Character Development and Criminology

Psychiatry and Criminology

Computational Criminology

In this report, we present our work done in spring 2011 on the UK crimes dataset. This dataset was first released in December 2010, and contains reports of crimes committed in England and Wales, with their type and location. We first perform some exploratory analysis on this data, by looking at the correlation of crime rates with some independent variables, such as the population density or the...

African Journal of Law and Criminology

This paper examined and discussed the sundry controv the nature, sources and interpretations of Islamic law. The study was engendered by the fact that differences in views and attitudes to these variables have contributed in no mean way to political and religious unrests in many parts of t Middle East where Islam has much stronghold. This paper considered it expedient to engage in the study so ...

Development and evolution of character displacement.

Character displacement occurs when competition for either resources or successful reproduction imposes divergent selection on interacting species, causing divergence in traits associated with resource use or reproduction. Here, we describe how character displacement can be mediated either by genetically canalized changes (i.e., changes that reflect allelic or genotype frequency changes) or by p...

A Critique of “Moral and Character Development”

A critique was made in this essay about William G. Huitt’s (2004)article titled “Moral and Character Development”. The strong points of his article were discussed with his conclusion that social and cultural values influence the formation of children’s character traits, while school should play its own role as a sub-social unit to develop their characters and morality based on the cognitive, af...