inquiry into strategies to prevent high volume offending and
... offenders, and have attempted to develop strategies that will assist these young people, firstly to try to stop them from ever getting into the juvenile justice system, and secondly, if this is unsuccessful, to outline strategies that will reduce or eliminate further offences. From the evidence befo ...
... offenders, and have attempted to develop strategies that will assist these young people, firstly to try to stop them from ever getting into the juvenile justice system, and secondly, if this is unsuccessful, to outline strategies that will reduce or eliminate further offences. From the evidence befo ...
Preventing Crime - What Works, What Doesn`t
... is too low to support generalizable conclusions, but for which there is some empirical basis for predicting that further research could support such conclusions. Programs are coded as "promising" if they found effective in at least one level 3 evaluation and the preponderance of the evidence. What's ...
... is too low to support generalizable conclusions, but for which there is some empirical basis for predicting that further research could support such conclusions. Programs are coded as "promising" if they found effective in at least one level 3 evaluation and the preponderance of the evidence. What's ...
the review of the - CJFS 6945 Research Methods by John Hazy, YSU
... violence is, why? Why did this crime occur? What motivated the offenders to engage in this type of behaviour? Can one theory or explanation account for all of these incidents? Or can violence be caused by multiple factors? Discovering and documenting the root causes of crime and violence has been a ...
... violence is, why? Why did this crime occur? What motivated the offenders to engage in this type of behaviour? Can one theory or explanation account for all of these incidents? Or can violence be caused by multiple factors? Discovering and documenting the root causes of crime and violence has been a ...
General Strain Theory and Bullying Victimization
... to engage in serious delinquent behavior (Hay and Evans, 2006). Anger and self-control were also significant predictors of substance use, but to a lesser degree. Poor attachment to parents had a negative relationship with delinquent outcomes. Based on their findings, Hay and Evans (2006) found supp ...
... to engage in serious delinquent behavior (Hay and Evans, 2006). Anger and self-control were also significant predictors of substance use, but to a lesser degree. Poor attachment to parents had a negative relationship with delinquent outcomes. Based on their findings, Hay and Evans (2006) found supp ...
United States Counter Piracy and Maritime Security Action Plan
... In the early nineties, following the collapse of Somalia’s government and economy, Somalibased pirates began attacking vessels and ransoming crews for private gain. Due to its location near the Gulf of Aden, a strategic maritime corridor, these actions greatly influenced maritime transportation rout ...
... In the early nineties, following the collapse of Somalia’s government and economy, Somalibased pirates began attacking vessels and ransoming crews for private gain. Due to its location near the Gulf of Aden, a strategic maritime corridor, these actions greatly influenced maritime transportation rout ...
Preparing the young offender for return to society
... This study tested the tenets of several perspectives of Sociological theory utilizing the narratives of Guyanese juvenile delinquents. In particular this study tested Social Bonding Theory because it indicates that deviance or delinquency results when individuals fail to develop bonds to society. So ...
... This study tested the tenets of several perspectives of Sociological theory utilizing the narratives of Guyanese juvenile delinquents. In particular this study tested Social Bonding Theory because it indicates that deviance or delinquency results when individuals fail to develop bonds to society. So ...
Predicting Violence - American Bar Association
... trial if they posed a flight risk. The 1984 Federal Bail Reform Act and state legislation during this period altered the landscape, allowing defendants to be held if they were deemed dangerous or posed a threat to public safety.2 Congress and state legislatures charged judges3 with the task of predi ...
... trial if they posed a flight risk. The 1984 Federal Bail Reform Act and state legislation during this period altered the landscape, allowing defendants to be held if they were deemed dangerous or posed a threat to public safety.2 Congress and state legislatures charged judges3 with the task of predi ...
Alcohol, young persons and violence
... Paradise situational intervention study. The situational factors which were related to violence were “drink promotions; groups of young males; crowding; lack of comfort; aggressive bar staff and security personnel; and inept methods for dealing with patrons”. They argue that “youthful alcohol use ha ...
