Jessica Lee Stubbs
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4 days ago · The policing of predominantly minority communities is often more aggressive, leading to higher rates of arrest and incarceration. This reinforces racial stereotypes that associate certain ethnicities with criminal behavior, even though the root causes are socio-economic and structural. Blue-Collar Crime and the Criminal Justice System
2 days ago · Jaclyn M. Cwick is an Associate Professor in the School of Criminology, Criminal Justice, and Legal Studies at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, MI. Dr. Cwick received her PhD in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of Missouri–St. Louis in 2016. Her research is on communities and crime, the consequences of mass incarceration, and residents’ responses to crime.
4 days ago · The overarching goals of the corrections system are to remove dangerous criminals from the general population, deliver punishment appropriate to the crimes, and (ideally) correct criminal behavior and rehabilitate criminals.
3 days ago · Recidivism, tendency toward chronic criminal behaviour leading to numerous arrests and re-imprisonment. Studies of the yearly intake of prisons, reformatories, and jails in the United States and Europe show that from one-half to two-thirds of those imprisoned have served previous sentences in the.
3 days ago · A Killer by Design depicts how the team’s criminal personality study then pivoted from abstract research to an investigative tool. Burgess and the agents applied their insights into criminal behavior to an active murder investigation of young teen boys in Nebraska in 1983.
4 days ago · Police - Criminal Profiling, Evidence Analysis, Investigation: Criminal or offender profiling, also known as criminal investigative analysis, rests on the assumption that characteristics of an offender can be deduced by a systematic examination of characteristics of the offense.
5 days ago · This special issue of Criminology and Criminal Justice brings together articles from an international conference hosted by the Centre for Criminological Research (CCR) at the University of Sheffield on ‘Shifting Logics in Criminal Justice’, which took place on 12–14 April 2023.
