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Building blocks of criminal investigations: A novel vignette study on investigative decision‐making
Legal and Criminological Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Aim This study investigates the decision‐making processes of Dutch district police teams during high‐volume criminal investigations, exploring which investigative activities are selected and explaining variation across teams. Additionally, we present the focal concerns guiding decisions in these investigations.
Natascha de Leeuw +2 more
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Risk and vulnerability in knife‐related crime: Insights from official data
Legal and Criminological Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Purpose This study examines psychological and personal differences among young males engaged in violent knife offending, violent non‐knife offending, and non‐violent offending within a Youth Justice Service in London. By distinguishing knife‐related crime from other forms of violence, the research aims to identify unique psychosocial ...
Ana Figueira, Emma Alleyne
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Legal and Criminological Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Purpose Existing research has conceptualized criminal expertise among sexual offenders through the combined examination of modus operandi sophistication and detection avoidance strategies. This study investigated whether forensic and investigative awareness strategies, considered independently from the modus operandi, constitute a meaningful ...
Alexandra Ferreira De Amorim +2 more
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PLoS ONELittle is known about intimate partner homicide (IPH) perpetrator´s healthcare contacts and mental health problems before the killing. The aim was to compare male and female IPH perpetrators with matched controls from the general population by analysing ...
Solveig Lövestad +3 more
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Jealous Men but Evil Women: The Double Standard in Cases of Domestic Homicide [PDF]
, 2015 In 1989, Sara Thornton killed her abusive husband with a knife, after years of abuse and threats to her daughter. She was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. Also in 1989, Kiranjit Ahluwalia soaked her husband’s bedclothes with petrol
Gavin, Helen
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Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Medical anthropologists have long shown how hospitals function as spaces of both care and control, yet the entanglement of policing and trauma care remains understudied. This paper offers an ethnographic account of how trauma surgeons in a Los Angeles County hospital navigate the embedded presence of police within their clinical work.
Emily Virginia Jones
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Homicide and the Night-time Economy: Report to the Criminology Research Council
, 2016 Criminologists overwhelmingly acknowledge a strong relation between alcohol, drinking and a range of violent crimes including homicide. Less is known about the actual scenarios and patterns – in particular, whether or not the worst violent effects of ...
Tomsen, Stephen A. (R12247) +1 more
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Mercy: A Right and a Privilege
Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Many accounts of mercy nowadays are morally neutral; agents show mercy when they impose less harm than they might have, whether or not such harm would have been permissible. More morally infused perspectives are often dismissed; for they seem too narrow to capture the full gamut of ordinary usage.
Jessica Isserow
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