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Preface, Derek B. Cornish, 1. The reasoning criminal: Twenty-five years on, Benoit Leclerc and Richard Wortley, 2. What are violent offenders thinking? Richard Felson, 3. How burglars decide on targets: A computer-based scenario approach,... more
Preface, Derek B. Cornish, 1. The reasoning criminal: Twenty-five years on, Benoit Leclerc and Richard Wortley, 2. What are violent offenders thinking? Richard Felson, 3. How burglars decide on targets: A computer-based scenario approach, Ross Homel, Stuart MacIntyre, and Richard Wortley, 4. The risks and rewards of motor vehicle theft: Implications for criminal persistence, Heith Copes and Michael Cherbonneau, 5. The rational choice perspective and the phenomenon of stalking: An examination of sex differences in behaviours, rationales, situational precipitators and feelings, Carleen Thompson and Benoit Leclerc, 6. Interpersonal scripts and victim reaction in child sexual abuse: A quantitative analysis of the offender-victim interchange Benoit Leclerc, Stephen Smallbone and Richard Wortley, 7. Drug dealing: Amsterdam's Red Light district, Scott Jacques and Wim Bernasco, 8. Human trafficking for sexual exploitation in Italy, Ernesto Savona, Luca Giommoni and Marina Mancuso, 9. Script analysis of corruption in public procurement, Marco Zanella, 10. Cigarette smuggling and terrorism financing: A script approach, Alexandra Hiropoulos, Joshua Freilich, Steven Chermak and Graeme Newman, 11. Script analysis of the transnational illegal market in endangered species: Dream and reality, William Moreto and Ronald V. Clarke, 12. New developments in script analysis for situational crime prevention: Moving beyond offender scripts, Benoit Leclerc, 13. Rational choice and offender decision making: Lessons from the cognitive sciences, Richard Wortley.
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PurposeThis paper aims to investigate how evidence-based policing (EBP) is understood by police officers and citizens in Taiwan and the influence of police education on police recruit's receptivity to research evidence in... more
PurposeThis paper aims to investigate how evidence-based policing (EBP) is understood by police officers and citizens in Taiwan and the influence of police education on police recruit's receptivity to research evidence in policing.Design/methodology/approachThe study uses a cross-sectional design that includes Taiwanese police officers (n = 671) and a control group of Taiwanese criminology undergraduate students (n = 85). A research instrument covering five themes is developed, and after a pilot test the final scale remains 14 items.FindingsThe analysis suggests that police officers in Taiwan generally hold a positive view towards the role of research and researchers in policing, more so than is often observed in similar studies conducted in Western countries. Receptivity to research was found to be significantly higher among the non-police sample compared to the police sample. Moreover, time spent in police education was significantly associated with lower levels of receptivity...
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... Homel 8. Situational Prevention of Organised Crimes Edited by Karen Bullock, Ronald V. Clarke and Nick Tilley ... references. Anna Stewart, John Rynne and Aiden Sidebottom provided helpful feedback on one or more chapters. ...
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Routine activity approach represents one of the major advances in understanding crime to emerge in the second half of the 20th century. It describes the three essential ingredients — what Marcus Felson (2002) calls “the chemistry” — for... more
Routine activity approach represents one of the major advances in understanding crime to emerge in the second half of the 20th century. It describes the three essential ingredients — what Marcus Felson (2002) calls “the chemistry” — for crime. As we all know by heart, according to the “classic” routine activities approach a crime occurs when a likely offender meets a suitable target when there is an absence of a capable guardian.1 It is at the same time the simplest and most profound of theories. In fact, it is profound because it is simple, and those who criticize it on the grounds of its simplicity miss the point entirely. It is the ultimate in parsimony and a classic demonstration of Occam’s Razor, which, as rendered by Isaac Newton, commands that “we are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.” Against such advice, one tinkers with the routine activities approach with great caution. With this in mind, in this chapter, I offer some modest suggestions for extending the prevention applications that are suggested by the approach.
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Child sexual abuse image (CSAI) offending is a severe problem for modern societies. In the UK and elsewhere, the number of individuals arrested for possession of CSAI is growing. Although there is a vast amount of literature regarding... more
Child sexual abuse image (CSAI) offending is a severe problem for modern societies. In the UK and elsewhere, the number of individuals arrested for possession of CSAI is growing. Although there is a vast amount of literature regarding CSAI, little is known about how CSAI viewing could be earlier detected and deterred. This grounded theory study aimed at investigating how individuals who have viewed CSAI make sense of their online offending, how the offending process developed over time, what disrupted the viewing activity or what could have potentially disrupted it. Intensive interviews were conducted with individuals charged with CSAI possession (and in some cases convicted), which were analysed following a constructivist grounded theory approach. Findings suggest different pathways to CSAI viewing and various levels of engagement with the material. Rational thinking, affect, sexual arousal, as well as opportunities created by the Internet, all seemed to contribute to CSAI viewing....
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Making Sense of Crime brings together experts in the causes of crime and measures to reduce it, who share insights from reliable research evidence. This evidence reveals how misleading the political debate on crime is. The guide reviews... more
Making Sense of Crime brings together experts in the causes of crime and measures to reduce it, who share insights from reliable research evidence. This evidence reveals how misleading the political debate on crime is. The guide reviews how the media influences what politicians and the public think about crime, discusses the most reliable ways to judge how much crime is happening, and looks at how some of the common claims about crime and ways to reduces it stack up against research evidence. Making Sense of Crime also analyses some measures to tackle crime that are supported by evidence. Insights from the evidence in the guide include: Most types of crime are falling across developed countries and have been for around 25 years ‘Criminals’ aren’t a separate group from the rest of society Police statistics are not the best way to judge crime rates Crime isn’t caused by a single factor such as poverty, bad parenting, inequality, government cuts or influences such as video games The mo...
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This study examined the role of the reaction of the victim, the nature of the physical setting, and the proximity of third parties in deterring offenders from completing an act of child sexual abuse (CSA). A self-report study was... more
This study examined the role of the reaction of the victim, the nature of the physical setting, and the proximity of third parties in deterring offenders from completing an act of child sexual abuse (CSA). A self-report study was conducted with 238 adult males serving a custodial sentence for CSA, of whom 82 identified an occasion in which they had tried to have sexual contact with a child but did not because they were stopped or discouraged. We examined the situational characteristics of the noncompleted offense and compared these with the most recent completed offense by the same offenders. The most common reason for stopping the noncompleted offense, given by more than half of the participants, was the negative reaction of the child, and in particular, the direct request by the child to stop. Actual or potential actions by third parties were the next most cited reasons, with around a quarter of cases stopped because the offender was interrupted. In comparison to the noncomplete o...
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... Homel 8. Situational Prevention of Organised Crimes Edited by Karen Bullock, Ronald V. Clarke and Nick Tilley ... references. Anna Stewart, John Rynne and Aiden Sidebottom provided helpful feedback on one or more chapters. ...