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Affordances, dread, and online fraud: Exploring and advancing social learning theory in online contexts

open access: yesCriminology, EarlyView.
Abstract We investigate how the affordances of an online context shape the processes of social learning. Using a dataset of more than 11,000 posts from the fraud subdread on the dark web forum Dread, we examine how affordances of platform governance, connectivity, anonymity, invisibility, asynchronicity, and limited oversight influence the components ...
Fangzhou Wang, Timothy Dickinson
wiley   +1 more source

Citation Analysis Shows Promise as an Effective Tool for Monograph Collection Citation Analysis Shows Promise as an Effective Tool for Monograph Collection Development. A Review of: Enger, K. B. (2009). Using citation analysis to develop core book collections in academic libraries. Library & Information Science Research, 31(2), 107‐112.

open access: yesEvidence Based Library and Information Practice, 2010
Objective – To test whether acquiring books written by authors of highly cited journal articles is an effective method for building a collection in the social sciences.Design – Comparison Study.Setting – Academic library at a public university in the US ...
Scott Marsalis
doaj  

Whose decision is it anyway? Defendants’ prior experience shapes prosecutorial case dismissal

open access: yesCriminology, EarlyView.
Abstract Studies of early case processing outcomes in the United States typically assume that decisions are made unilaterally by the prosecutor, such that prior contact with the legal system is universally associated with harsher outcomes for defendants.
R. R. Dunlea, Miranda A. Galvin
wiley   +1 more source

Absenteeism, organization and individual-related factors and their correlates: A case of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP)

open access: yes, 2008
The purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between absenteeism and the organization and individual-related factors in Bureau of Jail Management and Penology and suggest possible interventions that may address the absenteeism problem.
Foronda, Sheila Aguinea
core  

The complexity of neighborhood effects: A developmental and ecological framework for violent victimization

open access: yesCriminology, EarlyView.
Abstract Extensive research has established a link between low self‐control and child victimization. However, the specific neighborhood conditions under which low self‐control most strongly influences victimization have been little examined, and, more importantly, no previous studies have investigated the complex ways in which neighborhood context ...
Myunghee You, Brian J. Stults
wiley   +1 more source

Determinants of case outcomes in Rwanda's postgenocide gacaca courts

open access: yesCriminology, EarlyView.
Abstract Transitional justice trials have become a central mechanism for addressing mass violence and human rights violations, yet little is known about the determinants of case outcomes within these courts—particularly in domestic contexts. This study examines Rwanda's gacaca courts, a localized transitional justice system that tried people suspected ...
Hollie Nyseth Nzitatira   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Charting the Hidden City: Collecting Prison Social Network Data. [PDF]

open access: yesSoc Networks, 2022
Whichard C, Schaefer DR, Kreager DA.
europepmc   +1 more source

Thorsten Sellin. Pioneering in Penology. The Amsterdam houses of correction in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

open access: yes, 1949
Maes L. Th. Thorsten Sellin. Pioneering in Penology. The Amsterdam houses of correction in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. In: Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, tome 27, fasc. 1-2, 1949. pp.
Maes, L. Th.
core  

The wider network of social relationships and desistance from crime

open access: yesCriminology, EarlyView.
Abstract Prior research has focused on marriage as a key relationship associated with crime cessation. Yet particularly within the contemporary context, relationships with parents, peers, and other family members may also foster or inhibit progress toward desistance.
Peggy C. Giordano   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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