Criminology - Oxford Bibliographies
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...
Cross-Sectional Research Designs in Criminology and Criminal Justice
James V. Ray
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2020-04-22
Cross-Sectional Research Designs in Criminology and Criminal JusticeIntroductionCross-sectional research allows researchers to study a phenomenon or t...
Cultural Criminology
Keith Hayward
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Cultural Criminology Introduction Cultural criminology is a distinct theoretical, methodological, and interventionist approach to the study of...
Cultural Theories
Thomas Holt
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Cultural Theories Introduction Cultural theories of crime provide distinct frameworks to understand the influence of human agency, social force...
Cybercrime
Thomas Holt
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Cybercrime Introduction There is no standard unit of analysis, and multiple terms are used to describe offenses often classified as cybercrim...
Cybercrime Investigations and Prosecutions
David Maimon, Donald E. Hunt
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
Cybercrime Investigations and ProsecutionsIntroductionOfficial crime statistics from around the globe suggest that violent and property crime rates ha...
Cycle of Violence
Preeti Chauhan, Cathy Spatz Widom
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2014-01-30
Cycle of Violence Introduction Several different phenomena are included under the broad concept of the cycle of violence. Originally, the cycl...
Deadly Force
Philip M. Stinson
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2020-11-24
Deadly ForceIntroductionDeadly force refers to any use of force by a police officer that could result in the imposition of serious bodily injury or de...
Defining "Success" in Corrections and Reentry
Michaela Soyer
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2020-04-22
Defining "Success" in Corrections and ReentryIntroductionDefining what exactly constitutes successful reentry into society is challenging. Is abstaini...
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