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Research investigating women’s risk assessments for intimate partner violence (IPV) shows that women can predict future violence
with relative accuracy. Limited research has investigated factors that are associated with perceived risk and the potential
behavioral consequences of victim risk perception. Results from a survey of women in a domestic violence shelter ( N = 56) indicated that women perceive lower risk of future violence if the abusive relationship were to end and higher risk
of violence if it were to continue. Certain abuse experiences were related to elevated perceptions of personal risk for future
violence. Further, perceived personal risk predicted the women’s intention to terminate their relationship upon leaving shelter.
Results are discussed as they may inform interventions preventing IPV.
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In an effort to examine how higher education institutions have provided women with resources to handle issues that disproportionately
affect them, this study assessed the availability of women’s resource centers on college campuses within the United States,
with a particular focus on sexual assault-related resources. A website content analysis was conducted, through which we coded
to assess ease of use, clarity, and comprehensiveness of the programs and information made available to women. Although many
universities had sexual assault literature, few had women’s resource centers. In addition, the quality of literature and programs
varied greatly among the universities. Future research should attempt to explain organizational differences in college responses
to the call for resources, as well as examine women’s experiences with resources on campus.
Portions of this research were presented at the 2006 meetings of the American Society of Criminology in Los Angeles, CA and
at the 2006 meetings of the Midwest Sociological Society in Omaha, NE.
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This article examines the relationship between how women who experience violence from a male partner construct themselves,
and how criminal legal discourse constructs female victims of violence. It is argued that in both arenas, women are constructed
according to norms which emanate from a discourse of conventional femininity which operates together with a practice of shame.
Utilising empirical data gained from qualitative interviews with women who experienced male violence, the article contends
that the construction of the female victim of violence in criminal legal discourses as imbued with stereotypical ‘feminine’
characteristics such as passivity and weakness, may influence these women’s own construction and understanding of themselves.
The existence of a practice of shame further consolidates the self-regulation of the women themselves to these norms of femininity.
This construction is posited to be problematic as the experiences of women of male violence rarely ‘fit’ within these explanations.
The article contends that in order to better understand women’s experiences of male violence; both criminal legal and individual
women’s discourses need to be read in terms of the power, knowledge and effects which they exert upon individual women. It
is argued that this alternative reading of these discourses has the potential for transformation as they are invested in the
subject.
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The present research suggests that stranger harassment (i.e., experiencing unwanted sexual attention from strangers in public)
is a frequent experience for young adult women, and that it has negative implications for their well-being. First, stranger
harassment was positively related to self-objectification (Fredrickson & Roberts, Psychol Women Quart 21:173–206 1997). This was true for women who coped with stranger harassment using common strategies (passive, self-blame, or benign), but
not for women who used an uncommon, active coping strategy (e.g., confronting the harasser). Second, stranger harassment experiences
and self-objectification were positively related to women’s fear of and perceived risk of rape. Further, women who feared
rape were more likely to restrict their freedom of movement. In concert, the findings suggest that stranger harassment may
have both direct and indirect negative effects on women’s lives, and that it is a phenomenon worthy of future research.
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This commentary on Michael Cahill’s Grading Arson argues that Cahill’s analysis inevitably leads to three possible conclusions. First, arson does not belong in criminal codes.
Second, crimes of manner do not belong in criminal codes. And, third, the special part needs serious reconsideration. Although
Cahill is reticent to draw any of these conclusions, this commentary urges Cahill to embrace all three.
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This paper shows a non-linear relationship between investment and interest rates under uncertainty. Since the interest rate’s
variance is positively related to the investment’s value (through the discount factor) and, generally, is also positively
related to the interest rate’s level, then, at the same time, a negative (classical) and a positive (through the interest
rate’s variance) relationship links interest rates to investment. Hence, an ultimate and even positive relationship between
investment and interest rates’ (expected) level may occur. A specific model is proposed and the conditions upon which the
positive effect occurs are derived. Some estimates are also proposed.
