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Reducing cartel recruitment is the only way to lower violence in Mexico [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Every year, Mexican cartels lose many members due to conflict with other cartels and arrests. Yet, despite their losses, cartels have managed to increase violence for years. We address this puzzle by leveraging data on the number of homicides, missing persons and arrests in Mexico for the past ten years, along with information on the interactions among
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“Sorting Things out”: A Scoping Review of Sexual Homicide Typologies
Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sexual homicides are complex crimes that have been the focus of numerous classification systems aimed at aiding investigations, understanding offender behavior, and informing treatment plans. Over the past 25 years, a variety of typologies have been developed to categorize these offenses.
Eric Beauregard, Julien Chopin
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Women accused of killing with others: Experiences of the Scottish criminal justice system
The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, Volume 61, Issue 4, Page 484-501, December 2022., 2022 Abstract This article examines homicide cases in which women have been accused of killing alongside another person or persons – an area which until now has not been examined in a Scottish context. The findings presented demonstrate that being accused of killing with another person or persons can have particularly adverse effects for women: claims of ...
Rachel McPherson
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BMC Public Health, 2022 Objectives Homicide rate is associated with a large variety of factors and therefore unevenly distributed over time and space. This study aims to explore homicide patterns and their spatial associations with different socioeconomic and built-environment ...
Alireza Mohammadi +6 more
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Detecting duplicates in a homicide registry using a Bayesian partitioning approach [PDF]
Annals of Applied Statistics 2014, Vol. 8, No. 4, 2404-2434, 2014 Finding duplicates in homicide registries is an important step in keeping an accurate account of lethal violence. This task is not trivial when unique identifiers of the individuals are not available, and it is especially challenging when records are subject to errors and missing values.
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Beyond Legal Rights: Understanding Mental Health and Autonomy in Criminal Self‐Representation
Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This qualitative study examines criminal defendants who waived legal representation to self‐represent in court. Through interviews with 16 participants and courtroom observations, findings reveal intersecting factors driving this decision: mental health challenges, desire for autonomy, attorney mistrust, dissatisfaction with past legal ...
Shai Farber
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Brazilian prisons in times of mass incarceration: Ambivalent transformations
The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, Volume 61, Issue 4, Page 502-518, December 2022., 2022 Abstract Most of the scholarship on the ‘punitive turn’ has claimed that there have been two main trends in punishment since the 1970s: the rise of incarceration rates (quantitative dimension) and the worsening of prison conditions (qualitative dimension).
Luiz Dal Santo
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Crime prediction through urban metrics and statistical learning [PDF]
Physica A 505, 435-443 (2018), 2017 Understanding the causes of crime is a longstanding issue in researcher's agenda. While it is a hard task to extract causality from data, several linear models have been proposed to predict crime through the existing correlations between crime and urban metrics.
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Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Treatment goals for offenders with mental disorders include restoring and maintaining health, establishing social participation and preventing negative outcomes, including further offending. The development of patient insight into their prior offences may facilitate their reintegration into society and prevent further harms. Aims To
Ikuko Arakawa +3 more
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Domestic homicide in Maputo Province, Mozambique
Forensic Science International: Synergy, 2020 Background: Domestic Homicide is the most extreme form of domestic violence reported worldwide. Although in Mozambique there are public reports of domestic homicide, no research has been published that describes its pattern.
Casimiro Minerva Macucha +1 more
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