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Aug 29, 2023Open Access
The police plays an important role in maintaining peace and security within the state. Yet, they are faced with numerous challenges that hinder them from performing their duties effectively. Informed by the Democratic theory of Policing and drawing on the narratives of fifteen participants using the purposive and convenient sampling techniques, the study investigated the challenges that hinder the police from effectively performing their duties. The findings revealed that challenges including in...
Feb 09, 2023Open Access
Crime is a serious social problem, which affects the improvement of the quality of life and the development of social economy. Under the background of the information age, how to effectively use the collected large amount of crime data to analyze and predict crime is particularly important. Data-mining can extract implicit, unknown and potentially valuable information from a large number of original data. This paper studies how to use data-mining to analyze the intelligence value behind massive ...
Oct 19, 2022Open Access
Ghana’s law prescribes juvenile incarceration centres as the destination for delinquent children not only to serve as punishment, but also to rehabilitate or correct and reintegrate them into society. This study examines the nature and state of rehabilitation centres; the programmes and treatment to which juveniles are subjected. Data from 41 detained juveniles in the Swedru Juvenile Correctional Centre and the Junior Juvenile Correction Centre, Osu, Accra, as well as key informant interview con...
Aug 27, 2021Open Access
This paper highlights the significance of crime mapping in Makurdi metropolis using GIS applications to enhance identification, mapping and presentation of crime patterns and trends. Attribute data were obtained from police incident files while the spatial data were gotten from field work. The distribution of crimes and the variation of crime occurrences within the 5 police divisions were assessed, with B Police Division recording the highest crime incidences. Also, crime hotspots in the area we...
Jan 06, 2021Open Access
This study was conducted to describe the existing safety and security measures of the top universities in Nueva Ecija, Philippines towards its combat to COVID-19 pandemic in terms of availability of facilities and equipment, personnel welfare. After identifying the prevailing measures of the universities, the researchers proposed an enhancement plan. The researchers used a descriptive design of methodology by using a questionnaire-checklist to scientifically describe the safety and security meas...
Sep 25, 2020Open Access
The polygraph-based Concealed Information Test (CIT) uses psychophysiological measures to determine whether there are crime-related information in suspects’ memory. This study explores the physiological indicators used in polygraph-based CIT and their effectiveness. Furthermore, we introduce the theoretical basis of physiological-based CIT. It is pointed out that further researches should thoroughly explore the different physiological responses and psychological process in the CIT paradigm and s...
Jun 30, 2020Open Access
This study investigated drug use, spirituality, intimacy and age as determinants of antisocial behaviour among youths. Participants were four hundred and sixty eight (468) youths comprising (328) males and (140) females. Their ages ranged between (9 - 25) years, with a mean age of 17 and standard deviation of 8.04. Cross sectional design was adopted. Four instruments were used for data collection: Antisocial Behaviour Scale, Simple Screening Instrument for Substance Abuse and Daily Spiritual Exp...
Mar 30, 2018Open Access
At present,
most famous criminologists believe that the future trend of criminology theory is
to construct the general
theory of crime by theoretical
verification and theoretical integration. On the basis of criticizing
the two construction methods separately, this study finds that in the future,？only the crime theory that general theory of crime of unlimited
approaching can be constructed. And it puts forward the construc ...
Feb 23, 2018Open Access
This
review of the 11 chapters in this overview of a “realistic” approach to
criminology, recommends this book as a text for use in graduate courses in
criminology, public policy and the sociology of deviance. We focus in particular
on chapters which advocate legal reforms on behalf of women forced to work in
prostitution, and which elaborate the approach of Critical Realism as a model
of soci ...
Dec 28, 2017Open Access
Paula
Jean Oberbroeckling, age 18, left her Cedar Rapids apartment on July 11, 1970,
and never returned. She supposedly left to run an errand but did not come back.
Her body was found along the banks of the Cedar River in late November 1970.
After 47 years, Paula’s family still does not know what happened to her between
the time she left her apartment and the time when her body was found. In 2 ...
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