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Anorectal trauma. Medicolegal and forensic aspects
(Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 1989-03)A review of both deliberate and accidental anorectal trauma is presented. The mechanisms and types of injuries as well as the complications are discussed. Injuries resulting from sexual assaults are discussed in detail. -
Behavioral evidence analysis on Facebook: a test of cyber-profiling
(European Defendology Center (Banja Luka, Serbia), 2013)This article applies criminal profiling in a cyber-context. More precisely, a deductive profiling method, behavioral evidence analysis, is adopted to develop cyber-profiling that aims to analyze the subject’s online behaviors. ... -
Book review: Managing the Investigative Unit, 2nd edition
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Bringing course material to life through experiential learning: impacts on students’ learning and perceptions in a corrections course
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-11-12)Experiential learning can be an effective practice to improve student engagement, comprehension, and application of course material in criminal justice classrooms. The current study analyzes 33 undergraduate students’ ... -
Changing trajectory: an integrated theoretical view of the Roman Catholic priest sex abuse scandal
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2016)The sexual abuse of children by Roman Catholic priests across the United States is a direct result of access to children, and that access changes across the life-course of individual priests. Turning points affect not only ... -
Chapter 11 -- Forced labor in the United States
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2015)In recent years human trafficking has received a great deal of attention, but defining and identifying human trafficking victims has been difficult. Before defining human trafficking the reader should recognize that human ... -
Chapter 12 -- Areas where vulnerable public transit commuters reside: a method for targeting crime prevention and other resources to address local area problems
(Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2015)Hart and Miethe (Chapter 11 in this volume) focused on where street robberies occur, taking proximate environments into account. In this chapter, we shift the focus from crime events and features of places to potential ... -
Chapter 16 -- Human trafficking laws and legal trends
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2015)Human trafficking has become a "hot topic" in the general media, yet the perception that victims of human trafficking crimes bear a responsibility for their victimization has long hampered the criminal justice system from ... -
Chapter 4 -- Psychology of human trafficking
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2015)Human trafficking is often referred to as a form of "modern-day slavery" (Hoyle, Bosworth, and Dempsey 2011). Although this conceptualization of domestic human sex trafficking captures the involuntary nature of human ... -
Chapter 5 -- Factorial survey research in the study of environmental regulatory processes
(Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018-06-29)In this chapter, we describe how factorial surveys are (and can be) used to study the impact of environmental law and enforcement on corporate compliance. We begin by outlining the benefits and limitations of the factorial ... -
Chapter 5 -- Human trafficking and the internet
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2015)The internet is a large network of smaller networks. It was first created in the 1980s so that various computer networks could communicate with one another through a standardized protocol suite. TCP/IP. Simply put, different ... -
Child sexual abuse in Japan: a systematic review and future directions
(Elsevier B.V., 2017-04)Introduction: Estimating the national prevalence of child sexual abuse (CSA) and its association with health and developmental outcomes is the first step in developing prevention strategies. While such data are available ... -
College students' justification for digital piracy: a mixed methods study
(Sage Publications, Inc, 2012-10)A mixed methods project was devoted to understanding college students' justification for digital piracy. The project consisted of two studies, a qualitative one and a quantitative one. Qualitative interviews were conducted ... -
Commuters using public transit in New York City: Using area-level data to identify neighbourhoods with vulnerable riders
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2014-04)This study uses routine activity theory and research on victimization and fear of crime to contextualize the importance of examining characteristics related to crime-target vulnerability among public transit commuters. A ... -
Comparison of the battles at the Little Bighorn and at Isandhlwana. Medicolegal and forensic aspects
(Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 1992-03)Compared are two great and remarkably similar battles that occurred less than 3 years apart: the U.S. Cavalry versus the Plains Indians in the battle at the Little Bighorn in Montana Territory of the United States, and the ... -
Covert communication by means of email spam: a challenge for digital investigation
(Elsevier Science Inc., 2015-06)In digital investigations the investigator typically has to deal with thousands of digital artifacts. Among them, email has long been one of the many focuses that potentially can generate useful information. However, in ... -
Criminal justice and community psychology: Our values and our work—The introduction to the special issue
(Springer Verlag, 2021-03-15)This special issue of The American Journal of Community Psychology originated from the Society for Community Research and Action Criminal Justice interest group, with a goal of exploring the work of community psychologists ... -
Cross-national differences in women’s imprisonment rates: exploring the conditional effects of gender inequality and other macro-level factors
(Routledge, 2019-10-08)Prior research examined cross-national differences in imprisonment, yet few studies considered the specific nature of women’s imprisonment. The current study fills an important gap in the literature by assessing the ... -
Cyber profiling in criminal investigation
(IGI Global, 2021-01-01)The line between street crimes and cybercrimes has been increasingly blurry, given the prevalence of internet access. In all kinds of criminal investigations, digital information has become relevant and even crucial in ... -
The development of forensic medicine in the United Kingdom from the 18th century
(Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 1992-06)Forensic medicine in the United Kingdom includes both forensic pathology and clinical forensic medicine on the living. It began at the end of the 18th century, long after its development in Germany, Italy, France, and other ...