Showing papers in "Victims & Offenders in 2020"

TL;DR: Given the historically contentious relationship between the police and African Americans, the current project examines the extent to which the use of excessive and lethal force by the police affects the lives of African Americans as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The COVID-19 pandemic infiltrated the United States in early 2020, with correctional facilities becoming hot spots for the novel coronavirus shortly thereafter as mentioned in this paper, using data gathered from Departments of State and Health and Human Services.

TL;DR: Using data drawn from the 2015 School Crime Supplement to the National Crime Victimization Survey, this article investigated whether specific types of bullying experienced by a youth influenced his or her ability to cope with bullying.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine transitional justice mechanisms to determine if historical abuse inquiries can learn from this field of practice, and explore the Northern Ireland Historica (NIH).

TL;DR: Among 2,200 criminally active responden... as discussed by the authors found that fear of victimization among the general population has received much scholarly attention, yet fear among people involved in crime remains largely overlooked.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the influence of the Alt-Right on the 2016 U.S. presidential election and its influence on the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.

TL;DR: In this article, the majority of these studies focused on fear of crime through the lens of policing, and they focused on policing as a means of "constraining" the public to fear crime.

TL;DR: In this article, the central question of the authors is: "To what extent and how do the needs of cybercrime victims deviate from those of traditional offline offenders?" In total, 19 victims and 22 offenders were identified.

TL;DR: As the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) spread across the United States in spring 2020, the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) made the startling announcement that of its 2,700 initial screenings of inmates for...

TL;DR: The presence of physical security measures, especially those that focus on the monitoring and control of students such as security guards and securit... as mentioned in this paper, has been identified as one of the most important aspects of the school context.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the global impact of Covid-19 on corrections and propose a global impact analysis of the Covid19-based correction algorithm for correcting errors.

TL;DR: For example, there are more than 4.5 million Americans under some form of community supervision as mentioned in this paper, and much of the experience of traditional community supervision relies on face-to-face interactions.

TL;DR: Despite a decade of rising violence in Mexico, it is unclear how victimization is associated with participation in cultural and artistic activities as mentioned in this paper, and this study contributes to fulfilling this gap.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the construction of a dominant narrative around human trafficking at Mexico´s southern border, as articulated through the experiences of two specific actors: sex workers and traffics.

TL;DR: Overall, 6 months into the coronavirus crisis, the adopted measures appear to have helped curtail the spread of the virus within prisons, but at a great cost to the inmates and their families.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors apply a multi-theoretical lens to both cyber abuse perpetration and cyber abuse within intimate relationships. But, they focus on the cyber abuse in intimate relationships and do not address the cyber-bullying aspect.

TL;DR: This article found that people are more punitive toward violent than nonviolent offenders, while people are pragmatic in response to crime control, individuals are still more punitive towards violent than non-violent offenders.

TL;DR: In this paper, participants from a large school district were asked to participate in a lockdown drill in order to evaluate the effectiveness of the drill and its effectiveness in school emergency preparedness strategy, yet there was an alarming lack of empirical data to inform their use.

TL;DR: This paper examined both main effects and cross-level effects of prior criminal justice contact on delinquency and violence using multilevel longitudinal data from the Project on Human Development on Chicane.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss active assailant protocols across American schools and discuss the safety and well-being of our nation's youth at the same time, while both sides of this debate have the safety of our youth at hear...

TL;DR: A sizable amount of research has empirically tested Gottfredson and Hirschi's general theory of crime, with results showing that low self-control is an important correlate of offending as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In the parricide literature, women have been depicted as overly domineering, and women are primarily discussed as victims and offenders in intimate partner homicides and infanticides.

TL;DR: The range of secondary (witnessed) violence experiences among incarcerated persons lacks comprehensive development in the literature as mentioned in this paper, which is a critical area of study in the field of violence exposure.

TL;DR: In this article, crime reporting behavior among school-age victims has been studied and found to be similar to that of adults reporting crimes to the police, but with different reporting patterns.

TL;DR: A sample of Americans in early adulthood was surveyed to determine whether and how victimization shapes future offending among non-Hispanic Whites, non- Hispanic Blacks, and Hispanics and to exa... as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: Examining the strategies employed by one provincial correctional authority in Canada that has to date successfully prevented the spread of COVID-19 in custody centers by adopting a health-informed approach to the crisis rather than a traditional justice-informed response highlights practices that can inform the responses of other jurisdictions as the pandemic continues.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the routine activities framework to identify motivation, target, and guardian characteristics influencing the severity of mass shooting fatalities and injuries, and found that the characteristics of a shooter's motivation and target were correlated.

TL;DR: The authors used interview data collected from individuals to investigate victim services for identity-based crimes and found that victim services can be useful in identifying identity based crimes and identifying identity-related crimes.

TL;DR: The ways in which prison officials have quickly responded to the coronavirus pandemic as well as their ongoing efforts to improve the conditions for those incarcerated are highlighted.

TL;DR: The authors advocate the benefits of rehabilitation and reintegration of offenders to curtail crime and recidivism, yet, discussions about criminal justice tend to reinforce the belief that crime is a "choice".