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Building on a handful of studies demonstrating battered women’s accuracy in assessing their risk of being physically reabused,
this study examined how accurately victims assess their risk of future psychological abuse. Participants’ ratings of the likelihood
that their partner would engage in controlling/dominance behaviors or efforts to humiliate/degrade them in the coming year
and their reports 18 months later of whether this had actually occurred were used to create a four category version of accuracy
(true positive, false positive, true negative, false negative). Victims were more likely to be right than wrong in their assessments
of risk; PTSD symptoms, the recency of physical violence, and the degree of stalking and psychological abuse in the relationship
predicted membership in the four accuracy categories. These findings overlap considerably with those examining victim accuracy
in predicting physical abuse and inform ongoing debates about the value of incorporating victims’ insights into risk assessment
efforts.
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Among various kinds of corruption in China, corruption of the First-in-Command (FIC) is most pernicious, threatening the legitimacy
of the Chinese Communist Party and the stability of the state. This paper examines several specific institutional arrangements
under China’s current political structure, including the people’s congress, the ruling party system, and the collective leadership
team system, to see how they have contributed to power overconcentration in the hands of FICs. This is done in a two-round
process: first through the collective leadership team and then by the gestating decision-making rule. The paper also assesses
four institutional innovations designed to prevent FIC corruption.
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Considering earlier research into police use of force as well as the judicial and practical frame of police work in Germany,
the article presents the results of an empirical study on the individual and collective legitimization of the use of force
by German police officers. There are numerous justifications for the use of force expressed by focus group participants in
eight German Federal States who were responding to a hypothesized scenario. In the discussions observed within the groups,
reference is first made to the state’s duty to prosecute alleged offences and the measures or formal actions to do this—hence,
the legal authority to use force. In the course of the discussions, however, it became obvious that illegal violence may occur,
although it was not perceived as such by the officers. Overall, and after an intensive analysis of the focus group discussions,
it can be stated that use of force (whether legal or not) depends on the police officer’s perception of the resistance of
the person being engaged with. In this regard, different social–cultural or physical–material factors can be identified. They
have different influences on the individual legitimization of police actions, intertwined with the perception of the situation
as constructed by the officer. Three ways of perceiving the situation can be deduced, resulting in different patterns of justification
for the use of force.
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Conflicting evidence exists on how criminal propensity moderates deterrent effects, and there is little empirical evidence
on this issue from relatively experienced offenders. This study tested how variation in criminal propensity (operationalized
as “low self-control”) moderates deterrent effects in a sample of convicted offenders in New Jersey’s Intensive Supervision
Program in 1989 and 1990. Offenders’ perceptions of the risks and consequences from violating ISP were associated with whether
they successfully completed ISP. Moreover, lower self-control did not diminish, and if anything, enhanced these deterrent
effects.
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American Indian and European American women’s definitions and perceived causes for domestic violence were examined. Attitudes
towards violence and battering as it relates to the self were measured with two scales. As predicted, results indicated American
Indian women and European American women held different conceptualizations of what constitutes domestic violence and different
notions concerning the cause of domestic violence. Also, American Indian women were more attuned to external causes for violence,
while European American women referred to internal explanations for such violence. Differences in social and psychological
histories of violence and attitudinal orientations toward violence were indicated. Legal and health system changes are recommended
in order to combat violence in Indian country.
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Feminists have so often declared and celebrated the fecundity of the relationship between feminism and legal reform that critique
of legal doctrine and norms, together with proposals for their reconstruction, have become the hallmarks of the modern feminist
engagement with law. Yet today the long-cherished ‘truth’ about law’s potentially beneficial impact on women’s lives has started
to fade and the quest for legal change has become fraught with problems. In responding to the aporetic state in which feminist legal scholarship now finds itself, this paper offers a recounting of the relationship between feminism
and the politics of legal reform. However, in so doing, it seeks neither to support nor to oppose these politics. Instead,
it explores the historical contingencies that made this discourse possible. Utilizing Foucault’s concept of episteme, it demarcates the nineteenth century as the historical moment in which this discourse arose, and tracing the epistemic shifts underpinning the production of knowledge, locates its positivities at the interface of the time’s episteme and the discourse of transcendental subjectivity that it engendered.
