The role of "problematic" and "improved" indicators of risky lifestyles in the self-control/lifestyle framework of victimization among Filipino adolescents - Barrera DJ.
Pratt and Turanovic (European Journal of Criminology, 13(1):129-146, 2016) argue that previous studies operationalizing risky lifestyles as mere "going out" (problematic indicators of risky lifestyles) were misspecified and that "improved" indicators of ri... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 8, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Hegemonic masculinity, violence, and gender equality: using latent class analysis to investigate the origins and correlates of differences between men - Jewkes R, Morrell R.
Messerschmidt and colleagues have pioneered work in criminology using masculinities theory, yet many researchers in the field have not engaged with the possibility that the different patterning of correlated violent, sexually risky, and antisocial behavior... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 1, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Research Methods, Surveillance and Codes, Models Source Type: news

Self-control and deviance: a test of the general theory of crime in Argentina - Bobbio A, Arbach K, Vazsonyi AT.
Gottfredson and Hirschi's General Theory of Crime (GTC) has been one of the most cited and tested theories in criminology. It posits to be in effect transcultural in its application and relevant for any norm-violating behaviors. As most empirical work has ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 25, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

The influence of forensic advisors on the use of forensic science in the Belgian criminal justice system - Bitzer S.
Forensic Advisors, at the Belgian National Institute for Criminalistics and Criminology, occupy a centralising role in regards to analytical information and forensic questions in the judicial cases. Magistrates can request their advice but remain formally ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 6, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Jurisprudence, Laws, Legislation, Policies, Rules Source Type: news

Working with misspecified regression models - Berk R, Brown L, Buja A, George E, Zhao L.
OBJECTIVES Conventional statistical modeling in criminology assumes proper model specification. Very strong and unrebutted criticisms have existed for decades. Some respond that although the criticisms are correct, there is for observational data no altern... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 4, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Research Methods, Surveillance and Codes, Models Source Type: news

The state of peer review in criminology: literary theory, perceptions, and the catch-22 metaphor of peer review - Higgins EM.
Considerable theoretical and empirical attention has been devoted to the practice of peer review across various disciplines in the previous couple decades. Recently, Raymond Paternoster and Robert Brame indicated that it is necessary for criminology to fol... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 4, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Research Methods, Surveillance and Codes, Models Source Type: news

The unified crime theory and the social correlates of crime and violence: problems and solutions - Kavish N, Boutwell B.
PURPOSE Criminology has produced more than a century of informative research on the social correlates of criminal behavior. Recently, a growing body of theoretical and empirical work has begun to apply evolutionary principles, particularly from life... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 4, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Jurisprudence, Laws, Legislation, Policies, Rules Source Type: news

Measuring journal prestige in criminal justice and criminology - Dejong C, St. George S.
Recent years have seen an increased reliance on the Thomson Reuters Journal Impact Factor (JIF) as a method of evaluating the prestige of academic journals. While the JIF has existed for many years, the increased use of technology to track publications and... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 4, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Research Methods, Surveillance and Codes, Models Source Type: news

Just mercy through cultural and convict criminology - King A.
The purpose of this paper is to explore Bryan Stevenson's (2014, 2015) call to action from within two emergent schools of thought in criminology, "cultural criminology," and "convict criminology", which share a special concern with the contributions that c... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 4, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Jurisprudence, Laws, Legislation, Policies, Rules Source Type: news

Parental influences on youth delinquency - Cicerali LK, Cicerali EE.
PURPOSE The purpose of this paper is to inform the reader about the currently employed theories, research, and interventions in developmental criminology, with a particular emphasis on parental influences. Design/methodology/approach ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 4, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Do criminology classes make a difference? Changes in perceptions of punishment over time - Kuehn S, Ridener RJ, Scott PW.
Much research has centered on exploring the effect that education has on students' attitudes, and, specifically, their thoughts regarding punitiveness toward offenders. Due to the use of cross-sectional data, the ability to adequately assess the effect tha... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 1, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Jurisprudence, Laws, Legislation, Policies, Rules Source Type: news

UMass Lowell professor receives national award
(University of Massachusetts Lowell) UMass Lowell's Jill Portnoy recently received a national award recognizing her groundbreaking research in the field of criminology. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - December 19, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

On the need for a biopsychosocial victimology: a foundational model for focusing violence prevention on women and children - Posick C, Lasko E, Tremblay RE.
Criminology has traditionally been primarily focused on adolescent male criminality given the perception that most violent crime is perpetrated by boys in their early teens. However, this view neglects the considerable amount of evidence that violent behav... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - December 3, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Eight USF faculty members named new AAAS Fellows
(University of South Florida (USF Innovation)) Eight University of South Florida professors whose research has set a global standard in a range of disciplines from environmental sciences to health and aging studies, and from chemistry to criminology, have been named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - November 27, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Male sexual victimization: examining variation in the probability of weapon use and victim injury - Dierenfeldt R, Balemba S.
The sexual victimization of adult males remains an understudied subject within criminology. Prior research has generally been restricted to descriptive analysis of small clinical samples and inmate populations. Using general strain theory (GST), this study... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - November 16, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Violence and Weapons Issues Source Type: news