Exploring Perceptions of Portuguese Police about Human Trafficking Victims and Perpetrators
This study has important implications for practitioners and highlights the need to invest in empirical research to produce efficient policies and interventions. (Source: Crime, Law and Social Change)
Source: Crime, Law and Social Change - April 1, 2022 Category: Criminology Source Type: research
Enacting social engineering: the emotional experience of information security deception
This study situates social engineering in past criminological work on fraud and analyzes qualitative interviews with social engineers to elucidate the emotional experiences of perpetrating such frauds. The results of this analysis indicate that social engineering interactions are characterized by an emotional experience of situational tension and the subsequent resolution of that tension. The analysis then turns to factors that modulate the quality and intensity of the emotional experience of social engineering perpetration. These factors include the social distance between the social engineer and the mark, the social engi...
Source: Crime, Law and Social Change - April 1, 2022 Category: Criminology Source Type: research
Meaningful crime prevention or just an ‘Act’:Discourse Analysis of the criminalisation of contract cheating services in Australia
AbstractContract cheating remains a significant problem for universities and higher education (HE) generally, both within Australia and internationally. In 2020, the Australian Federal Government passed legislation establishing a new criminal offence, criminalising the provision or advertisement of academic cheating services by individuals and businesses. This legislation represents the Australian Government ’s formal commitment to a criminal justice response to address the problem of contract cheating behaviour, which seeks to prevent and minimise the use and/or promotion of such cheating services within the higher educ...
Source: Crime, Law and Social Change - April 1, 2022 Category: Criminology Source Type: research
Performing unbelonging in court. Observations from a transnational corporate bribery trial —a dramaturgical approach
This article presents a study of the theatrical performance in court in a high-profile transnational corporate bribery case. Data gathered from observations in court were supplemented with interviews with the defense teams and the presiding judge. The paper ’s objective is to demonstrate how the defendants performed unbelonging in court via the interactions between the different ‘teams’ in the courtroom; the defense, the prosecutors, the judges, and the company Telia. The analysis draws on Goffman’s theater analogy and his understandings of per formance and self-presentation. The authors introduce the concept of ...
Source: Crime, Law and Social Change - April 1, 2022 Category: Criminology Source Type: research
Should gains from criminal knowledge be forfeited?
This article argues that revenue accruing from knowledge gained from association with crime should be treated as indirect proceeds of crime and, as such, should be forfeited. (Source: Crime, Law and Social Change)
Source: Crime, Law and Social Change - April 1, 2022 Category: Criminology Source Type: research
Does internet access increase the perception of corruption?
This article used the 2018 China Family Panel Studies (CFPS2018) data to systematically examine the impact of Internet access on corruption perceptions and its mechanisms. After controlling for a series of variables such as demographic characteristics and cultural and psychological factors, this study found that there is a significant correlation between Internet access and individuals ’ perception of corruption, which could be attributed to the characteristics of the Internet and the individuals’ “negativity bias effect”. In addition, a mechanism analysis found that both political trust and relative deprivation pl...
Source: Crime, Law and Social Change - April 1, 2022 Category: Criminology Source Type: research
Meaningful crime prevention or just an ‘Act’:Discourse Analysis of the criminalisation of contract cheating services in Australia
AbstractContract cheating remains a significant problem for universities and higher education (HE) generally, both within Australia and internationally. In 2020, the Australian Federal Government passed legislation establishing a new criminal offence, criminalising the provision or advertisement of academic cheating services by individuals and businesses. This legislation represents the Australian Government ’s formal commitment to a criminal justice response to address the problem of contract cheating behaviour, which seeks to prevent and minimise the use and/or promotion of such cheating services within the higher educ...
Source: Crime, Law and Social Change - April 1, 2022 Category: Criminology Source Type: research
Designed to break: planned obsolescence as corporate environmental crime
AbstractPlanned obsolescence is the practice of deliberately designing products to limit their life span to encourage replacement. It is a common business strategy for consumer goods, with far-reaching ecological and social consequences. Here, we examine the definition, causes and consequences of planned obsolescence by using insights from corporate crime literature, integrated with environmental philosophy, management sciences, technology studies and law. Focusing on cases of planned obsolescence in consumer electronics, we show that the concept and procedure carries conceptual ambiguity and moral ambivalence, bearing dif...
Source: Crime, Law and Social Change - March 31, 2022 Category: Criminology Source Type: research
Occupational crimes in casinos: employee theft in Macau, China
AbstractIt is virtually impossible to accurately measure employee theft across the casino industry using official statistics. In this paper, we use the self-report method for measuring crime to (a) estimate the prevalence, incidence, seriousness, and versatility of occupational offending in casinos in Macau, China —the largest casino gambling location in the world; and (b) identify characteristics which correlate with that offending. One in seven employees in our sample (14%; 38 out of 281) reported engaging in at least one of six offenses (theft in the workplace, falsification of documents, computer fraud, bribe offerin...
Source: Crime, Law and Social Change - March 29, 2022 Category: Criminology Source Type: research
Measuring judiciarization of people with mental illnesses
AbstractThe judiciarization of the psychiatric subject is a two-sided process. It could anti-discriminate people with mental illnesses but, at the same time, it could potentially provoke pathologization of mental illnesses. Current methodologies proposed to measure this important and complicated process for people with mental illnesses do not allow analysis on multiple levels (the macro, meso, and micro). In this article, to fill this gap we propose a methodological strategy that helps to investigate judiciarization of people with mental illnesses on multiple levels at once. This approach is based on critical discourse ana...
Source: Crime, Law and Social Change - March 2, 2022 Category: Criminology Source Type: research
Correction to: Intergenerational continuity of crime among children of organized crime offenders in the Netherlands
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Source: Crime, Law and Social Change - March 1, 2022 Category: Criminology Source Type: research
Competencies for rehabilitation professionals working with ideology-based terrorism offenders
This study seeks to systematically identify competencies needed for staffs working with terrorism offenders in Indonesia. Semi-structured interviews with Indonesian counterterrorism experts, practitioners, and professionals were conducted and data were analysed using qualitative and quantitative methods. Findings suggest four general/core and forty specific competencies are helpful for rehabilitation therapists and other staff working with ideology-based terrorist offenders. The findings may be used by service providers responsible for the design and implementation of deradicalization and terrorism offender rehabilitation....
Source: Crime, Law and Social Change - February 18, 2022 Category: Criminology Source Type: research
Violence against Women and Femicide: an analysis on the murders of foreign women in Italy
AbstractThis paper presents the results of a research on the representations of femicide in the judicial field, in Italy. The use of the term femicide is analysed through the lens of the normative process, examining its social meanings and questioning its political and economic anchoring using the “juridical field” model (Bourdieu1986). The essay is based on a wide theoretical framework. It starts by highlighting the problems evoked by the term ‘femicide’ (Corradi, et al.2016; Radford and Russell1992); its declension in criminal law and jurisprudence through its coding in specific types of offence (Merli2015). The ...
Source: Crime, Law and Social Change - February 11, 2022 Category: Criminology Source Type: research
