Clark, A., Doyle, M., Fraser, A., Graham, W., Hamilton-Smith, N., Hobbs, D., McBride, M.   +7 more
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Educational pathways and outcomes for care‐experienced children: A 16‐year longitudinal study

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Children who are removed from their birth families during childhood—termed care‐experienced—can be at risk for lower educational attainment and poorer school experiences, often linked to deprivation and behavioural factors. However, research often uses aggregated measures that obscure the complexities of care (e.g.
Emily Lowthian, Stuart Bedston, Olivia Deavall, Tom Crick, Lucy J. Griffiths, Ashley Akbari, Alex Lee, Gemma Hammerton, Jon Heron, Donald Forrester   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Criminal Aspects of Drug Trafficking [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2018
ABSTRACT: A very specific aspect of drug trafficking, but which circumscribes most of the serious forms of crime, is not to provide a doctrinal and legislative definition of an operational definition. A quantitative analysis followed by another qualitative one may at best reflect criminological aspects related to the visible side of this type of crime.
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Taking Fuel From the Fire: Regulating the Introduction of Rape Myth Infused and Irrelevant Evidence About Complainants in Rape Trials

Behavioral 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

Cross Border Criminalities and Insecurity Crisis in Nigeria: An Empirical Analysis of International Borders in Cross River State

Journal of Central and Eastern European African Studies
The study, titled Cross Border Criminalities and Insecurity Crisis in Nigeria: Empirical Analysis of International Border in Cross River State, was conducted with the primary goal of determining the extent to which cross-border criminality in Cross ...
Venatius Ukor, George K. Kati, Michael Bayode   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Anti-Nirvana: crime, culture and instrumentalism in the age of insecurity [PDF]

, 2005
‘Anti-Nirvana’ explores the relationship between consumer culture, media and criminal motivations. It has appeared consistently on the list of the top-ten most-read articles in this award-winning international journal, and it mounts a serious neo ...
Baudrillard, J., Bauman, Z., Bauman, Z., Beck, U., Beck, U., Bourdieu, P., Bourdieu, P., Byrne, D., Castells, M., Chesney-Lind, M., Davis, M., Debord, G., Downes, D., Eagleton, T., Elias, N., Faludi, S., Fletcher, J., Freud, S., Freud, S., Gray, J., Habermas, J., Hall, S., Hall, Steve, Hobsbawm, E., Horne, R., Hutton, W., Jenks, C., Lasch, C., Lasch, C., Lea, J., MacInnes, J., Miller, W. B., Shover, N., Simon Winlow, Steve Hall, Sumner, C., Taylor, I., Westergaard, J. H., Willis, P., Wilson, W. J., Winlow, S., Winlow, S., Winlow, S., Young, J.   +43 more
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The criminal careers of Australian drug traffickers

International Journal of Drug Policy
Very few studies have examined the criminal careers of drug traffickers. Our aim in this study was to determine (a) the percentage of drug traffickers who cease involvement in crime following their first conviction for drug trafficking, (b) the factors that affect the likelihood and speed of re-offending among drug traffickers, (c) the factors that ...
Don Weatherburn, Michael Farrell, Wai-Yin Wan, Sara Rahman   +3 more
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Drug regulation and criminalization in Brazil

Estudos de Psicologia (Campinas), 2023
Abstract Objective The present study aims to evaluate, through a narrative review of the literature, how State’s control has exercised regulation of drug use throughout the history of Brazil. Method Books, articles from indexed academic journals, complete works presented at conferences and historical documents available on the internet relating to ...
Antonio Gomes de Castro Neto, André de Brito Couto Filho   +1 more
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Material Deprivation, Psychological Distress, and Substance Use Among Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Adolescents: The Mediating Roles of Social Relationships

Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Previous research on the mediating role of the quality of social relationships between material deprivation and adolescent health has predominantly utilized samples from mainstream populations to examine mental health outcomes, neglecting the critical need to explore behavioral health outcomes, such as substance use, particularly in ...
Zewei Liu, Ji‐Kang Chen
wiley   +1 more source

Drug Trafficking and Youth Mortality in Brazil: An Expression of Human Rights’ Violations

Opinión Jurídica, 2018
This paper aims to analyze the intersectional problematic that surrounds the vio-lations of adolescents’ human rights that happen in Brazil nowadays.
Ana Paula Motta Costa, Dani Rudinicki, Julia Maia Goldani   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source