El Paso County - The Greenbook
... begin to estimate the size of the problem based on national, state and local statistics. National: According to the National Crime Victimization Survey, 85% of intimate partner violence victims were women (Rennision, 2001). Nearly 5.3 million intimate partner victimizations occur each year among U.S ...
... begin to estimate the size of the problem based on national, state and local statistics. National: According to the National Crime Victimization Survey, 85% of intimate partner violence victims were women (Rennision, 2001). Nearly 5.3 million intimate partner victimizations occur each year among U.S ...
Comorbid Personality Disorders and Substance Use Disorders of
... Dual and Triple Diagnoses by Anu Putkonen, Irma Kotilainen, Christian C. Joyed, and Jari Tiihonen Several studies have demonstrated that persons suffering from MMD are at increased risk for community violence, other violent offenses, and homicide, particularly if they have coexisting alcoholism or S ...
... Dual and Triple Diagnoses by Anu Putkonen, Irma Kotilainen, Christian C. Joyed, and Jari Tiihonen Several studies have demonstrated that persons suffering from MMD are at increased risk for community violence, other violent offenses, and homicide, particularly if they have coexisting alcoholism or S ...
Michalowski – What is Crime? 1 Raymond Michalowski
... “crime,” criminology has long struggled with the tensions between limiting itself to the study of violations of criminal law, and being the study of troubling acts and events that, while not illegal under criminal law, or in some cases, any law, represent significant sources of social injury. There ...
... “crime,” criminology has long struggled with the tensions between limiting itself to the study of violations of criminal law, and being the study of troubling acts and events that, while not illegal under criminal law, or in some cases, any law, represent significant sources of social injury. There ...
ACAPS, Other Situations of Violence in the Northern Triangle of
... Community organisations have disintegrated. The collapse of community involvement in public or advisory/consultative activities increases the isolation and vulnerability of populations, and puts the socially and economically vulnerable at even greater risk. Forced Displacement The high levels of v ...
... Community organisations have disintegrated. The collapse of community involvement in public or advisory/consultative activities increases the isolation and vulnerability of populations, and puts the socially and economically vulnerable at even greater risk. Forced Displacement The high levels of v ...
International Journal of Forensic Mental Health
... Jodi L. Viljoen,Twila Wingrove, and Nancy L. Ryba Adjudicative competence evaluations are commonly requested for adult criminal defendants, and are becoming increasingly common among juvenile defendants as well. However, we do not have an understanding of what information judges seek in these evalua ...
... Jodi L. Viljoen,Twila Wingrove, and Nancy L. Ryba Adjudicative competence evaluations are commonly requested for adult criminal defendants, and are becoming increasingly common among juvenile defendants as well. However, we do not have an understanding of what information judges seek in these evalua ...
CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN AMERICA
... they find a horrible mess, with furniture tipped over and china broken on the floor. The television and DVD player are gone. They both start to tremble. A place that they believed was private and safe had been torn open and violated. A major crime happens somewhere in America every few seconds. But ...
... they find a horrible mess, with furniture tipped over and china broken on the floor. The television and DVD player are gone. They both start to tremble. A place that they believed was private and safe had been torn open and violated. A major crime happens somewhere in America every few seconds. But ...
Recidivism: Costs and Solutions
... now finds the financial burden too much to bear. For the first time in history, states’ expenditures on corrections are being cut and the question much be asked, what about public safety? The crime control policy in the United States for the past several decades has been incapacitation. This theory ...
... now finds the financial burden too much to bear. For the first time in history, states’ expenditures on corrections are being cut and the question much be asked, what about public safety? The crime control policy in the United States for the past several decades has been incapacitation. This theory ...
Criminology Therapy and Comparative
... life, well before the age of criminal responsibility. For example, as children, LCP offenders are typically physically aggressive, extremely difficult to manage, and unruly. As adolescents, LCP offenders engage in an array of delinquent activities, such as drinking alcohol, using and abusing drugs, ...
