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Criminal Behavior And The Justice System - Psychological Perspectives

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 Readers of this book can gain novel insight into the various theoretical perspectives of psychology and law. Legal psychology proves to be an independent, interdisciplinary part of psychology.
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Policing And Punishing The Drinking Driver - A Study Of General And Specific Deterrence

by Ross Homel

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 Policing and Punishing the Drinking Driver is at one level about the impact of specific drinking-driving countermeasures (punishments imposed by courts on convicted offenders and random breath testing) in a particular place (New South Wales, Australia) in two particular years (1972 and 1983).
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Multiple Problem Youth - Delinquency, Substance Use, And Mental Health Problems

by David Huizinga, Delbert S. Elliott e Scott Menard

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 <B>Multiple Problem Youth</B> addresses the complex connections among drug abuse, delinquency, and mental health problems as they apply to adolescents and young adults. Interrelationships in this area exist in a vast variety of ways, further complicated by extraneous factors such as demographics, sex, and time. The authors incorporate these factors and analyze the correlations among substance use, delinquency, and mental health problems, as well as discussing developmental patterns and reviewing theories of deviant behavior.
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Urban Crime, Criminals, And Victims - The Swedish Experience In An Anglo-American Comparative Perspective

by Per-Olof H. Wikstrom

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 Crime is largely an urban phenomenon, but the specifically urban and area dimen sions of the social processes that are connected with crime have been seriously understated in much recent criminological work ... Such a claim could not have been made forty years ago. (Baldwin & Bottoms, 1976, p. 1). The above statement by Baldwin and Bottoms about the neglect in crimi nology of the urban dimension of crime was made in the mid-1970s. However, in the last decade there has been a significant upswing in theory and research on crime in the urban environment. Also, new areas oftheory and research into urban crime have come into focus. (For overviews see Brantingham & Brantingham, 1984; Davidson, 1981.) One very good example of the increasing interest in urban crime is the recent volume of Crime and Justice entitled "Communities and Crime" (Reiss & Tonry, 1986), in which Reiss makes a strong argument for the importance of the study of crime in urban communities and for the linking of the ecological and individual traditions in theory and research on crime. A review of the literature on crime in urban environments shows, not unexpectedly, that Anglo-American research heavily dominates the scene (Wikstrom, 1982; 1987b). Hence, much of the experience we have on urban crime is based on North American and British research and theory.
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Deterrence And Juvenile Crime - Results From A National Policy Experiment

by Anne L. Schneider

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 "Americans have an abiding faith in punishment", asserts Anne Schneider in her introduction of Deterrence and Juvenile Crime. Dr. Schneider explores this "abiding faith" in her volume, overviewing past assumptions that punishment or merely the threat of punishment necessarily deters criminal behavior.
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Coping, Behavior, And Adaptation In Prison Inmates

by Edward Zamble e Frank J. Porporino

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 Most of my time in the institution was spent with inmates with a variety of problems, probably about 50 individuals over the course of a year. Although this was far fewer than a full-time psychologist in the system might encounter, it served as a quick cram course on problem prisoners and prisoner problems.
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Understanding And Controlling Crime - Toward A New Research Strategy

by David P. Farrington, James Q. Wilson e Lloyd E. Ohlin

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 A Report Comm. by the Justice Program Study Group of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
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Social Contexts Of Criminal Sentencing

by Martha A. Myers e Susette M. Talarico

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 The second question directs attention to the social contexts of sentencing and asks whether they directly affect sentencing outcomes.
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Off School, In Court - An Experimental And Psychiatric Investigation Of Severe School Attendance Problems

by Ian Berg, Imogen Brown e Roy Hullin

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 This book is concerned with an investigation of severe school attendance problems. The research describes the first use of randomly controlled trials by the courts in Great Britain and the psychiatric assessment of a non-clinical population of poor attenders.
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Predicting Recidivism Using Survival Models

by Ann D. Witte e Peter Schmidt

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 Our interest in the statistical modeling of data on the timing of recidivism began in the mid 1970s when we were both junior members of the eco- nomics department at the University of North Carolina.
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Male Criminal Activity From Childhood Through Youth - Multilevel And Developmental Perspectives

by Marc le Blanc e Marcel Frechette

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 <B>Male Criminal Activity From Childhood Through Youth</B> reports the results of a large longitudinal study from 1972 to 1985 on a sample of delinquents and a comparison sample of the population in Montreal. A clarification emerges from this extensive study: how to describe criminal activity in a comprehensive theory of crime which integrates the offense, offending, and patterns of offending. Using a developmental approach, Drs. Le Blanc and Fréchette observed a gradation of crimes with subjects progressing through five distinct stages of offending. In all, the research investigates the factors that sustain the development of offending and the mechanisms which accelerate, stabilize, and decelerate the commission of crimes. This book represents a significant advance in the understanding of the development of criminal activity.
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Developments In Crime And Crime Control Research - German Studies On Victims, Offenders, And The Public

