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The Sexual Recidivism Rates of Women Are Still Low: An Updated Meta‐Analysis

open access: yesCriminal Behaviour and Mental Health, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Compared to men, women are less likely to sexual offend. Previous reviews found low rates of sexual recidivism among women. The last published meta‐analysis was based on studies from before 2010. Aims Conduct an updated meta‐analysis of the sexual recidivism rates of women returned to the community.
R. Karl Hanson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Divide and conquer? Identity, threat, and moral justification of violence at the G20

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Psychology, 2019
Objective During the 2014 Brisbane G20 meeting, new police powers enabled segregation of protesters into specific protest alliances and groups. This study used this unique context to quantitatively test the Elaborated Social Identity Model of crowd ...
Laura J. Ferris   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Policing Guns and Youth Violence

open access: yesThe Future of Children, 2002
To combat the epidemic of youth gun violence in the 1980s and 1990s, law enforcement agencies across the United States adopted a variety of innovative strategies. This article presents case studies of eight cities' efforts to police gun crime. Some cities emphasized police–citizen partnerships to address youth violence, whereas others focused on ...
openaire   +4 more sources

Curbing domestic violence: instantiating C-K theory with formal concept analysis and emergent self organizing maps. [PDF]

open access: yes
In this paper we propose a human-centered process for knowledge discovery from unstructured text that makes use of Formal Concept Analysis and Emergent Self Organizing Maps.
Dedene, Guido   +3 more
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"We Own the Night:" Amadou Diallo's Deadly Encounter with New York City's Street Crimes Unit [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
Amadou Diallo died in a hail of police bullets in February 1999. The police thought Diallo was a serial rapist who was drawing a pistol against them, but Diallo was an innocent man who was unarmed.
Timothy Lynch
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Tolerated or Celebrated? Black Men in Doctoral Counselor Education Programs

open access: yesCounselor Education and Supervision, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Black students face more difficulties when it comes to gaining doctoral degrees compared to other races. However, not enough is known about Black men in doctoral counselor education (CE) programs. Using interpretive phenomenological analysis and guided by Black Critical Theory, we explored the lived experiences of 10 Black men in doctoral CE ...
Demetrius Cofield   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Framing Modern Slavery: Do Stakeholders Talk Past Each Other?

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Administrative Sciences / Revue Canadienne des Sciences de l'Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Modern slavery literature has thus far mostly adopted a downstream perspective, in the sense that researchers investigated corporate actors' responses after the enactment of transparency legislation. The common finding is that corporate disclosure is poor and ineffective, contributing to a failure to eradicate modern slavery.
Sylvain Durocher   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Democratización subnacional a la luz de los usos políticos del poder de policía del estado santiagueño durante el juarismo, 1995-2004

open access: yesNuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2012
This thesis analyzes the relationship between politics and violence in democracy and contrast to the particular uses and meanings of institutional violence present in the political practices of a political regime: the Juarismo in Santiago del Estero ...
Celeste Schnyder
doaj   +1 more source

How emergent self organizing maps can help counter domestic violence. [PDF]

open access: yes
Topographic maps are an appealing exploratory instrument for discovering new knowledge from databases. During the past years, new types of Self Organizing Maps (SOM) were introduced in the literature, including the recent Emergent SOM.
Dedene, Guido   +4 more
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Gun Enforcement and Gun Violence Prevention Practices among Local Law Enforcement Agencies: A Research and Policy Brief [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Controlling gun crime continues to be a difficult challenge for policymakers and practitioners in the United States. In 2009, there were roughly 11,000 murders with firearms in the United State and another 326,000 non-fatal violent crimes with guns . The
Christopher S. Koper
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