Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice: Volume 5 Issue 1

Personality, belief in a just world, and attitudes toward criminal responsibility defenses: a preliminary study

Robyn Mooney

In Canada, if it can be proven that a defendant was suffering from a mental disorder at the time they committed an offense, they can be found Not Criminally Responsible on Account…

Cyber crime: a portrait of the landscape

Steven Furnell, Samantha Dowling

The purpose of this paper is to review current evidence in relation to scale and impacts of cyber crime, including various approaches to defining and measuring the problem.

The EMDR DeTUR protocol for the treatment of self-injury in a patient with severe personality disorder: a case report

Phyllis Annesley, Adedayo Alabi, Laura Longdon

The purpose of this paper is to describe the Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR) treatment of an adult female patient detained within a high secure hospital with…

Exploring hate crime amongst a cohort of Scottish prisoners: an exploratory study

Kirsty Penrice, Philip Birch, Stephan McAlpine

The purpose of this paper is to explore the motives a person adopts in order to engage in hate-related behaviours within a prison setting. A subsidiary aim of the study was to…

Police legitimacy: perspectives of migrants and non-migrants in Australia

Allegra Clare Schermuly, Helen Forbes-Mewett

This paper is drawn from a larger study investigating community perceptions of police legitimacy in the Monash Local Government Area (LGA), in the Australian state of Victoria…