Correctional Patients Exposed to Trauma: Describing Psychological and Offense Characteristics

There are two common contingencies that affect the extent to which the law coerces conduct: the jurisdiction and the offense. The jurisdiction in which crime is committed or contemplated reflects the nature of the legal threat (e.g., its certainty and severity), while the offense reflects behavior-specific barriers to effective legal threats. This paper reports a comparison of deterrent effects in two jurisdictions with widely differing penalties for marijuana use. The results indicate that both jurisdictional and offense characteristics are important, and that legal mechanisms were more important in that jurisdiction that had the least severe penalty for marijuana use, thereby suggesting that enforcement patterns were more important than the severity of the penalty. Moreover, extralegal controls were important mechanisms of social control in each jurisdiction.

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Self-reported hostility as a function of offense characteristics and response style in a sexual offender population.

Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology ◽

10.1037/0022-006x.57.2.306 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 57 (2) ◽

pp. 306-308 ◽

Cited By ~ 25

Author(s):

Gordon C. Nagayama Hall

Keyword(s):

Sexual Offender ◽

Response Style ◽

Offense Characteristics

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Offense Characteristics and Considerations for Removal from the North Carolina Public Sex Offender Registry

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e669802012-547 ◽

2012 ◽

Author(s):

Christina Foster ◽

Melisa Glatte ◽

Alvin Malesky

Keyword(s):

North Carolina ◽

Sex Offender ◽

Sex Offender Registry ◽

Public Sex ◽

The North ◽

Offense Characteristics

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Sources of Conflict: A Comparative Synthesis of American and Korean Parricides

European Journal of Korean Studies ◽

10.33526/ejks.20201902.195 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 195-224

Author(s):

Phillip Shon

Keyword(s):

Mental Illness ◽

South Korea ◽

Life Course ◽

Life Stages ◽

Abused Children ◽

Adult Sons ◽

Similarities And Differences ◽

The Life Course ◽

Offense Characteristics

Despite the nominative classification of parricides based on the victim–offender relationship, parricide bears the offense characteristics of many crimes. In prior works, the killing of parents has been framed as a violent reaction of severely abused children against their tormentors, or as the identity demarcating actions of adult sons suffering from mental illness. Aside from these two primary discourses, the reasons parents and their offspring become mired in conflicts across various life stages of both participants have been neglected from the literature. A more recent theoretical framework examines parricides and their sources of conflict across the life course of the victims and offenders. This paper synthesizes the sources of conflict in parricides in nineteen-century America and twentiethcentury South Korea by comparing the similarities and differences in offense characteristics. I argue that parricides in the two countries can be differentiated based on the differences in history and culture.

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