Browsing by Subject "crime"

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    • Behavioral Genetics and Crime, In Context 
      Jones, Owen D. (Law and Contemporary Problems, 2006)
      This Article provides an introduction to some of the key issues at the intersection of behavioral genetics and crime. It provides, among other things, an overview of the emerging points of consensus, scientifically, on ...
    • Democratization Under Assault: Criminal Violence in Post-Transition Central America 
      Cruz, Jose Miguel (2010-08-05)
      Department: Political Science
      This research project aims to answer the question as to why some new democracies develop astronomically high levels of criminal violence, whereas in others, violence is far more limited. This inquiry is related to a more ...
    • Essays in Applied Microeconomics 
      Niekamp, Paul S. (2019-07-17)
      Department: Economics
      Improving population health, educating adolescents, and reducing crime rates are all goals that economists and policy makers share. To practice evidence-based decision making, policy makers must be informed about how ...
    • Intuitions of Punishment 
      Jones, Owen D.; Kurzban, Robert (University of Chicago Law Review, 2010)
      Recent work reveals, contrary to wide-spread assumptions, remarkably high levels of agreement about how to rank order, by blameworthiness, wrongs that involve physical harms, takings of property, or deception in exchanges. ...
    • Parsing the Behavioral and Brain Mechanisms of Third-Party Punishment 
      Jones, Owen D.; Ginther, Matthew R.; Bonnie, Richard J.; Hoffman, Morris B.; Shen, Francis X.; Simons, Kenneth W.; Marois, Rene (The Journal of Neuroscience, 2016)
      The evolved capacity for third-party punishment is considered crucial to the emergence and maintenance of elaborate human social organization and is central to the modern provision of fairness and justice within society. ...
    • Predictors of Criminal Charges for Youth in Public Mental Health Services During the Transition to Adulthood 
      Pullmann, Michael David (2009-07-29)
      Department: Human and Organizational Development
      This dissertation is a collection of three studies examining the overlap between mental health services and being charged with a crime during the time of transition to adulthood from 16 to 25 years of age. The first study ...
    • Taking the Law into Our Hands: Trust, Social Capital and Vigilante Justice 
      Zizumbo Colunga, Daniel (2015-11-24)
      Department: Political Science
      Under what circumstances do citizens turn to their neighbors to confront criminals directly? I propose that social capital and distrust in authorities interact to increase the probability that citizens will attempt to ...