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 "One of the central features of modern German criminology in revealing the 'true nature of crime' follows the tradition of enlightment" instead of accommodating the approach of the criminal justice system. This contention is made by the editors of Developments in Crime and Crime Control Research, Drs. Sessar and Kerner, as they continue to bridge the traditional gap between Anglo-American scholars in criminology and their German counterparts. The language barrier has long been another contributing circumstance to the division of philosophy among countries, but recently, substantial attempts are being undertaken to examine more closely the differences among specific criminological schools of thinking. Drs. Sessar and Kerner point out that, although crime has its universality, a clear understanding of the various approaches to the problem of crime will prove of benefit to those in the field in all countries.
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Understanding Crime Incidence Statistics - Why The Ucr Diverges From The Ncs

by Albert D. Biderman e James P. Lynch

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 The prominence achieved by the novel measure of "households touched by crime" when it was introduced into the National Crime Survey (NCS) in 1981 was responsible for renewed attention to comparisons between the crime rates reported by the NCS and the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR). The new NCS measure suggested that crime was declining; this at a time of widespread awareness that the UCR Index was at all-time highs. Com- parisons of the NCS and UCR in The New York Times (1981) and the Washington Post (1981) had the unfortunate consequence of reviving old and usually ill-informed arguments about which is the "better" measure of "trends in crime. " More recent discrepant changes of the two measures in 1986 and 1987 rekindled the debate, although with somewhat diminished stridency. The efforts of criminological statisticians to develop an appreciation for the two statistical systems as quite different but complementary measures have suffered a setback in these debates, but an opportunity is also afforded to improve the understanding of crime statistics by officials, the media, and the public. The need remains for the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) , the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the research community to explain in quantitative terms the ways in which the two systems attend to different, albeit overlapping, aspects of the crime problem.
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Judicial Decision Making, Sentencing Policy, And Numerical Guidance

by Austin Lovegrove

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 This book describes an original, empirical study of judicial decision making. The present study introduces a conceptual outline and empirical technique for increasing the precision of sentencing policy, thus offering an aid to judges who sentence in the light of this policy.
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Justice Under Pressure - A Comparison Of Recidivism Patterns Among Four Successive Parolee Cohorts

by Sheldon Ekland-Olson e William R. Kelly

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 Setting out to identify differences in recidivism and the crime rate as a result of the changes instituted in Texas, the authors report the findings of their comparative "survival analysis" of 4 successive cohorts of parolees, plus a chapter specifically directed at a comparative analysis of an emergency release cohort.
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Prisons Crowding: A Psychological Perspective

by Paul Paulus

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 This volume is a summary of a 1S-year effort to determine the effects of prison crowding and their relationship to the broader realm of crowding phenomena and theories.
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Selective Incapacitation And The Serious Offender - A Longitudinal Study Of Criminal Career Patterns

by Rudy Haapanen

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 And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee; for it is profitable for thee that one ofthy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. Matthew 5. 30 The great War on Pover,ty of the 1960s focused on the root causes of crime, unemployment, lack of education, and discrimination. It was eventually agreed that the War on Poverty failed as a crime control program, and the focus of policy shifted toward more proximate causes of crime. Infact, it seems safe to say that since the 1960s, the United States has looked primarily to the criminal justice system to solve its crime problem. With the 1990s upon us, what can we say about the success of crime control policies that rely on the criminal justice system? The picture, taken one approach or program at a time, is not good. It is now generally agreed that the criminal justice system fails to rehabilitate offenders, to make them less likely to commit criminal acts as a result of treatment or training; that the system fails to deter potential offenders, to make them less likely to commit criminal acts out of fear of penal sanctions; and that such programs as increased police patrols, reinstatement of the death penalty, and modification of the exclusionary rule are unlikely to have much effect on crime, at least within the limits imposed on them by reasonable assessments of their costs.
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Crime And Criminal Policy In Japan - Analysis And Evaluation Of The Showa Era, 1926-1988

by Minoru Shikita e Shinichi Tsuchiya

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 Results from the task of gathering, evaluating and analyzing criminological data for a period in the history of Japan, the Showa Era, during which even the recording of data was dramatically affected by change. This book is useful for those interested in criminological topics.
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Social Ecology Of Crime

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Human Development And Criminal Behavior - New Ways Of Advancing Knowledge

by David P. Farrington, Lloyd E. Ohlin e Michael Tonry

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Developments In Crime And Crime Control Research - German Studies On Victims, Offenders, And The Public

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 Sessar and Kerner point out that, although crime has its universality, a clear understanding of the various approaches to the problem of crime will prove of benefit to those in the field in all countries.
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Prisons Crowding: A Psychological Perspective

by Paul B. Paulus

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 This volume is a summary of a 1S-year effort to determine the effects of prison crowding and their relationship to the broader realm of crowding phenomena and theories.
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Deterrence And Juvenile Crime - Results From A National Policy Experiment

by Anne L. Schneider

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 "Americans have an abiding faith in punishment", asserts Anne Schneider in her introduction of Deterrence and Juvenile Crime. Dr. Schneider explores this "abiding faith" in her volume, overviewing past assumptions that punishment or merely the threat of punishment necessarily deters criminal behavior.
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Selective Incapacitation And The Serious Offender - A Longitudinal Study Of Criminal Career Patterns

by Rudy Haapanen

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 It was eventually agreed that the War on Poverty failed as a crime control program, and the focus of policy shifted toward more proximate causes of crime. It is now generally agreed that the criminal justice system fails to rehabilitate offenders, to make them less likely to commit criminal acts as a result of treatment or training;
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