Recently released video and podcasts on topics relevant to psychology and crime. Follow the links for access to the audio and visual material.
Advances in the History of Psychology recently alerted us to a 2005 PBS documentary The New Asylums, which examined the plight of mentally ill prisoners in the USA:
In “The New Asylums,” FRONTLINE goes [...]
Round-up of reports featured on Docuticker in the last few weeks:
More Men, More Crime: Evidence from China’s One-Child Policy (published by Institute for the Study of Labor December 2007):
…This paper exploits two unique features of the Chinese experience: the change in the sex ratio was both large and mainly in response to the implementation of [...]
Latest criminal justice-related reports via Docuticker
Analysis of Racial Disparities in the New York Police Department’s Stop, Question, and Frisk Practices, published by RAND (full report and summary available via the link):
In 2006, the New York City Police Department (NYPD) stopped a half-million pedestrians for suspected criminal involvement. Raw statistics for these encounters suggest large racial [...]
The UK Home Office has published several new reports in the last month.
Five reports deal with different aspects of illicit drug use. Home Office Research Report 02 provides results on a Drug Interventions Programme (DIP): addressing drug use and offending through ‘Tough Choices’ (pdf). Home Office Research Report 03 reports on a Drug [...]
An article in the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography reports on a long-term study of how drug-using offenders tell truth and lies in a US drug court. Mackinem (the paper’s first author) is a member of drug court staff, and the discussion of how he and his co-author negotiated the challenges of ‘participant observation’ is as [...]
European Journal of Criminology 4(4) , October 2007 is now online. Follow the link to the publisher’s website for abstracts and access to full text articles.
Contents include:
Birds of Different Feathers: School Networks of Serious Delinquent, Minor Delinquent and Non-delinquent Boys and Girls – Frank M. Weerman and Catrien C. J. H. Bijleveld
The Victimization of Dependent [...]
Latest criminal justice-related reports from Docuticker
Public School Practices for Violence Prevention and Reduction: 2003–04 (National Center for Education Statistics): “This Issue Brief (1) examines principals’ reports of the prevalence of formal practices in public schools designed to prevent or reduce school violence and (2) describes the distribution of these practices by selected school characteristics.”
When Men [...]
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The latest two issues of Journal of Experimental Criminology are now online. Follow the link to the publisher’s website for abstracts and access to full text articles.
Journal of Experimental Criminology 3(2), June 2007 is a special issue on Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Research in the Netherlands. Contents include:
Experimental and quasi-experimental criminological research in the Netherlands [...]
The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology 18(2) is now online. Follow the link to the publisher’s website for abstracts and access to full text articles.
Contents include:
‘Just Say No’: A preliminary evaluation of a three-stage model of integrated treatment for substance use problems in conditions of medium security – Helen Miles; Lisa Dutheil; [...]
