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Burglars on the Job, Streetlife and Residential Break-ins
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This article is published in International Journal of The Sociology of Law.The article was published on 1995-09-01. It has received 243 citations till now.read more
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Murder by structure: Dominance relations and the social structure of gang homicide.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that gang murder is best understood not by searching for individual determinants but by examining the social networks of action and reaction that create it, and they define the social structure of gang murder as defined by the manner in which social networks are constructed and by people's placement in them.
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Does the Perceived Risk of Punishment Deter Criminally Prone Individuals? Rational Choice, Self-Control, and Crime:
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relationship between criminal propensity, perceived risks and costs of punishment, and criminal behavior and found that deterrence perceptions had their greatest impact on criminally prone study members.
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Identifying “deterrable” offenders: Implications for research on deterrence
TL;DR: In this article, a theoretical framework that distinguishes three forms of responsiveness to legal sanction threats: acute conformist, deterrable, and incorrigible is proposed, and the implications of the framework with data from a perceptual deterrence survey administered to 412 university students.
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The impact of british counterterrorist strategies on political violence in northern ireland: comparing deterrence and backlash models*
TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify six major British strategies aimed at reducing political violence in Northern Ireland from 1969 to 1992 and then use a Cox proportional hazard model to estimate the impact of these interventions on the risk of new attacks.
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Can Punishment Encourage Offending? Investigating The “resetting” Effect:
Greg Pogarsky,Alex R. Piquero +1 more
TL;DR: This paper investigated two competing explanations for the positive punishment effect, namely selection and resetting, and reported a preliminary empirical investigation of these explanations and addressed the challenge to contemporary deterrence theory posed by the “positive punishment effect.
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Murder by structure: Dominance relations and the social structure of gang homicide.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that gang murder is best understood not by searching for individual determinants but by examining the social networks of action and reaction that create it, and they define the social structure of gang murder as defined by the manner in which social networks are constructed and by people's placement in them.
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Does the Perceived Risk of Punishment Deter Criminally Prone Individuals? Rational Choice, Self-Control, and Crime:
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relationship between criminal propensity, perceived risks and costs of punishment, and criminal behavior and found that deterrence perceptions had their greatest impact on criminally prone study members.
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Identifying “deterrable” offenders: Implications for research on deterrence
TL;DR: In this article, a theoretical framework that distinguishes three forms of responsiveness to legal sanction threats: acute conformist, deterrable, and incorrigible is proposed, and the implications of the framework with data from a perceptual deterrence survey administered to 412 university students.
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The impact of british counterterrorist strategies on political violence in northern ireland: comparing deterrence and backlash models*
TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify six major British strategies aimed at reducing political violence in Northern Ireland from 1969 to 1992 and then use a Cox proportional hazard model to estimate the impact of these interventions on the risk of new attacks.
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Can Punishment Encourage Offending? Investigating The “resetting” Effect:
Greg Pogarsky,Alex R. Piquero +1 more
TL;DR: This paper investigated two competing explanations for the positive punishment effect, namely selection and resetting, and reported a preliminary empirical investigation of these explanations and addressed the challenge to contemporary deterrence theory posed by the “positive punishment effect.