“Diversion for Adults: Northamptonshire’s Initiative”
June 4, 2015
Source: (-0001) Probation Journal, 37; 18 Abstract...
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“Diversion Decision-Making Process From the Juvenile Court Practitioners’ Perspective: Results of a Survey”
by Potter, Roberto Hugh
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice. 18(1):20-36. This research examined the reported effect of legal and nonlegal factors on those who actually make decisions about juvenile diversion. Previous researchers have analyzed the outcomes of recorded decisions made in the...
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“Determinants of Reconciliation and Compromise Among Israelis and Palestinians”
by SHAMIR, JACOB
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Journal of Peace Research. 39(2):185-202. This joint Palestinian–Israeli study stresses the importance of public opinion in reconciliation processes. It was conducted in the wake of the Arafat–Barak Camp David summit and intended to set up a baseline for sentiments...
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“A desistance paradigm for offender management”
by McNEILL, Fergus
June 4, 2015
Source: (2006) Criminology & Criminal Justice. 6(1):39-62. In an influential article published in the British Journal of Social Work in 1979, Anthony Bottoms and Bill McWilliams proposed the adoption of a ‘non-treatment paradigm’ for probation practice. Their argument rested...
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Current issues and developments in race hate crime.
by Dixon, Liz
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) Probation Journal. (54(2): 109-124. This article considers the ‘hate agenda’ as a model for interventions targeted at race hate crime. The authors consider current initiatives in different agencies and make some comparisons between the American and British...
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Restorative Justice with an Explicit Rehabilitative Ethos: Is This the Resolve to Change Criminality?
by Bezuidenhout, C.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) Acta Criminologica. 20(2):43-60. In this paper, all the different arguments regarding restorative justice are considered and examined in order to position it in relation to mainstream criminal justice and rehabilitation. To suggest that restorative justice will be more effective...
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“Cultural criminology and kryptonite: Apocalyptic and retributive constructions of crime and justice in comic books”
by Phillips, Nickie D.
June 4, 2015
Source: (-0001) Crime, Media, Culture, 2; 304 The current study utilizes a cultural criminological approach to examine paradigms of justice portrayed in American comic books. Based on a review of the literature, we hypothesize that the dominant crimes depicted in comic books are violent street...
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Criminology in the Netherlands.
by Swaaningen, René van
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) European Journal of Criminology. 3(4):463-501. This article relates the development of criminology to developments in crime and justice and to cultural and political changes in the Netherlands. Despite a long tradition, criminology’s academic position has never been...
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N = 1: Criminology and the person.
by Maruna, Shadd
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) Theoretical Criminology. 11(4):1362-4806. Although a few well-known case studies have appeared in criminology over the past few decades (e.g. King and Chambliss, 1972; Steffensmeier, 1986), The Jack-Roller remains by far the best known. Considering the fact that Shaw’s...
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“Criminologists making news? Providing factual information on crime and criminal justice through a weekly newspaper column”
by Feilzer, Martina Yvonne
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) Crime, Media, Culture. 3(3):285-304. This article summarizes the findings from a two-year research project, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, which explored the impact of a criminologist presenting factual information on crime and criminal justice through a weekly column in a...
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Crimes Mala in Se: An Equity-Based Definition.
by Davis, Mark S.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2006) Criminal Justice Policy Review. 17(3):270-289. Legal scholars have used the terms mala prohibita and mala in se to draw the distinction between legally proscribed and morally proscribed offenses. The former are those offenses that are wrong simply because there exist formal,...
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“Crime and Justice in the Republic of Ireland”
by O’Donnell, Ian
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) European Journal of Criminology. 2(1): 99-131. Criminology remains underdeveloped in the Republic of Ireland and, although some excellent pieces of scholarship have appeared down the years, an adequate body of knowledge is still some way distant. Despite the limitations of the...
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Crime and Criminal Policy in Italy: Tradition and Modernity in a Troubled Country
by Maffei, Stefano
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) European Journal of Criminology. 4(4):461-482. This paper investigates the development of criminology research in Italy and places it in the context of broader considerations of the country’s policies on crime and criminal justice. An overview of Italian research on crime...
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“Crime and Criminal Policy in Iceland: Criminology on the Margins of”
by Ólafsdóttir, Hildigunnur
June 4, 2015
Source: (2006) European Journal of Criminology. 3(2): 221–253. Icelandic criminologists have classified Iceland as a country in which offences are rare. Despite an increase in crime during the 1990s, the incarceration figures are among the lowest in Europe. An overview of Icelandic...
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“Crime and Control in Late Modernity”
by Matthews, Roger
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Theoretical Criminology. 6(2): 217–226. Abstract...
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