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Psychosocial functioning of drug treatment court clients : a study of the prosecutor's files in Ghent [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Purpose – Problem solving courts are a result of the therapeutic jurisprudence movement. Drug treatment courts (DTCs), for instance, aim to divert substance using offenders away from the criminal justice system (CJS) to ...
Dekkers, Anne   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

Risk and resilience:Crime and violence prevention in Aboriginal communities [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
Developmental prevention involves the manipulation of multiple risk and protective factors early in developmental pathways that lead to offending, often at transition points between life phases.
Herd, Bruce   +2 more
core   +1 more source

The Four Ways of Eco-global Criminology

open access: yesInternational 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
doaj   +1 more source

Contextual Compliance: Situational and Subjective Cost-Benefit Decisions about Pesticides by Chinese Farmers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This article analyzes how cost-benefit calculation influences compliance with pesticide regulation by Chinese farmers. Building on a study including 150 farmers and experts, it studies how operational costs and benefits and deterrence affect compliance ...
Van der Heijden, Jeroen   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Toxic State–Corporate Crimes, Neo-liberalism and Green Criminology: The Hazards and Legacies of the Oil, Chemical and Mineral Industries

open access: yesInternational Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2013
This paper uses examples from the history and practices of multi-national and large companies in the oil, chemical and asbestos industries to examine their legal and illegal despoiling and destruction of the environment and impact on human and non-human ...
Vincenzo Ruggiero, Nigel South
doaj   +1 more source

Aptamer Engineering: Strategies for Discovering Functional Nucleic Acids for Next‐Generation Diagnostics and Biosensing

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
The advent of aptamers has highlighted their potential as alternatives to antibodies, overcoming limitations of structural instability and production cost. However, conventional approaches such as SELEX remain slow and labor‐intensive. This review examines recent advances in aptamer engineering, emphasizing in vitro and AI‐driven in silico strategies ...
John V. L. Nguyen   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Writs of Habeas Corpus for Nonhuman Primates in the United States and the Nonhuman Rights Project: Legal Processes and Arguments Used to Secure Nonhuman Animal Rights

open access: yesInternational Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2023
Questions concerning (nonhuman) animal rights have been increasingly addressed within the criminological literature due to growing interest in green criminology.
Michael J Lynch
doaj   +1 more source

Mediating punitiveness: understanding public attitudes towards work-related fatality cases [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This paper concerns an empirical investigation into public attitudes towards work-related fatality cases, where organizational offenders cause the death of workers or members of the public.
Eser A.   +18 more
core   +1 more source

Understanding Youth Assaults of Police Officers in Australia: A Power Threat Meaning Framework Analysis

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores youth violence towards police officers in Australia through the Power Threat Meaning Framework (PTMF) to better understand the underlying factors contributing to such violence; focusing on power dynamics, childhood adversity, and trauma.
Dimitra Lattas   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Environmental justice: a criminological perspective

open access: yesEnvironmental Research Letters, 2015
This article examines studies related to environmental justice in the criminological literature and from a criminological perspective. Criminologists have long been concerned with injustices in the criminal justice system related to the enforcement of ...
Michael J Lynch   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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