... life, well before the age of criminal responsibility. For example, as children, LCP offenders are typically physically aggressive, extremely difficult to manage, and unruly. As adolescents, LCP offenders engage in an array of delinquent activities, such as drinking alcohol, using and abusing drugs, ...
Boosting the Life Chances of Young Men of Color
... research to be making a difference. It first examines the special challenges and struggles of young men of color in the labor market, including problems related to their disproportionate involvement in the criminal justice system and their experiences in the educational system. Young men of color ha ...
... research to be making a difference. It first examines the special challenges and struggles of young men of color in the labor market, including problems related to their disproportionate involvement in the criminal justice system and their experiences in the educational system. Young men of color ha ...
The Relationship between Age Structure and
... tionship in the United States. The majority of studies demonstrating the strong temporal association between age structure and crime rates are based on U.S. national data and essentially estimate an average effect of age structure on crime in the United States, a country with distinctive regional cu ...
... tionship in the United States. The majority of studies demonstrating the strong temporal association between age structure and crime rates are based on U.S. national data and essentially estimate an average effect of age structure on crime in the United States, a country with distinctive regional cu ...
Lecture_Four-Deterre..
... accidents decrease Injury accidents decrease Accidents involving drinking under the influence decrease ...
... accidents decrease Injury accidents decrease Accidents involving drinking under the influence decrease ...
Part I Strategies to Estimate Deterrence Part II
... accidents decrease Injury accidents decrease Accidents involving drinking under the influence decrease ...
... accidents decrease Injury accidents decrease Accidents involving drinking under the influence decrease ...
OFFENDER RISK ASSESSMENT Guidelines for - CE
... scale may suffice: (a) How much money do you make? (b) What is your race? and (c) Do you belong to a socially disadvantaged group? Some practitioners may welcome such a scale. Unfortunately for these practitioners but fortunately for offenders and the field of corrections, the empirical evidence sup ...
... scale may suffice: (a) How much money do you make? (b) What is your race? and (c) Do you belong to a socially disadvantaged group? Some practitioners may welcome such a scale. Unfortunately for these practitioners but fortunately for offenders and the field of corrections, the empirical evidence sup ...
A Summary of DePaul University`s Research with Oxford Houses
... disorders, and past research has shown that many of these women have past experiences with physical, sexual, and emotional abuse. These issues led us to become interested in studying this special group of women. Sixty female Oxford House residents from across the United States were interviewed. We f ...
... disorders, and past research has shown that many of these women have past experiences with physical, sexual, and emotional abuse. These issues led us to become interested in studying this special group of women. Sixty female Oxford House residents from across the United States were interviewed. We f ...
Personal Violence by Strangers: An Extension
... shows that persons who spend evenings outside the home for their leisure time activities, such as attending movies and going to bars, suffer a higher risk of victimization than those who confine their leisure time to home activities. 22 An active lifestyle thus appears to influence victimization ris ...
... shows that persons who spend evenings outside the home for their leisure time activities, such as attending movies and going to bars, suffer a higher risk of victimization than those who confine their leisure time to home activities. 22 An active lifestyle thus appears to influence victimization ris ...
Explaining Recent Trends in US Homicide Rates
... Claims of a rather different sort, coming primarily from public officials, accompanied the drop in homicide rates in one city after another in the early 1990s. As happened in New York, the inclination to account for the local declines in terms of this or that special local initiative apparently was ...
... Claims of a rather different sort, coming primarily from public officials, accompanied the drop in homicide rates in one city after another in the early 1990s. As happened in New York, the inclination to account for the local declines in terms of this or that special local initiative apparently was ...
Workplace Violence - American Psychiatric Nurses Association
... whereas acts of physical violence that do not result in injury or nonphysical types of violence are not reported. Findorff, McGovern, and Sinclair (2005) found that 43% of physical violence and 61% of nonphysical violence went unreported. Several factors may explain the low incidence of reporting in ...
