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Multiple Problem Youth
Delinquency, Substance Use, and Mental Health Problems
Av Delbert S. Elliott, David Huizinga m. fl.
Häftad, 1989
1122 kr
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Multiple Problem Youth addresses the complex connections among drug abuse, delinquency, and mental health problems as they apply to adolescents and young adults. Interrelationships in this area exist in a vast variety of ways, further complicated by extraneous factors such as demographics, sex, and …
Crime and Criminal Policy in Japan
Analysis and Evaluation of the Showa Era, 1926–1988
Av Minoru Shikita, Shinichi Tsuchiya
Inbunden, 1991
1500 kr
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The Showa Era in Japan commenced in December 1926, when Emperor Showa ascended the Throne, and came to an end in January 1989, when His Majesty passed away, ushering in the new Heisei Era. The Showa Era was marked by drastic changes in the economy, society, and political and legal sys tems, which …
Crime and Criminal Policy in Japan
Analysis and Evaluation of the Showa Era, 1926–1988
Av Minoru Shikita, Shinichi Tsuchiya
Häftad, 2011
1505 kr
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The Showa Era in Japan commenced in December 1926, when Emperor Showa ascended the Throne, and came to an end in January 1989, when His Majesty passed away, ushering in the new Heisei Era. The Showa Era was marked by drastic changes in the economy, society, and political and legal sys tems, which …
Understanding Crime Incidence Statistics
Why the UCR Diverges From the NCS
Av Albert D. Biderman, James P. Lynch
Häftad, 2011
1006 kr
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The prominence achieved by the novel measure of "households touched by crime" when it was introduced into the National Crime Survey (NCS) in 1981 was responsible for renewed attention to comparisons between the crime rates reported by the NCS and the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR). The new NCS measure …
Developments in Crime and Crime Control Research
German Studies on Victims, Offenders, and the Public
Av Klaus Sessar, Hans-Jürgen Kerner
Häftad, 2013
550 kr
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"One of the central features of modern German criminology in revealing the 'true nature of crime' follows the tradition of enlightment" instead of accommodating the approach of the criminal justice system. This contention is made by the editors of Developments in Crime and Crime Control Research, …
Selective Incapacitation and the Serious Offender
A Longitudinal Study of Criminal Career Patterns
Häftad, 2011
535 kr
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And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee; for it is profitable for thee that one ofthy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. Matthew 5. 30 The great War on Pover,ty of the 1960s focused on the root causes of crime, unemployment, …
Male Criminal Activity from Childhood Through Youth
Multilevel and Developmental Perspectives
Av Marc Le Blanc, Marcel Frechette
Häftad, 2011
1006 kr
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Male Criminal Activity From Childhood Through Youth reports the results of a large longitudinal study from 1972 to 1985 on a sample of delinquents and a comparison sample of the population in Montreal. A clarification emerges from this extensive study: how to describe criminal activity in a …
Predicting Recidivism Using Survival Models
Av Peter Schmidt, Ann D. Witte
Häftad, 2012
1126 kr
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Our interest in the statistical modeling of data on the timing of recidivism began in the mid 1970s when we were both junior members of the eco nomics department at the University of North Carolina. At that time, methods of analyzing qualitative and limited variables were being developed rapidly …
Prisons Crowding: A Psychological Perspective
Av Paul Paulus
Häftad, 2013
506 kr
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This volume is a summary of a 1S-year effort to determine the effects of prison crowding and their relationship to the broader realm of crowding phenomena and theories. Although the writing of this volume was for the most part a solitary effort, the data and ideas it is based on were mostly the …
Off School, In Court
An Experimental and Psychiatric Investigation of Severe School Attendance Problems
Av Ian Berg, Imogen Brown m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
506 kr
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This book is concerned with an investigation of severe school attendance problems. The purpose of this study is to integrate and synthesize related research carried out over the last ten years on this important social problem. The research describes the first use of randomly controlled trials by …
Social Contexts of Criminal Sentencing
Av Martha A. Myers, Susette M. Talarico
Häftad, 2011
506 kr
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Historically, the announcement and invocation of criminal penalties were public spectacles. Today, fear of crime and disaffection with the criminal justice system guarantee that this public fascination with punishment continues. In the past decade, virtually every legislature in the country has …
Understanding and Controlling Crime
Toward a New Research Strategy
Av David P. Farrington, Lloyd E. Ohlin m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
566 kr
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In 1982 the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation created a small committee-the Justice Program Study Group (whose membership is listed at the end ofthis preface)-and posed to it what can hardly be regarded as an easy ques tion: "What ideas, what concepts, what basic intellectual …
Coping, Behavior, and Adaptation in Prison Inmates
Av Edward Zamble, Frank J. Porporino
Häftad, 2013
566 kr
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This book is the report of a collaborative effort. Frank Porporino and I arrived at the starting point for our work together by very different routes. Originally trained as an experimental psychologist, I had become in creasingly restive within the confines of the laboratory, and spent a sab …
Deterrence and Juvenile Crime
Results from a National Policy Experiment
Häftad, 2011
535 kr
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"Americans have an abiding faith in punishment", asserts Anne Schneider in her introduction of Deterrence and Juvenile Crime. Dr. Schneider explores this "abiding faith" in her volume, overviewing past assumptions that punishment or merely the threat of punishment necessarily deters criminal …
Human Development and Criminal Behavior
New Ways of Advancing Knowledge
Av Michael Tonry, Lloyd E. Ohlin m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
535 kr
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Human Development and Criminal Behavior proposes an exten- sive agenda for crime research. The book is part of a pio- neering effort to understand the causes of crime, particu- larly its developmental course. It defines and sets the con- ditions necessary to conduct an accelerated longitudinal …
Urban Crime, Criminals, and Victims
The Swedish Experience in an Anglo-American Comparative Perspective
Häftad, 2013
535 kr
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Crime is largely an urban phenomenon, but the specifically urban and area dimen sions of the social processes that are connected with crime have been seriously understated in much recent criminological work ... Such a claim could not have been made forty years ago. (Baldwin & Bottoms, 1976, p. 1). …
Justice Under Pressure
A Comparison of Recidivism Patterns Among Four Successive Parolee Cohorts
Av Sheldon Ekland-Olson, William R. Kelly
Häftad, 2012
506 kr
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Justice Under Pressure analyzes the effects of prison crowding on the justice system. The authors focus on dramatic changes in the administration of criminal justice in Texas during the 1980s and the influence of those changes on the three-year survival rates among parolees released between 1984 …
Policing and Punishing the Drinking Driver
A Study of General and Specific Deterrence
Av Ross Homel
Häftad, 2013
504 kr
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Policing and Punishing the Drinking Driver is at one level about the impact of specific drinking-driving countermeasures (punishments imposed by courts on convicted offenders and random breath testing) in a particular place (New South Wales, Australia) in two particular years (1972 and 1983). At …
Judicial Decision Making, Sentencing Policy, and Numerical Guidance
Häftad, 2012
504 kr
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This book describes an original, empirical study of judicial decision making. The process of determining sentences is a difficult one for judges and often unnecessarily intuitive, subjective, and complex. The present study introduces a conceptual outline and empirical technique for increasing the …
Criminal Behavior and the Justice System
Psychological Perspectives
Av Hermann Wegener, Friedrich Lösel m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
504 kr
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Readers of this book can gain novel insight into the various theoretical perspectives of psychology and law. It is demonstrated that psychology is not simply an applied discipline in the legal area, but that it contains its own concepts and paradigms for basic research. Legal psychology proves to …