... Paradise situational intervention study. The situational factors which were related to violence were “drink promotions; groups of young males; crowding; lack of comfort; aggressive bar staff and security personnel; and inept methods for dealing with patrons”. They argue that “youthful alcohol use ha ...
saving the united states from lurching to another
... As of 2013, more than two million Americans were in jail, which equates to over 900 per one hundred thousand adults.17 This rate has more than doubled over the past two decades18 and has been steadily rising much of the past forty years.19 In its recent report, the United States National Research Co ...
... As of 2013, more than two million Americans were in jail, which equates to over 900 per one hundred thousand adults.17 This rate has more than doubled over the past two decades18 and has been steadily rising much of the past forty years.19 In its recent report, the United States National Research Co ...
Is Project HOPE Creating,, False Sense of Hope?
... CeaseFire, in Boston, Massachusetts (Rosen, 2010). The goal ofCeaseFire was to reduce gang violence. The first step was to provide a warning that if any member of a gang killed someone, the entire gang would face consequences. Second, any person affiliated a gang or criminal group was offered suppor ...
... CeaseFire, in Boston, Massachusetts (Rosen, 2010). The goal ofCeaseFire was to reduce gang violence. The first step was to provide a warning that if any member of a gang killed someone, the entire gang would face consequences. Second, any person affiliated a gang or criminal group was offered suppor ...
NCSC Sentencing Survey Report - National Center for State Courts
... Survey Research Associates International (PSRAI). For results based on the total sample, the overall margin of sampling error is plus or minus three percentage points. The report begins with an executive summary that highlights the key findings concerning the public’s attitudes toward sentencing and ...
... Survey Research Associates International (PSRAI). For results based on the total sample, the overall margin of sampling error is plus or minus three percentage points. The report begins with an executive summary that highlights the key findings concerning the public’s attitudes toward sentencing and ...
Human Decisions and Machine Predictions.
... the importance of unobservables.10 As a whole, our estimated percentage gains are large in total magnitude because they apply to a large base: at any point time, there are over 750,000 people in local jails across the US.11 Both our primary findings and these policy counter-factuals could be mislead ...
... the importance of unobservables.10 As a whole, our estimated percentage gains are large in total magnitude because they apply to a large base: at any point time, there are over 750,000 people in local jails across the US.11 Both our primary findings and these policy counter-factuals could be mislead ...
The Influence of Gender, Race, Age, Academic Level
... The data for this study came from a survey of college students at a public four-year university in the Midwest with an enrollment of about 20,000. A convenience sampling design was used to select the students in the study. More than 20 college courses offered were selected for administration of the ...
... The data for this study came from a survey of college students at a public four-year university in the Midwest with an enrollment of about 20,000. A convenience sampling design was used to select the students in the study. More than 20 college courses offered were selected for administration of the ...
Regional Programme for the Arab States
... Office has an existing mandate on a number of fronts, including supporting a balanced public healthoriented approach to the drug problem, by working to end discrimination against, and promote interventions for, people who use drugs, and strengthening the access to comprehensive, evidence-based, and ...
... Office has an existing mandate on a number of fronts, including supporting a balanced public healthoriented approach to the drug problem, by working to end discrimination against, and promote interventions for, people who use drugs, and strengthening the access to comprehensive, evidence-based, and ...
THE RISK-NEED-RESPONSIVITY (RNR) MODEL Does Adding the
... In 2003 Ward and Stewart criticized the concept of criminogenic needs for ignoring more basic human needs that underlie optimal personal fulfillment. They argued that attaining the basic goods of “friendship, enjoyable work, loving relationships, creative pursuits, sexual satisfaction, positive self ...
... In 2003 Ward and Stewart criticized the concept of criminogenic needs for ignoring more basic human needs that underlie optimal personal fulfillment. They argued that attaining the basic goods of “friendship, enjoyable work, loving relationships, creative pursuits, sexual satisfaction, positive self ...
The Costs of Crime and Violence - Inter
... “organized crime,” a phenomenon that operates in the region and could be exacerbating violence in some countries. It is clear from this volume that crime in Latin America and the Caribbean is costly and ...
... “organized crime,” a phenomenon that operates in the region and could be exacerbating violence in some countries. It is clear from this volume that crime in Latin America and the Caribbean is costly and ...