... whereas acts of physical violence that do not result in injury or nonphysical types of violence are not reported. Findorff, McGovern, and Sinclair (2005) found that 43% of physical violence and 61% of nonphysical violence went unreported. Several factors may explain the low incidence of reporting in ...
1 - Khayelitsha Commission of Inquiry
... were far better than in ‘black’ areas (Shaw, 2002; Cartwright, 1999). ‘Whites’ were provided with the illusion of living in a first world country. This was achieved because of the brutal policing and surveillance underpinned by pass laws and legislative separation and control. Thus crime statistics ...
... were far better than in ‘black’ areas (Shaw, 2002; Cartwright, 1999). ‘Whites’ were provided with the illusion of living in a first world country. This was achieved because of the brutal policing and surveillance underpinned by pass laws and legislative separation and control. Thus crime statistics ...
lecture 4 deterrence
... accidents decrease Injury accidents decrease Accidents involving drinking under the influence decrease ...
... accidents decrease Injury accidents decrease Accidents involving drinking under the influence decrease ...
Part I Strategies to Estimate Deterrence Part II
... accidents decrease Injury accidents decrease Accidents involving drinking under the influence decrease ...
... accidents decrease Injury accidents decrease Accidents involving drinking under the influence decrease ...
Strategies to Prevent Urban Violence
... violence use street outreach methods and provide supportive services. Philanthropic and medical community efforts to prevent youth violence are not that commonplace, although efforts appear to be growing in both areas. Some city trauma centers offer services to surviving gunshot victims in an attemp ...
... violence use street outreach methods and provide supportive services. Philanthropic and medical community efforts to prevent youth violence are not that commonplace, although efforts appear to be growing in both areas. Some city trauma centers offer services to surviving gunshot victims in an attemp ...
New Urbanism, Crime and the Suburbs
... Notwithstanding the many laudable goals of New Urbanism, the crime prevention dimensions to this theory are limited and lack both critical discussion and systematic evaluation. This absence of a crime dimension may relate in part, to the fact that “New Urbanism strives for a kind of utopian idea” (F ...
... Notwithstanding the many laudable goals of New Urbanism, the crime prevention dimensions to this theory are limited and lack both critical discussion and systematic evaluation. This absence of a crime dimension may relate in part, to the fact that “New Urbanism strives for a kind of utopian idea” (F ...
Fear of Crime Among Chinese Immigrants - ScholarWorks
... to simply assume that the observed associations will hold true even for samples from different socio-cultural backgrounds. Whether such an assumption is viable, however, is fundamentally an empirical matter. In fact, there exists some evidence suggesting that the assumption might not hold water when ...
... to simply assume that the observed associations will hold true even for samples from different socio-cultural backgrounds. Whether such an assumption is viable, however, is fundamentally an empirical matter. In fact, there exists some evidence suggesting that the assumption might not hold water when ...
The Relationship Between Economic Conditions, Policing, and
... crime is a rational act based on opportunity and risk on the part of the offender. This can be a questionable assumption to make. There is much evidence that criminals—at best—engage in limited rational decision making and, therefore, these theories may have limited explanatory power. Such explanati ...
... crime is a rational act based on opportunity and risk on the part of the offender. This can be a questionable assumption to make. There is much evidence that criminals—at best—engage in limited rational decision making and, therefore, these theories may have limited explanatory power. Such explanati ...
Overcrowding and violence in federal correctional
... more concerned with the impact of reduced space on living organisms. Although more than 273 million people inhabit just the United States (Prewitt, 2000), until recently, behavioral scientists largely ignored the issue of population density as it relates to human behavior (Lawrence, 1974). People cr ...
... more concerned with the impact of reduced space on living organisms. Although more than 273 million people inhabit just the United States (Prewitt, 2000), until recently, behavioral scientists largely ignored the issue of population density as it relates to human behavior (Lawrence, 1974). People cr ...