20 Year Prison Study—Treatment Works: Crime Statistics
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The research provides the results of a correctional program over the course of 20 years. We are unaware of any criminological research beyond twin studies (research on the behavioral aspects of twins) […]
(Crime in America.Net, 21.03.2010)
Missbrauchsskandal: Bischof räumt bewusste Vertuschung ein
Erzbischof Robert Zollitsch hat die bewusste Vertuschung von Missbrauchsfällen in der Kirche zugegeben. Inzwischen häufen sich enttäuschte Reaktionen auf den Papstbrief.
(Zeit Online, 21.03.10)
NYRB series on prison rape
The prison population may be shrinking, see Hadar’s recent post, but it’s still pretty rough in there. Prison rape is one of those pesky moral disasters that somehow the penal system can’t quite manage to fix, although the New York Review of Books two-part essay by David Kaiser and Lovisa Stannow points out that some prison systems have nearly eliminated rape, while others, e.g. Texas, don’t appear to be trying very hard.
(PrawfsBlawg, 20.03.2010)
Rethinking Sex Offender Laws for Youth Texting
In Iowa, Jorge Canal is on the sex offenders registry because, at age 18, he was convicted of distributing obscene materials to a minor after he sent a picture of his penis by cellphone to a 14-year-old female friend who had requested it.
(New York Times, 20.03.2010)
Italienischer Staatsanwalt – „Mafia-Strukturen wie in Italien“
Die Mafia ist nicht nur in Italien aktiv. Nach Ansicht des italienischen Staatsanwalts Gratteri droht sie auch in Deutschland, alle Bereiche des öffentlichen Lebens zu durchdringen.
(FOCUS Online 20.03.2010)
The truth about drugs in prisons
Mandatory drug testing in jails is producing figures that hide the scale of the problem – and actually encourage harder drug use
(The Guardian, 19.03.2010)
Why Mass Incarceration Doesn’t Work
Yesterday, Matt reported that state prison populations have decreased for the first time in 38 years. So should opponents of mass incarceration uncork the champagne and cheer the news?
(Change.org’s Criminal Justice Blog, 19.03.2010)
Kritik an Genehmigung von Rocker-Pistole: „Großkalibrige Waffen gehören nicht zum Bürger“
Kriminalexperten kritisieren nach dem tödlichen Schuss eines „Hells Angels“-Rockers auf einen Polizisten die behördliche Genehmigung für die mutmaßliche Tatwaffe. Ein Verbot von Rockerbanden hält die Polizei nur mit erheblichem Aufwand für durchsetzbar.
(FAZ.NET, 19.03.2010)
Men Take More Risks When Pretty Women Are Around
Young men took more risks in front of attractive woman than in front of man.
(Livescience.com- Crime, 19.03.2010)
Erstmals seit 40 Jahren ist die Zahl der Gefängnisinsassen in den USA leicht gesunken
Betrachtet man allerdings alle Gefangenen, so ist 2009 die Zahl geringfügig weiter auf insgesamt fast 1,7 Millionen Menschen hinter Gittern gestiegen.
(Telepolis, 18.03.2010)
„Piracy“ sounds too sexy, say rightsholders
For years, we’ve heard complaints about using the term „piracy“ to describe the online copyright infringement—but most have come from Big Content’s critics.
(ars technica, 18.03.2010)
Extreme Sports and Sociology
Time AVPS returned to brass tacks and started blogging again about sociology. A few weeks ago your humble scribbler went along to a paper given by James Hardie-Bick on ‚Flow, Enjoyment and High Risk Autotelic Experiences‘. In everyday plain language, this was a presentation on the sociological understanding of skydiving.
(A Very Public Sociologist, 18.03.2010)
Christian Pfeiffer im Interview: „Eine Machotruppe“
Professor Christian Pfeiffer, Direktor des Kriminologischen Forschungsinstituts Niedersachsen, spricht im FR-Interview über die Gefahr, die von den Hells Angels ausgeht.
(Frankfurter Rundschau, 17.03.2010)
Should 11-Year-Olds Be Tried as Adults?
It’s a sad state of affairs when we argue that an 11-year-old is beyond hope. But that’s exactly what happened at a hearing in Pennsylvania on Friday, where prosecutors made the case that Jordan Brown — who allegedly shot and killed his father’s pregnant girlfriend when he was 11 — should be tried as an adult, and potentially sentenced to life in prison.
(Change.org’s Criminal Justice Blog, 17.03.2010)
Online Hate Sites Grow With Social Networks
Terrorists and racists are turning to online social networks and depending less on traditional Web sites, according to a new report on digital terror and hate speech.
(New York Times, 16.03.2010)
Tough-on-crime policies don’t work, study finds
OTTAWA–The federal Justice Department pays to help publicize leading criminal justice research that frequently discredits the Conservative government’s „tough-on-crime“ agenda.
(Centre of Criminology Library Blog, 16.03.2010)
Teens & Sexting
Pew has a report up as part of their Millennials coverage providing data on teens and sexting.
(Soc101, 15.03.2010)
Australian Institute of Criminology Makes Crime Data Accessible
The Australian Institute of Criminology has launched an online publication of the Australian Crime: Facts and Figures 2008 database. This first ever interactive publication uses Space-Time Research’s SuperVIEW software in this Government 2.0 version of the crime facts and figures.
(Space Time Research, 2010)
Marketing with White Female Vulnerability to Male Aggression
Jayna T. and V. sent in a number of commercials for home security systems. They point out that in all the commercials they’d seen (there are many, many, many more than what I have here), the intruders are men (White men, from what I can tell) and the person endangered is a White woman, either alone or with her daughter:
(Sociological Images, 19.03.2010)
„You can buy an alarm system for only 99$ or you and your young, innocent daughter can be assaulted in your own home.„