Crime

Causes, Types & Victims

Buch | Hardcover

242 Seiten

2012
Nova Science Publishers Inc (Verlag)
978-1-61728-931-6 (ISBN)

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Presents research in the study of crime including such topics as the role of police deception in interrogation and juror's perceptions of these techniques; the link between personal victimisation and fear of crime; police effectiveness and crime rates; and, juvenile offenders tried in adult criminal court.

Crime is the breach of rules or laws for which some governing authority can ultimately prescribe a conviction. Individual human societies may each define crime and crimes differently. Crime has been constant in the history of mankind and is a pervasive phenomenon affecting all societies. This book presents current research in the study of crime including such topics as the role of police deception in interrogation and juror's perceptions of these techniques; the link between personal victimisation and fear of crime; police effectiveness and crime rates; and juvenile offenders tried in adult criminal court.

Preface; False Confessions: The Role of Police Deception in Interrogation & Jurors' Perceptions of the Techniques & their Outcomes; Criminals & Warriors: The Use of Criminals for the Purpose of War-The Serbian Paramilitary Units; The Linking Mechanisms between Personal Victimization & Fear of Crime: Testing a Theory of Psychological Incapacitation; Learning from Crime: The Case of the 'Tlahuac' Lynching; The Relationship between Police Effectiveness & Crime Rates; An Exploration of Child Exploitation in a Juror Simulation Study; Jurors' Perceptions of Juvenile Offenders Tried in Adult Criminal Court; Effects of Feedback on Self-Assessed & Actual Abilities to Tell Lies; From Victim to Perpetrator: The Impact of Community Violence; Capillary Electrophoretic Microdevice for Highly Sensitive Short Tandem Repeat Genotyping; The Macro Economics of Illegal Activity; Implications of X Chromosome Markers in Forensic Genetics; On the Roles of Spatial Interactions & Heteroscedasticity in Crime Modeling; Index.

Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	260 x 180 mm
Gewicht	666 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
ISBN-10	1-61728-931-0 / 1617289310
ISBN-13	978-1-61728-931-6 / 9781617289316
Zustand	Neuware