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Impact of Information and Communication Technology on curbing library crimes in Academic Libraries in Nigeria

open access: yes, 2019
The study adopted survey research design to investigate Impact of Information and Communication Technology on Curbing Library Crimes in Academic Libraries in Nigeria.
Okpokwasili, Nonyelum P.
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Material Deprivation, Psychological Distress, and Substance Use Among Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Adolescents: The Mediating Roles of Social Relationships

open access: yesBehavioral 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

The Perception of Small Crime

open access: yes
Violations of social norms can be costly to society and they are, in the case of large crimes, followed by prosecution. Minor misbehaviors — small crimes — do not usually result in legal proceedings.
Magnus, J.R.   +2 more
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Five Decades of Research on Rape Myths and Victim Interpretation

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Over the past 5 decades of social science research, scholars have examined false narratives and beliefs associated with rape and sexual assault (often called “rape myths”). This scoping review employs an innovative technique to sample and describe a large cohort of scholarly articles that investigate sexual assault victim interpretation and ...
Elizabeth Trudeau, Ruth Carmi
wiley   +1 more source

Methodological challenges in empirical research on environmental crimes

open access: yes
Green criminology is still considered a relatively new area of research, gaining momentum among scholars in the 2000s. Despite the increasing attention it has received in recent years, there remains a notable scarcity of quantitative studies in this ...
CECILIA MENEGHINI, SERENA FAVARIN
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Differences in Immediate and Delayed Suggestibility Among Children With Dyslexia and Controls

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The primary aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between dyslexia and suggestibility in children, and the extent to which this relationship is accounted for by performance on Word Tasks. Participants comprised 95 children with dyslexia and 109 controls.
Gisli Gudjonsson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Latent Transition Analysis of Traditional Bullying and Cyberbullying Among Chinese Adolescents: Associations With Life Satisfaction and Depression

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Bullying, both traditional and cyber, has become a public health concern. Nevertheless, few studies have differentiated between traditional bullying and cyberbullying to examine how their interplay shapes distinct bullying involvement profiles and how these profiles link with well‐being and mental health outcomes.
Xingzhou Zhang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Tree of Life Synagogue Attack: A Terrorist Radicalization Assessment Protocol‐18 Examination of Pre‐Attack Warnings and Post‐Attack Contagion and Copycat Effects

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This is a retrospective case study of an antisemitic lone actor terrorist who completed the deadliest attack against the Jewish community in American history. The analysis through the lens of the Terrorist Radicalization Assessment Protocol (TRAP‐18) finds that 72% of the warning indicators were present, including four proximal warning ...
Molly Amman, Julia Kupper, J. Reid Meloy
wiley   +1 more source

Welfare Payments and Crime [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper tests the hypothesis that the timing of welfare payments affects criminal activity. Analysis of daily reported incidents of major crimes in twelve U.S. cities reveals an increase in crime over the course of monthly welfare payment cycles. This
C. Fritz Foley
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