Essays about: "violent crime"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 61 essays containing the words violent crime.

1. 1. STEREOTYPICAL OR NON-STEREOTYPICAL? : WHICH HATE CRIMES ARE EASIER TO CATEGORIZE?

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för hälsa och samhälle (HS)

   Author : Maria Blem; Stephanie Kruuse av Verchou; [2023]
   Keywords : Expressions of hate motive; hate crimes; majority-on-minority cases; minority-on-minority cases; police reports; stereotyping; Hatbrott; majoritet-på-minoritet fall; minoritet-på-minoritet fall; stereotyper; uttryck av hatmotiv;

   Abstract : Hate crime is an umbrella concept where the motive is to violate an individual or group based on their ethnicity, skin color, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, or gender identity or expression. This study examined police reports from the year 2018, marked as hate crimes. READ MORE

3. 2. The Structural Brain Correlates of Psychopathy and Violent Crime

   University essay from Högskolan i Skövde/Institutionen för biovetenskap

   Author : Zaynab Abas Hashmi; Wilma Pettersson; [2023]
   Keywords : Psychopathy; Antisocial personality disorder; Violent crime; Magnetic resonance imaging;

   Abstract : Psychopathy is a frequently reported personality trait among violent offenders, and psychopaths have a higher rate of recidivism than inmates without psychopathic features. This systematic review aimed to investigate whether structural brain differences, measured with magnetic resonance imaging, are observed in violent offenders with psychopathy compared to violent offenders without psychopathy or healthy non-violent controls. READ MORE

4. 3. Incels views on crime : A study about how users on an incel forum justify their views on sexual and violent crime

   University essay from Mittuniversitetet/Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap

   Author : Elin Alexandroff; Maya Burman; [2023]
   Keywords : Incels; Attitudes; Crime; Violence; Techniques of Neutralization.; Incels; Attityder; Brott; Våld; Neutralisationstekniker.;

   Abstract : Through a netnographic qualitative research, an incel forum is analyzed in this study using a thematic analysis to investigate users on the incel forum and their views on sexual and violent crime. By using Sykes and Matza's (1957) techniques of neutralization, this study shows how the users on the forum may justify their positive views on violent and sexual crime. READ MORE

5. 4. The Islamic State’s Enslavement of the Yazidi Minority : An Inquiry into the Female Devotees’ Responsibility

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Kriminologiska institutionen

   Author : Mina Andersson Jenabpour; [2023]
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   Abstract : The notion of female devotees of the Islamic State (IS) as being naive and submissive companions of their fighting husbands has recently been defied by cases of active women participating in violent atrocities within the Caliphate in Iraq and Syria. Nevertheless, cases of more passive IS-women still exist. READ MORE

6. 5. Navigating Criminal Violence and Aid : Strategies to Negotiate Humantiarian Access in Guatemala

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

   Author : Anastasia Simes Martinez; [2023]
   Keywords : Negotiation Strategies; Humanitarian Access; Criminal Violence; Criminal Armed Groups; Guatemala;

   Abstract : Due to the high rates of criminal violence and the alternative authority of Criminal Armed Groups (CAGs) in Guatemala humanitarian access faces multiple barriers in regions under CAG control, often leaving vulnerable populations without necessary humanitarian services. With limited institutional and conceptual frameworks to support negotiating for humanitarian access in these criminally violent contexts the international humanitarian system favors avoiding these contexts altogether to minimize the risk of their operations, but with the trends of violence increasing in the region not addressing the issue of negotiating for humanitarian spaces in these contexts only will result in crises worsening. READ MORE