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In this article, I confront Garvey’s argument that a weak-willed individual deserves partial excuse for trying to resist a
strong desire that pushes him toward commission of a criminal act even though in the end he unreasonably abandons his resistance
and commits the crime. I attempt to refute Garvey’s argument on two counts: one, I question whether the law should indeed
provide mitigation to such an offender; and two, I argue that, even if it should, this mitigation may not come in the form
of a partial defense. Defenses, even partial, are desert based, and there is nothing in Garvey’s offender’s circumstances
that makes him less blameworthy for the crime he committed. A court may choose to treat such an offender more leniently but
it should not be mandated to do so.
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This paper explores the under-researched topic of young people’s attitudes towards police in two studies using structural
equation modelling. The first study examines the influence of police legitimacy on the willingness of young people to assist
police. The second study examines the impact of informal contact with police during a community policing project on young
people’s willingness to assist police. Findings show that young people who view police as legitimate are more willing to assist
police. Participation in the community policing project had a significant and positive influence on young people’s willingness
to assist police independent of young people’s attitudes about police legitimacy.
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This article provides the background to an international project on use of force by the police that was carried out in seven
countries. Force is often considered to be the defining characteristic of policing and much research has been conducted on
the determinants, prevalence and control of the use of force, particularly in the United States. However, little work has
looked at police officers’ own views on the use of force, in particular the way in which they justify it. Using a hypothetical
encounter developed for this project, researchers in each country conducted focus groups with police officers in which they
were encouraged to talk about the use of force. The results show interesting similarities and differences across countries
and demonstrate the value of using this kind of research focus and methodology.
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There is something intuitively correct about singling out emergency workers for legal protection, and for criminalizing not
just assault, but obstruction. Moreover, at least one sophisticated theory of right and wrong – Scanlon’s—indicates some deep
reasons for endorsing these intuitions. After applying Scanlon’s theory in the relevant way, I want to argue that the same
grounds it provides for recent Scottish legislation and UK sentencing guidelines can also be given for punishing more seriously
offences that current English law trivialises.
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Official and victimisation data show that despite falling rates for motor vehicle thefts, much of the EU ‘organized crime’
related thefts have remained almost stable. Nevertheless, the car-theft market in the EU has changed, and so has the role
of traditional destinations for stolen vehicles, such as Eastern Europe. The paper examines the demand, supply, and regulation
factors that shape the structures of the vehicle theft market in Bulgaria, and smuggling patterns and offender behaviour in
source countries, in particular Spain. We argue that such nuanced historical approach that takes into account a wider range
of factors in destination countries can help explain the recent transformations in Europe’s vehicle-theft markets.
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Seventy-five psychiatric inpatients were evaluated with respect to their Miranda-related abilities using Grisso’s (1998, Instruments for assessing understanding and appreciation of Miranda rights. Sarasota, FL: Professional Resource Press) instruments and Goldstein’s (2002, Revised instruments for assessing understanding and appreciation of Miranda rights) revision to determine: whether different versions of Miranda warnings translate into differences in understanding; the influence
of psychiatric symptoms, diagnostic categories, and IQ upon Miranda comprehension; and the relative performance of persons
with psychiatric impairment on Miranda-relevant abilities. Results indicated that although the Miranda language used in Goldstein’s
revision generally showed lower grade reading levels and higher reading ease scores than Grisso’s original instruments, this
did not translate into improved understanding. In addition, psychiatric symptoms were negatively correlated with Miranda comprehension,
even after controlling for IQ. Finally, results revealed that psychiatric patients’ understanding and appreciation was substantially
impaired compared to Grisso’s adult validation samples, and was roughly comparable to Grisso’s juvenile validation sample.
Implications of these results for policy reform are discussed.
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This study examines the determinants of turnover intentions of off farm migrant workers, using data collected from China’s
Jiangsu Province. Turnover intention is posited to be a function of demographic/human capital characteristics, job characteristics
and job satisfaction. We find that higher levels of education have a positive effect on reported turnover intentions, while
higher income and job satisfaction have a negative effect on turnover intentions. To the extent turnover intentions represent
a good proxy for actual turnover, the results can be viewed as providing reliable predictors of job mobility among off farm
migrant workers at a time when there is a growing shortage of such workers in China’s coastal provinces.
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