the Relation between Psychopathy and Juvenile Offending? is a paper that studies 1,354 juvenile offenders in both Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Phoenix, Arizona. The main objective of this paper was to study the interaction between intelligence and psychopathy in predicting the rate of offending. The motivation behind this hypothesis was based on various things; the first being two papers that studied the aspects of psychopathy predicting offending among teenage offenders. The first paper studied…
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This article consists of widely cited research conducted by professors from Monash University in 1998, their findings are supported by well-known researchers in the same field such as Walsh, Buchanan and Fahy (2002). The intended audience appears to be non-expert, making the terminology and content unchallenging to the average reader. The study involved the exploration of the psychiatric history of 4156 individuals convicted in the higher courts of Victoria between 1993 and 1995 through manual case…
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relation to recidivism1 Important note: The selection of studies included here is by no means comprehensive. This document merely aims to give a brief overview of the types of evidence available in relation to recidivism. It should be noted that the majority of studies included here are from North America, Australia, New Zealand and Europe (Netherlands and UK), with a few from Thailand, Hong Kong, Singapore and China. The studies are arranged into four categories, starting with those which show…
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Violent offenders are readily one of the most interesting topics of criminal justice. In 2015, there were 1,197,704 estimated violent crimes reported in the United States (cite). Research on violent offenders typically focuses on male offenders, however, emerging research has focused more on violent female offenders. A small amount of studies that have examined violent offenders using an intersectional approach have found that offenders often differ in their acts based on gender, race, class, and…
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should be in school learning and still getting to know life, has already been convicted for a criminal offense. Juveniles who start offending or committing crimes before age 12 are more likely to continue offending into early adulthood. Those adolescence who keep on into adulthood go from minor offenses to destructive violence. According to the Pittsburgh Youth, studies found that 52 to 57 percent of juvenile delinquents continue to offend up to age 25 which is early adulthood. Juveniles don’t go to…
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Criminal homicide is defined as killing of one person by another without any legal justification or excuse. Murder is felonious killing of another with malice aforethought (Nettler, 1982). It may be result of any violent crime like robbery or rape etc. Homicides involving honour is important research area for social scientists especially. Honour-killing results in criminal victimization of females and males especially in rural pockets of population in Sindh. Honour-oriented homicide victimization necessitates…
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INFLUENCE OF PARENTAL INCARCERATION ON OFFSPRING OFFENDING Lindsay B. Spiker Youngstown State University 1 University Plaza Youngstown, Ohio 44555 Version 1.1 December 2014 ABSTRACT Criminal behavior of parents substantially affects the predisposition of delinquent offending in their offspring. Using official data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) 1994-2008, Wave 4 (n-5,114), this study suggests that individuals who have had a…
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DISCRUPTED FAMILIES FARRINGTON 1 1 UPBRINGING LEARNING FROM OTHERS SUTHERLAND 2 AIM: Document the start, duration and end of offending behaviour from childhood to adulthood . Investigate influence of life events: the risk and protective factors predicting offending and antisocial behaviour, the transmission of offending and family background. PROCEDURE: longitudinal study of 411 boys aged 8 and 9 in 1953/4. Taken from 6 state schools in East London and were mostly white w/c and came from 397 different…
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Topic of Study: Family Factors and Juvenile Delinquency Ewelina Kot December 4, 2015 Research Methods, CJ 3675, Section 01, Fall 2015 My research topic is family factors and juvenile delinquency. This paper focuses on three independent variables: neglect, exposure to violence in the home, and single parent households. The purpose of my study is to answer whether or not family factors contribute to Juvenile delinquency. According to J.P. Ryan, A.B. Williams and M.E. Courtney (2013), juvenile offending…
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its mother, suggested that the maternal separation will lead to difficulties in an inability to form functional social relationship, since the attachment bond as the is the prototype for all future relationship. When apply to crime, basing on the research showing that almost 39% of the group of juvenile delinquency has the disruption of maternal relationship, Bowlby suggests that impaired ability to relate to other could result in both affectionless psychopathy and psychologically immature characterised…
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