When dealing with crime causation theory, criminology has implications for policy formulation. In the author's experience, students seem unaware of these connections or are unable to articulate them. Recommendations for illustrating this connection include incorporating a policy orientation into the ...
Prevention; Part Five: Discipline and Governance; Part Six: Criminological Transformations.It contains new readings on: social control theory; opportunity theory; gender and crime control; race and criminalisation; the governance of crime; psycho-social criminology; cultural criminology; and global ...
The four themes are: Exploring the connections between the study of crime and its control and the larger concerns of the contemporary social sciences with such ideas as risk,globalization, networks, race, gender, citizenship, governance, and culture. The theory and practice of comparative criminolog...
Formalised modelling of action theory in the explanation of crime for prediction, deduction and intervention This dissertation proposes an original approach to theory of action in psychological and sociological criminology, i.e. to theory explaining the causation ... D.H - University of Cambridge 被...
(A) difference-in-means with inverse probability weights to account for differential probabilities of assignment by block; and (B) regression of outcome on treatment assignment with controls for pre-treatment characteristics and inverse probability weights (p. 9). In theory, the overall design was ...
This is in concordance with general criticisms of RAT focussing upon the mechanisms through which at the intersection of individual and environment, individuals are moved to commit criminal or abusive acts. Wikstrm's Situational Action Theory of Crime Causation is discussed with regard to its ...
In particular, theories of crime causation evident in schools of criminological thought are not relied upon even though ostensibly such theories would appear to have a degree of relevance to the sentencing task. In this article, a short sketch of contemporary criminological theory is provided. This...
Designed for upper-level senior and graduate criminological theory courses, this text thoroughly examines the ideas and assumptions underlying each major theoretical perspective in criminology. It lays bare theorists' ideas about human nature, social structure, social order, concepts of law, crime and ...
In theory, the overall design was powerful. In practice, however, the choice of officers as the unit of analysis in BWC experiments faces the greatest threat of spillover effects, to a point that field studies comparing any police practice assigned only to some and not others who work in ...
In theory, the overall design was powerful. In practice, however, the choice of officers as the unit of analysis in BWC experiments faces the greatest threat of spillover effects, to a point that field studies comparing any police practice assigned only to some and not others who work in ...