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Crime Prevention, Delinquency and
Dena Carson
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2017-02-28
Delinquency and Crime PreventionIntroductionThe prevention of crime and delinquency is an important area of concern for both researchers and practitio...
Crime Prevention, Situational
Martha J. Smith
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2011-04-14
Situational Crime Prevention Introduction Situational crime prevention (SCP) seeks to reduce the number of crime events by focusing on limiting...
Crime Prevention, Voluntary Organizations and
Tim Goddard, Christina Bellasalma
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2021-07-28
Voluntary Organizations and Crime PreventionIntroductionVoluntary, non-state and nonprofit organizations are commonplace in many regions as principal ...
Crime Trends
Eric P. Baumer
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Crime Trends Introduction Although there are a few rich historical studies of crime trends and some research on both cross-national and American...
Crime Victims' Rights Movement
Mary Boland
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2013-08-26
Crime Victims’ Rights Movement Introduction The modern crime victims’ rights movement (CVRM) emerged as a response to World War II atrocities....
Crime, (In)Security, and Islam
Basia Spalek, Laura Zahra McDonald, Dan Silk, Raquel Silva
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2013-09-30
Crime, (in)Security, and Islam Introduction Traditionally within criminology, minorities in relation to issues around crime and security have ...
Crime, Campus
John J. Sloan
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2020-11-24
Campus CrimeIntroductionDespite the fact that deviance in all its forms has existed on college and university campuses since their inception, criminol...
Criminal Career Research
Lila Kazemian
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Criminal Career Research Introduction Criminal career research is concerned with changes in offending patterns over time. In 1983, the Nati...
Criminal Decision Making, Emotions in
Jean-Louis van Gelder
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2016-11-28
Emotions in Criminal Decision MakingIntroductionExceptions aside, emotional processes have failed to occupy a central position in criminological thoug...
Criminal Justice Data Sources
Lee Slocum
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2013-05-28
Criminal Justice Data Sources Introduction Early data on crime and the criminal justice system were the product of the “moral statistics” move...
Criminal Justice Ethics
John Kleinig
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Criminal Justice Ethics Introduction The scope of criminal justice ethics is usually construed narrowly to encompass a range of concrete and m...
Criminal Justice Reform, Politics of
Garrick Percival
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2018-04-26
Politics of Criminal Justice ReformIntroductionSince the mid-1970s, criminal justice policy in the United States has placed primary emphasis on punish...
Criminal Justice System, Discretion in the
Shawn D. Bushway, Brian Forst
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Discretion in the Criminal Justice System Introduction Discretion is the latitude granted officials to act under a formal set of rules and in a p...
Criminal Records
Sarah Lageson, Christiane Schwarz
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2017-09-27
Criminal RecordsIntroductionCriminal records are increasingly used in many aspects of an individual’s life, but there is widespread ambiguity around t...
Criminal Retaliation
Scott Jacques
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Criminal Retaliation Introduction Retaliation is about getting even. Rather than relying on the state for help, some victims take the law into ...
Criminal Talk
Timothy Dickinson, Jessica Morales
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2018-07-24
Criminal TalkIntroductionCriminologists have long noted the varied roles that criminal talk, defined herein as any form of verbal communication occurr...
Criminology and Political Science
Lisa L. Miller, Kevin H. Wozniak
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2013-08-26
Criminology and Political Science Introduction As scholars interested in political processes, outcomes, behavior, and attitudes, political sci...
Criminology of Genocide, The
Wenona Rymond-Richmond
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2013-09-30
The Criminology of Genocide Introduction Genocide, often referred to as the “crime of crimes,” has produced hundreds of millions of murdered, ...
Critical Criminology
Michael J. Lynch
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2010-02-15
Critical Criminology Introduction Like orthodox criminology, critical criminology has developed numerous specialties, and thus it is no lon...
Cross-National Crime
Janet Stamatel
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Cross-National CrimeIntroductionThe terms “cross-national criminology,” “international criminology,” and “comparative criminology” are often used inte...
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