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Qualitative Methods in Criminology
Jamie Fader
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
Qualitative Methods in CriminologyIntroductionQualitative research formed the basis of much of the early American criminological canon. In the mid-20t...
Queer Criminology
Emily Lenning
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2018-09-25
Queer CriminologyIntroductionRelative to other criminologies, queer criminology is still in its infancy and has only really flourished in the 21st cen...
Race and Sentencing Research Advancements
Ellen Donnelly, Emily Tavares-Sanches
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2022-05-26
Race and Sentencing Research AdvancementsIntroductionRace and ethnicity have profound impacts on the sentencing of people convicted for criminal offen...
Race, Ethnicity, Crime, and Justice
Ramiro Martínez
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Race, Ethnicity, Crime, and Justice Introduction The study of race, ethnicity, crime, and justice usually involves research on racial and ethni...
Racial Threat Hypothesis
Xia Wang, Natalie Todak
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2016-07-27
Racial Threat HypothesisIntroductionSituated within the conflict perspective, the racial threat hypothesis argues that members of the majority group—i...
Racial Profiling
Roger Dunham, Jeff Rojek
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Racial Profiling Introduction One of the most significant problems facing all societies, and American society in particular, is the use of race...
Rape and Sexual Assault
Janet Lauritsen
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2011-04-14
Rape and Sexual Assault Introduction Scholarly attention to the subject of rape and sexual assault involves a wide array of issues, including a...
Rape, Fear of
Adam J. Pritchard
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2017-06-27
Fear of RapeIntroductionMuch of the research on the topic of fear of rape is considered to be a sub-area of the broader study of fear of crime. Resear...
Rational Choice Theories
John Paul Wright
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Rational Choice Theories Introduction Rational choice theory and its assumptions about human behavior have been integrated into numerous cr...
Rehabilitation
Beth M. Huebner, Victoria Inzana
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
RehabilitationIntroductionRehabilitation is a central goal of the correctional system. This goal rests on the assumption that individuals can be treat...
Religion and Crime
Sung Joon Jang
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2013-09-30
Religion and CrimeIntroductionScholarly discussion and empirical study of the religion-crime relationship goes back to the beginning of criminological...
Restorative Justice
Janet Lauritsen
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Restorative Justice Introduction Restorative justice refers to a general philosophy, model, or way of practicing justice that stands in contras...
Risk Assessment
Ashley A. Pritchard, Adam J. E. Blanchard, Kevin S. Douglas
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
Risk Assessment Introduction Violence risk assessment is the process of identifying the level of risk for future violence posed by offenders, ...
Routine Activity Theories
Per-Olof H. Wikström
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Routine Activity Theories Introduction Routine activity theory, like the related lifestyle-exposure theory, emerged as a key theoretical ap...
School Bullying
Lucy Bowes
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2014-06-30
School Bullying Introduction Bullying victimization began to be systematically researched only in the early 1970s following a number of suicid...
School Crime and Violence
Allison Payne
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2010-11-01
School Crime and Violence Introduction Although school-related deaths, violent victimizations in school, and overall school crime have declin...
School Safety, Security, and Discipline
Thomas J. Mowen, Emily Bragg
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2021-05-26
School Safety, Security, and DisciplineIntroductionThe safety of children and young adults in the hallways of schools across the United States remains...
Search Warrants
Naoki Kanaboshi
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2022-06-27
Search WarrantsIntroductionA search warrant is an order issued by the court that permits and commands the police to conduct a search and seize the evi...
Seasonality and Crime
Kristin Carbone-Lopez
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Seasonality and Crime Introduction There is a long history within criminology and related disciplines (such as psychology and psychiatry) of s...
Self-Control, The General Theory:
John Paul Wright
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
The General Theory: Self-Control Introduction The "General Theory" of self-control posited in Gottfredson and Hirschi 1990 (see General Ove...
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