Global guns, violence and criminology - Squires P.
These four books published recently reflect, in their different ways, how criminology is coming to grapple with questions of firearms and violence. These are timely topics; at home, in Europe and across the wider world, gun violence has seldom been out of ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 22, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Jurisprudence, Laws, Legislation, Policies, Rules Source Type: news
'They might not kill you today but they're going to get you in the end': the correctional subculture and the schematization of danger - Higgins EM, Swartz K, Navarro JC, Hughes K.
Criminology has long investigated criminal justice cultures and their preoccupation with dangerousness. Over a half century ago, correctional scholars called for a richer understanding of how a 'social reality' of danger might shape the mental state of sta... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 22, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Jurisprudence, Laws, Legislation, Policies, Rules Source Type: news
'Filming is our only weapon against the police': ethnic minorities and police encounters in the new visibility era - S øgaard TF, Kolind T, Haller MB, Kammersgaard T, Hunt G.
Based on Goldsmith's (2010, 'Policing's New Visibility', British Journal of Criminology, 50: 914-34) assertion that police work has acquired a 'new visibility' with the ubiquity of cell phone cameras, recent studies have explored how 'video activists' ofte... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 22, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Jurisprudence, Laws, Legislation, Policies, Rules Source Type: news
Delinquent peers and delinquency: findings from a longitudinal study of youth - Kim J, Lee Y.
Although the relationship between delinquency and deviant peers has long been an important topic in criminology, there remain unresolved issues including theoretical incongruences and a lack of rigorous empirical studies examining the interplay between the... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 22, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Forecasting future crime rates - Rosenfeld R, Berg M.
Despite its importance for testing criminological theories and informing crime control policy, forecasting crime rates has all but disappeared from criminology. We argue for a resurgence of crime forecasting in the study of crime trends. As an example of t... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 16, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Jurisprudence, Laws, Legislation, Policies, Rules Source Type: news
Comparing the determinants of worldwide homicide and terrorism - LaFree G, Jiang B, Yanez Y.
Over the past two decades, the study of terrorism has been increasingly integrated into mainstream criminology. Like other types of criminal behavior, terrorism can be divided into etiology (an emphasis on "breaking laws") and criminal justice (an emphasis... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 16, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Jurisprudence, Laws, Legislation, Policies, Rules Source Type: news
The relationship between antisocial personality disorder and criminology: acquired factors and genetic influences - Zhang SZ.
This study looks at the interaction of internal and external factors in the process of antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) and criminal conduct. It reveals the major contributions of both genetic and acquired factors using data from longitudinal twin st... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 8, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news
What factors shape a serial murderer? - Yang M.
This article explores the multifaceted factors that contribute to the emergence of serial killers, including childhood trauma, mental illnesse... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 8, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Jurisprudence, Laws, Legislation, Policies, Rules Source Type: news
Homicide or happiness: did folate fortification and public health campaigns influence homicide rates and the Great American Crime Decline? - Schoenthaler SJ, Prescott SL, Logan AC.
The last several years have witnessed a remarkable growth in research directed at nutrition and behavior, with increased interest in the field of nutritional criminology. It is becoming clear that dietary patterns and specific nutrients play an important r... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 8, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Egress, Escape, Evacuation, Crowds Source Type: news
Criminology of atrocity crimes: analysing the aetiology of the Rohingya persecution in Myanmar - Hossain MP.
The current paper examines the aetiology of persecution committed against the Rohingya in Myanmar from a criminological perspective. Criminological theories focusing on one level of analysis may not fully explain the incidents concerning the systematic imp... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 1, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Jurisprudence, Laws, Legislation, Policies, Rules Source Type: news
Criminology and massive violation of human rights: the case of terrorism and genocide - Slimani A.
The criminological dimension of crime generally does not arouse great enthusiasm from researchers in Arab countries, unlike Anglo-Saxon- or French-speaking countries. Admittedly, Western criminology is more advanced, but it is more interested in common cri... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 1, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Disaster Preparedness Source Type: news
Radiologists, RTs, and the art of forensic imaging
Ever since Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen's discovery of x-rays in 1895, the field of medical imaging has continued to expand across a multiplicity of applications, and one of the most fascinating is its use as a forensic tool to determine the causes of trauma, both in living and deceased individuals.
Forensic radiologists and radiologic technologists apply their expertise to imaging exams -- typically x-ray and CT -- intended to illuminate signs of trauma. So how do these experts approach forensic radiology? AuntMinnie.com spoke to two experts about the state of the specialty.
Training is key
What is forensic radiology? Put s...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 25, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Kate Madden Yee Tags: Clinical News Source Type: news
Is it time for the use of pair-matching in all randomized controlled trials of crime and violence prevention? A review of the research - Paterson H, Welsh BC.
Pair-matching in randomized controlled trials (RCTs) has received increased attention in criminology, the social sciences more generally, and medicine and public health, with a growing body of research demonstrating the design's benefits over "simple" RCTs... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 21, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Jurisprudence, Laws, Legislation, Policies, Rules Source Type: news
"Pretty women" and "lucky blokes": unpacking Australian social media responses to female-perpetrated sexual assault against men - Murphy A, Groves A.
Female-perpetrated sexual violence research in Australia and elsewhere has been limited, part of a less common and arguably contentious field of criminology. Because of gendered social and cultural stereotypes, female sexual offending is often perceived as... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 21, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Jurisprudence, Laws, Legislation, Policies, Rules Source Type: news
Murder of Georgia student fuels heated debate over immigration policies
The murder of a college student in Georgia and the immigration status of her alleged killer have thrown new fuel into the heated debate over immigration and the government's policies. Amna Nawaz discussed more with Charis Kubrin, a professor of criminology, law and society at the University of…#georgia #amnanawaz #chariskubrin #immigrationandcrime (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - February 27, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
