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Victim-Offender Overlap, The
Chad Posick
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2017-05-24
The Victim-Offender OverlapIntroductionSince the foundational work in victimology at the turn of the 20th century, researchers have acknowledged a rel...
Victimization Patterns and Trends
Janet Lauritsen
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Victimization Patterns and Trends Introduction Key insights about crime have been derived from the study of victimization patterns and tren...
Victimization, Adolescent
Marie Skubak Tillyer, Marissa E. Hinton
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2018-01-11
Adolescent VictimizationIntroductionBecause not all crimes are reported to law enforcement, researchers have generally used survey data collected from...
Victimization, Biosocial Theories of
Jamie Vaske
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2017-09-27
Biosocial Theories of VictimizationIntroductionSince the late 1990s, research has begun to explore how biology can fit within our understanding of vic...
Victimization, Repeat
Louise Nicholas, Graham Farrell
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Repeat Victimization Introduction Repeat victimization refers to the repeated criminal victimization of a person, household, place, business, v...
Victimization, Vicarious and Related Forms of Secondary Traumatization
Kelly E. Knight, Colter Ellis, Samuel T. Murphy, Heather Olson, Greer Wagner, Terra Dion, Rachel Gemar
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2018-04-26
Vicarious Victimization and Related Forms of Secondary TraumatizationIntroductionVicarious victimization is a process that results from repeated empat...
Victimless Crime
Robin Fletcher
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2019-10-30
Victimless CrimeIntroductionThere is no real definition of a “victimless crime” because crimes of this nature do not really exist. There are however a...
Violence Against Women
Walter S. DeKeseredy
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2012-05-23
Violence Against WomenIntroductionViolence against women takes many shapes and forms, such as physical assaults on marital/cohabiting partners, separa...
Violence, Youth
Anthony Peguero
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2015-09-29
Youth Violence Introduction According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, youth violence is a top public health concern because...
Violent Crime
Richard Rosenfeld
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Violent Crime Introduction Violent crimes are violations of criminal law that involve the intentional use of violence by one person against an...
White-Collar Crime
Sally S. Simpson
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
White-Collar Crime Introduction The meaning and definition of white-collar crime is deeply contested. Most criminologists recognize that white-...
White-Collar Crime, The Global Financial Crisis and
Justin Rex, Spencer Headworth
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2021-02-24
The Global Financial Crisis and White-Collar CrimeIntroductionNo senior Wall Street executives were imprisoned for actions that contributed to the glo...
White-Collar Crime, Women and
Mary Dodge
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2020-07-29
Women and White-Collar CrimeIntroductionThe inclusion of gender in the field of white-collar crime represents a relatively new and challenging area of...
Wilson, James Q.
Brian Forst
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2013-09-30
James Q. Wilson Introduction James Q. Wilson (b. 1931–d. 2012) was, by many accounts, the most influential criminal justice scholar of the 20t...
Wolfgang, Marvin
N. A. Weihe, Edna Erez
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2021-08-25
Marvin WolfgangIntroductionFew contemporary criminologists have made more of an impact in the field of criminology than Marvin Eugene Wolfgang. He was...
Women, Girls, and Reentry
Kayla Marie Hoskins
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2018-05-24
Women, Girls, and ReentryIntroductionIn the past, criminal justice approaches were generally designed to respond to male crime because the court-invol...
Wrongful Conviction
Marvin Zalman
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2012-07-24
Wrongful ConvictionIntroduction“Wrongful conviction,” an ambiguous term, has come to refer to the convictions of factually innocent persons and is use...
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