Can yoga overcome criminality? The impact of yoga on recidivism in Israeli prisons - Kovalsky S, Hasisi B, Haviv N, Elisha E.
In recent years, yoga practices have been integrated into formal prison rehabilitation programs of the Israel Prison Service (IPS), as part of the informal education system, giving rise to innovative criminological theories such as positive criminology tha... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - May 4, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Jurisprudence, Laws, Legislation, Policies, Rules Source Type: news
Can yoga overcome criminality? The impact of yoga on recidivism in Israeli prisons - Kovalsky S, Hasisi B, Haviv N, Elisha E.
In recent years, yoga practices have been integrated into informal education programs of the Israel Prison Service (IPS), given rise to innovative criminological theories such as positive criminology that emphasize the development of offenders' strengths b... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 21, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Jurisprudence, Laws, Legislation, Policies, Rules Source Type: news
Koper & Lum studying policing innovations to reduce serious crashes on rural roads
(George Mason University) Christopher Koper, Associate Professor, Criminology, Law and Society, and Cynthia Lum,Professor and Director, Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy (CEBCP), Criminology, Law and Society, are conducting an evaluation of the implementation and effects of an evidence-based, data-driven, place-based, and problem-solving patrol strategy to significantly reduce serious injury and fatal vehicle crashes on Iowa roadways. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - April 17, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Rural criminology - a challenge for the future - Me ško G.
Donnermeyer (2016) states that nearly 50% of the world' s population lives in rural areas, but historically, only a handful of criminological studies have focused on crime in rural settings. Wells and Weisheit (2012) found that the rurality of the study si... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 2, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Research Methods, Surveillance and Codes, Models Source Type: news
Newsmaking criminology in Australia and New Zealand: results from a mixed methods study of criminologists' media engagement - Iliadis M, Richards I, Wood MA.
'Newsmaking criminology', as described by Barak, is the process by which criminologists contribute to the generation of 'newsworthy' media content about crime and justice, often through their engagement with broadcast and other news media. While newsmaking... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 21, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Jurisprudence, Laws, Legislation, Policies, Rules Source Type: news
Gill studying crime reduction best practices for rural communities
(George Mason University) Charlotte Gill, Associate Professor/Deputy Director, Criminology, Law and Society, received $100,803 from the US Department of Justice Community Oriented Policing Services for the project: 'Translating Crime Reduction Best and Emerging Practices for Small and Rural Agencies.' (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - March 20, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Translational criminology and its importance in policing: a review - Nichols J, Wire S, Wu X, Sloan M, Scherer A.
Translational criminology is a decision-making perspective that emphasizes the dynamic coproduction of evidence by researchers and practitioners, focusing on obstacles to and facilitators of evidence generation and utilization. It incorporates several othe... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 14, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Research Methods, Surveillance and Codes, Models Source Type: news
A four-phase process for translating research into police practice - Santos RG, Santos RB.
This article presents a framework that extends the discussion of translational criminology and the dynamic process of translating research to practice. The goal is to provide an explicit dissection of the translation process into four phases to help outlin... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 13, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Occupational Issues Source Type: news
Weisburd studying police stops, crime prevention, and community reaction
(George Mason University) David Weisburd, Distinguished Professor/Executive Director, Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy, Criminology, Law and Society, and co-Principal Investigator Robert Davis, Chief Social Scientist with the National Police Foundation, are working on a project titled: 'Police Stops, Crime Prevention, and Community Reaction: A Randomized Field Experiment at Violent Crime Hot Spots.' (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - February 14, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Gill receives funding for rainier beach: A beautiful safe place for youth evaluation
(George Mason University) Charlotte Gill, Associate Professor/Deputy Director, Criminology, Law and Society, is serving as Principal Investigator on an ongoing evaluation of " Rainier Beach: A Beautiful Safe Place for Youth (ABSPY), " a community-led, place-based youth crime prevention project in crime hot spots in the Rainier Beach neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - February 7, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Beyond Goodfellas and The Godfather: the Cosa Nostra families' rise and fall
(University of Chicago Press Journals) Since 1979 the Crime and Justice series has presented a review of the latest international research, providing expertise to enhance the work of sociologists, psychologists, criminal lawyers, justice scholars, and political scientists. The series explores a full range of issues concerning crime, its causes, and its cures. In both the review and the thematic volumes, Crime and Justice offers an interdisciplinary approach to address core issues in criminology. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - February 6, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
What they don't know says a lot: residents' knowledge of neighborhood crime in contemporary China - Shen Y, Messner SF, Liu J, Sampson RJ.
OBJECTIVES: Our study questions the common assumption of random DK responses in criminology survey data and emphasizes the importance of understanding and handling DK for gaining substantive criminological knowledge. It examines the individual-level and ne... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 5, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Research Methods, Surveillance and Codes, Models Source Type: news
Lum & Koper studying investigation, clearance rates, victim restoration in robbery cases
(George Mason University) Cynthia Lum, Professor, Criminology, Law and Society, and Director, Evidence-Based Crime Policy, and Christopher Koper, Associate Professor, Criminology, Law and Society, are conducting a multi-site randomized experiment with the Rochester (NY) and Seattle (WA) police departments to develop and test a structured and cost-effective investigation protocol for robbery -- one of the most common, yet least-solved violent crimes. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - January 24, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Going spatial: applying egohoods to fear of crime research - Glas I, Engbersen G, Snel E.
A central theme in criminology is how fear of crime is influenced by the residential context. Most researchers rely on administrative neighbourhoods to define context. These administrative units do not necessarily align with how inhabitants experience thei... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 16, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Research Methods, Surveillance and Codes, Models Source Type: news
Understanding the differential effects of land uses on crime: an examination across Philadelphia neighbourhoods - Wo JC.
Although criminology presumes that the physical structural qualities of neighbourhoods have important consequences for crime, there is a dearth of research to test the effects of different land uses on crime rates. Using data on a sample of Philadelphia ce... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 16, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Research Methods, Surveillance and Codes, Models Source Type: news