Strategies and Best Practices in Crime Prevention in particular in
... The workshop on crime prevention, which took place in Bangkok in April 2005 in the context of the 11 UN Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, represented a major opportunity to assess progress in the application of good crime prevention policy and practice around the world. The workshop ...
... The workshop on crime prevention, which took place in Bangkok in April 2005 in the context of the 11 UN Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, represented a major opportunity to assess progress in the application of good crime prevention policy and practice around the world. The workshop ...
Collective Crime and Collective Punishment
... a colorful and highly individual figure. The last thing one expects of him is the surrender of individual identity to an anonymous submersion in the collective. Yet doctrinally he is a collectivist. In his recent writings, he has been seeking to collectivize just about everything: action, responsibi ...
... a colorful and highly individual figure. The last thing one expects of him is the surrender of individual identity to an anonymous submersion in the collective. Yet doctrinally he is a collectivist. In his recent writings, he has been seeking to collectivize just about everything: action, responsibi ...
Hate Crimes and the Need for Stronger Federal Legislation
... S. Winer, Hate Crimes, Homosexuals, and the Constitution, 29 HARV. C.R.-C.L. L. REV. 387, 413-14 (1994) (citing as one reason why homosexuals are reluctant to report the exposure of their sexual orientation and the resulting stigma and treatment by others that would result); LAWRENCE, supra note 27, ...
... S. Winer, Hate Crimes, Homosexuals, and the Constitution, 29 HARV. C.R.-C.L. L. REV. 387, 413-14 (1994) (citing as one reason why homosexuals are reluctant to report the exposure of their sexual orientation and the resulting stigma and treatment by others that would result); LAWRENCE, supra note 27, ...
Punishment: Consequentialism
... 47-49, 83-89). (More extreme – or just thorough-going – liberals would delete the reference to “offence”.) The problem is particularly acute where the state pursues these ends through punishment rather than other coercive means, such as taxation, let alone in non-coercive ...
... 47-49, 83-89). (More extreme – or just thorough-going – liberals would delete the reference to “offence”.) The problem is particularly acute where the state pursues these ends through punishment rather than other coercive means, such as taxation, let alone in non-coercive ...
Crim Reviewer
... only as long as it can be established that he is acting within the directives of the sending state. o The DFA initially determines immunity, but the final determination is still with the Courts. (although in the WHO case, the Court said it was bound.) o In the VFA, before the American accused is con ...
... only as long as it can be established that he is acting within the directives of the sending state. o The DFA initially determines immunity, but the final determination is still with the Courts. (although in the WHO case, the Court said it was bound.) o In the VFA, before the American accused is con ...
2014_Borden_Barbara_A_Dissertation
... white collar offenders in which she found that “[w]omen’s economic marginality, not liberation or occupational mobility,” explained their offending, and that men’s white collar offending was not the “norm” from which women deviate (p. 70). Subjecting a first-time female offender to incarceration has ...
... white collar offenders in which she found that “[w]omen’s economic marginality, not liberation or occupational mobility,” explained their offending, and that men’s white collar offending was not the “norm” from which women deviate (p. 70). Subjecting a first-time female offender to incarceration has ...
- Berkeley Law Scholarship Repository
... are some parallels in their nature and function that link them. Together, I suggest that they reveal valuable insights about sources of innovation in the criminal justice systems in England and the United States, two "weak states" that stand in sharp contrast to developments in their continental cou ...
... are some parallels in their nature and function that link them. Together, I suggest that they reveal valuable insights about sources of innovation in the criminal justice systems in England and the United States, two "weak states" that stand in sharp contrast to developments in their continental cou ...
Explaining Recent Trends in US Homicide Rates
... the inclination to account for the local declines in terms of this or that special local initiative apparently was all but irresistible.7 Not surprisingly, perhaps, very different types of causal rhetoric dominate public discussion during periods of rising and falling crime rates. During periods of ...
... the inclination to account for the local declines in terms of this or that special local initiative apparently was all but irresistible.7 Not surprisingly, perhaps, very different types of causal rhetoric dominate public discussion during periods of rising and falling crime rates. During periods of ...