Eldercide is an increasing category of homicide affecting members of one of society’s most vulnerable populations. Despite attention from health officials, policy makers, researchers, the public, and the criminal justice system, there remains a dearth of knowledge about the phenomenon. Examination of extant empirical works reveals overreliance on small localized subsamples drawn frequently from...

OBJECTIVES The aim of the study was to describe characteristics of reported sexual assaults against adolescents and adults in Greenland society. STUDY DESIGN A retrospective review of police files. METHODS Data about victims and alleged offenders were extracted from all available police files concerning reported rapes and attempted rapes in 2002 of persons 12 years and older in all of Green...

In this paper we present a non-invasive ambient intelligence framework for the semi-automatic analysis of nonverbal communication applied to the restorative justice field. In particular, we propose the use of computer vision and social signal processing technologies in real scenarios of Victim-Offender Mediations, applying feature extraction techniques to multi-modal audio-RGB-depth data. We co...

Third-party altruistic decision-making has been shown to be modulated by other-regarding attention (e.g., focusing on the offender's crime or the victim's situation especially in judicial judgment). However, the neural mechanisms underlying this modulation remain poorly understood. In this fMRI study, participants voluntarily decided if they wanted to punish the first-party offender or help the...

As rape remains one of the most underreported and least likely to be cleared of the violent crimes, it is of paramount importance to understand the factors associated with the likelihood of a case being cleared by law enforcement. This study uses data from the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) and the Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS), and a multile...

The purpose of this dissertation research is to analyze criminal justice offender outcomes from child sexual abuse (GSA) cases interviewed by the Children's Advocacy Services of Greater St. Louis (CASGSL). The study includes 203 child sexual abuse cases referred to the CASGSL for forensic interviews from the County of St. Louis, MO, from 2003-2003. The overarching research purpose is to determi...

This research attempts to elaborate a routine activity model of violent victimization by incorporating an explicit rational choice perspective on potential targets’ decision making to avoid violent encounters. We propose that the costs associated with a violent attack and the probability of offender retaliation depend on whether the offender’s targeting strategy is opportunistic or deliberate—a...