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The psychology of criminal and violent behaviour
\"The Psychology of Criminal Behaviour is a thrilling and comprehensive introduction to the psychological theories of criminality and violence. It examines how psychology and biology both play a role in understanding what may lead individuals to commit crime. Theoretical in approach, The Psychology of Criminal Behaviour ensures that material is presented in a way that meets the needs of both psychology and criminology students. The text includes exciting case studies and research boxes, chapter introductions and summaries, a marginal glossary, and thoughtful review questions to enhance student understanding and engagement. From genetic influences to developmental theories, serial killers to stalkers, the text applies relevant research and real-world examples, creating an exciting and inclusive introduction to the field.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Benford’s Law: Textbook Exercises and Multiple-Choice Testbanks
Benford's Law describes the finding that the distribution of leading (or leftmost) digits of innumerable datasets follows a well-defined logarithmic trend, rather than an intuitive uniformity. In practice this means that the most common leading digit is 1, with an expected frequency of 30.1%, and the least common is 9, with an expected frequency of 4.6%. Currently, the most common application of Benford's Law is in detecting number invention and tampering such as found in accounting-, tax-, and voter-fraud. We demonstrate that answers to end-of-chapter exercises in physics and chemistry textbooks conform to Benford's Law. Subsequently, we investigate whether this fact can be used to gain advantage over random guessing in multiple-choice tests, and find that while testbank answers in introductory physics closely conform to Benford's Law, the testbank is nonetheless secure against such a Benford's attack for banal reasons.
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Updating the Study of Punishment
Meares et al. review some basic themes that a useful casebook on criminal law should cover. They sketch four areas in which interdisciplinary approaches to thinking about the purposes punishment can and should be incorporated into teaching criminal law. Notably, each case emphasizes nonretributivist approaches to punishment, which they believe have gotten short shrift in criminal law textbooks published most recently.
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Introduction to forensic psychology : issues and controversies in crime and justice
Introduction to Forensic Psychology, Second Edition is an original approach to understanding how psychologists impact the research, practice, and policy of crime, law, and justice. Divided into four sections on criminal forensics, civil forensics, policing and law enforcement, and corrections and prison practices, the text examines police, court, and correctional aspects of forensic psychology. Each of the twelve chapters are organized around relevant case illustrations, include comprehensive literature reviews, and discuss policy implications and avenues of future research. Each chapter additionally incorporates research on race, gender, and class, as well as including a practice update, highlighting a timely issue or controversy.The text thoughtfully explores a wide range of adult, juvenile, family, and community themes of interest to students, practitioners, and administrators. New to the Second Edition is a chapter on international criminal forensic psychology, and sections on assessing psychiatric work-related disability, termination of parental rights, counseling prison populations, malingering, crisis intervention in prisons/jails, and child custody evaluations. Suitable as a primary text for courses on psychology and criminal justice, the book may also serve as a reference tool for practicing forensic psychologists. *Provides an integrative approach provides a more comprehensive understanding of the relevant material* Focus on police, court and corrections introduces students to how psychologists are important to the criminal justice system* Presents \"cutting edge\" issues that prepares students to interpret those issues at the forefront of the field* Presents a breadth of material accessible to students from which they can consider more intelligently their own career options* Case illustrations throughout points to the practical need to understand the material* Incorporates over 35% new material
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Sex, politics and empire
Thie books investigates controversies surrounding prostitution, homosexuality and the age of consent in the British Empire, and draws conclusions about the importance of sex as a nexus of imperial power relations. It will be of particular interest to academics and students in Geography, History, Postcolonial Criticism and Gender/Sexuality Studies.
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Stories About Child Sexual Abuse: Textual Analysis of Instruction Manuals in Israel
This paper overviews the socio-historical background underlying the construction of child abuse as a public issue in Israel, and analyzes one cultural product of this process—textbooks and manuals on child sexual abuse prevention. Analysis of the Israeli narratives reveals that they mimic American counterparts and address an ideal Jewish middle-class, ignoring other societal sectors. The narratives individualize and medicalize both victim and abuser. Focusing on stereotyped techniques for the individual’s survival and recovery, they avoid discussion of broader social and political power relations.
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\Sit-Still and Shut-Up\: The Construction of Childhood and Classroom Management Pedagogies in a Preservice Education Textbook
This study addresses the limitations and restrictions of approaches to classroom management that are promoted in one particular textbook that is used in Teacher Education faculties in Canada. It contributes to building an understanding of the role of textbooks in endorsing certain truth and knowledge claims about childhood and classroom management. The thesis is informed theoretically by Foucault (1977-1982), Gee (2001) and poststructuralists such as Weedon (1999). Through undertaking a discourse analysis informed by the work of Gee and Foucault, I conduct a single case study of one particular textbook to highlight the particular role of educational psychology as ‘a regime of truth’ in defining and legitimating what is to count as an effective approach to classroom management. My own autoethnographic accounts as a classroom teacher are also used and weaved throughout the analysis and serve to challenge the normative claims about classroom management made in the textbook. The implications of introducing preservice education students to only one ‘regime of truth’ concerning classroom management in terms of elaborating more socially just pedagogies are outlined. I recommend increasing access to discourse of classroom management, specifically pedagogy that position the child as ‘political agent’ with voice and potential to contribute to the management of their own education. This thesis is a part of a larger attempt to achieve equity and social justice education in which the dignities of children are respected and their voices are heard.
Dissertation
Reclaiming Deviance as a Unique Course from Criminology Re-Revisited: Entering Delinquency into the Equation
Some sociologists have wrestled with the problem of teaching distinct criminology and deviance courses in the same academic department (see, e.g., Bader, Becker, and Desmond 1996; Kunkel 1999). Serious issues arise in course development, including course content similarity, theoretical overlap, and reading and writing assignment redundancy. What if we must teach delinquency in addition to criminology and deviance? Sociology majors interested in crime and deviance are likely to take more than one of these sociology courses, and non-majors often take these courses as electives. In this paper, I offer ideas for developing distinct deviance, delinquency, and criminology courses, and discuss how to reduce theoretical and other content overlap, paper assignments, course readings, and departmental issues.
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