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
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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
Bicycle parking security and built environments - Chen P, Liu Q, Sun F.
The lack of secure bicycle parking is a serious but often neglected issue that discourages bicycling. Classical environment criminology theories try to explain the pattern of bicycle theft but provide limited insights into the relationship between crime an... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - October 8, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Jurisprudence, Laws, Legislation, Policies, Rules Source Type: news
UNISON and National Police Chiefs ’ Council to tackle worrying levels of sexual harassment
Police chiefs have pledged to act over high levels of sexual harassment among police staff working for forces in England and Wales, as set out in a report published today (Thursday) by UNISON, the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and the University of Surrey.
The National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) says the report highlights some ‘outdated and unacceptable behaviour’ that must be ‘rooted out’. Details include some police staff (4%) being pressurised into having sex with colleagues, or being told that sexual favours could result in preferential treatment (8%).
The findings are based on a s...
Source: UNISON Health care news - August 16, 2018 Category: UK Health Authors: Charlotte Jeffs Tags: Press release ben priestley Christina McAnea harassment London School of economics NAtional police Chiefs' council police staff Source Type: news
How people view crime depends on the politics of when they were growing up
(Oxford University Press USA) A new study in the British Journal of Criminology indicates that the different political periods in which people 'came of age' has an important influence on their perception of crime, even decades later. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - August 7, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
An overview of existing criminological research on school violence and bullying behaviour : a review through secondary document analysis - Hesselink A.
School violence is a socio-cultural occurrence and a concern for South Africa (as it is in many other countries) that justifies global attention. In South Africa, much has been written in the field of criminology on school violence and bullying behaviour. ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - July 30, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Intersectionality of race, ethnicity, gender, and age on criminal punishment - Steffensmeier D, Painter-Davis N, Ulmer J.
Race, ethnicity, gender, and age are core foci within sociology and law/criminology. Also prominent is how these statuses intersect to affect behavioral outcomes, but statistical studies of intersectionality are rare. In the area of criminal sentencing, an... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - July 19, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Jurisprudence, Laws, Legislation, Policies, Rules Source Type: news
