The latest two issues of Victims & Offenders are now online. Follow the link to the publisher’s website for abstracts and access to full text articles.
Victims & Offenders 2(2), is a special issue on Early Intervention. Contents include:
Early Prevention of Delinquency and Later Criminal Offending: An Introduction – Brandon C. Welsh; David P. Farrington
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The must-read blog Corrections Sentencing was nice enough to comment that PCN was worth reading because we blogged research news from outside the US (thanks Michael!). Well, here’s another one a long way from the US. From a University of Stavanger Norway press release :
New research shows that immigrant boys in Norway bully [...]
Quick links from around the web:
Philosophy prof Eric Schwitzgebel posts on religious conviction and crime (his previous musing on religiosity and crime is here), drawing on a 2001 meta-analysis (which he charmingly describes as “a way of doing math instead of thinking”). Cognitive Daily’s Dave Munger comes to the defence of the meta analysis here.
A [...]
The May and June 2007 issues of Violence Against Women 13(5) and 13(6) are now online. Tables of contents available under the fold, but follow the links to the publisher’s website for abstracts and access to full text articles.
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The January, February and March 2007 issues of Journal of Interpersonal Violence (volume 22, issues 1, 2 & 3) are now online. Follow the links to the Sage website for abstracts and access to full text articles. Sign up for personalised ToC alerts here .
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The November 2006 issue of Aggressive Behavior 32(6) is now online. New issues of the following journals are now online. Follow the link to the publisher’s website for abstracts and access to full text articles. Contents include:
Alcohol-aggression expectancies and dispositional aggression moderate the relationship between alcohol consumption and alcohol-related violence – Sara Smucker Barnwell, Ashley [...]
Some news items from the last two weeks that caught my eye:
Prisons ripe for extremism , experts say (Los Angeles Daily News, 10 Sept):
California’s crowded prisons and jails are ripe for the recruiting of homegrown terrorists and pose a potential threat to the nation’s security, law enforcement officials and other anti-terrorism experts say. [...] ‘California [...]
Sorry about the length – these have been building up a bit, but below the fold, articles on child abuse, intimate partner violence, juvenile victims and offenders, offender treatment and rehabilitation, terrorism, aggression and violence, rape, psychopathy, stalking and Tourette’s.
Experts say brutal deaths of 3 women in Union County case fits pattern of emboldened serial killer, reports the Charlotte Observer (15 March). The first expert is Paul Friday, a UNC Charlotte criminology professor, who is reported as saying that
[...] serial killers typically have “revenge fantasies” caused by a “significant shock in their life.” [...]
NewScientist.com 29 October 04http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996600 The age at which kids first fall victim to bullying could influence how strongly they are affected, suggests a new study. And, surprisingly, it is not the youngest kids who are hurt the most in the long term. Bullying can have long-lasting effects, but particularly when it begins [...]
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