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Research on moral disengagement associated with adult criminal profiles is recent a recent issue and, therefore, has been less evaluated. This meta-analytic study aims to determine the strength of the relationship between moral disengagement and crime in the adult prison population. The results showed a moderate relationship between moral disengagement and crime, with an effect size of r =.26 (p <.001). The analysis of moderating variables (i.e., type of offence, gender, age, and instrument measuring moral disengagement) do not show statistically significant results in this association. Finally, it is concluded that moral disengagement is a risk factor for criminal behaviour commission, and future lines of research are proposed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this work we review the cybercrime of grooming, its description and the studies that from the Forensic Linguistics perspective contribute to identify groomers who hide their identity in the network to carry out criminal actions of sexual abuse to minors. Data on the prevalence of grooming are provided but also information on the cognitive and criminal profiles of this kind of cybersex offender and how this crime is categorized in the Spanish Criminal Code. Finally, the studies carried out in different countries from an exclusively linguistic viewpoint are provided, likewise the deficiencies in type of studies on this cybercrime in the Spanish context are outlined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The use of criminological profiling technique as a tool for criminal investigation in recent years has been subjected to revision as to its scientific basis, rigorous applicability and functionality for the law enforcement apparatus. In consequence, this investigation made its principal objective to provide recent information about the main concepts of criminal profiling, its utility and the critiques it has received in Colombia. Content analysis was performed on 34 documents related to criminological profiling, corresponding to academic productions during the years of 1998 and 2012 in Bogotá by five universities, the National Penitentiary School and the School of Criminal Investigation of the National Police, in which training in legal psychology and criminal investigation is taught. The findings and conclusions of this document review indicate that, a) criminal profiling use as a technique in criminal investigation has been limited; b) its main use has been with the purpose to understand the acts of those people that commit crimes, c) most of the knowledge in criminal profiling originates in academia (universities), especially in the area of legal psychology, analyzing and making conceptual constructions without many ways of application of the technique in criminal activities, d) it is necessary to use this technique more frequently within the judicial and academic context of the Colombian capital. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Intimate partner homicide, considered a social problem, has not been analyzed in Spain in relation to crime scene (CS). The present research addresses the type of violence commited, expressive vs. instrumental, in CS of murders, homicides or attempts and their differences on the basis of the sex of the murderer. Based on a sample of 322 cases extracted from firm judicial rulings by the Violent Crime Analysis Protocol in Family Homicides, forensic awareness, structuring, and criminal behavior were analyzed. The results support previous studies carried out in other countries showing the predominance of expressive behaviors in homicides between members of the couple without any significant differences depending on the offender's gender, even though there is a greater use of the behaviors of stabbing and poisoning in women murderers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this article was to explore delinquency from the register of psychopathy, in order to clarify its status regarding the clinical structures theory. The starting point was the disagreement of lacanian psychoanalysis with the dominant explanation in psy-sciences, who apprehend the criminal act by reference to criminal personality profiling. The reach of this reflection describes the specificity of psychoanalytical contribution at the interface of psychopathology and criminology. To this end, a genealogical-theoretical argumentation was made. As a result, it is established that the psychoanalytic essays for developing nosographic personality-based categories have arrived at solutions whose heuristic scope is merely descriptive of the individual's psychic surface. So, it is concluded the convenience of continuing the rationale foundation of the clinical structures theory, in order to give an account of subject's uncon-scious bet in the criminal act. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The onset of the delinquent career takes place at early ages. Thus, adolescence is a key period for the implementation of preventive and re-educational programs for antisocial and delinquent behaviors. The literature has shown that biological, psychological, and social variables may serve as risk factors for antisocial and delinquent behavior. In this context, in a field study, 84 adolescents –42 juvenile offenders that were serving detention measures and 42 equivalent youngsters from the normal population– were compared in four main psychological risk factors: self-concept, socialization, coping, and emotional intelligence. The results reported that juvenile offenders had problems in socialization, deficits on emotional intelligence, and tended to employ non-productive coping strategies. The findings are discussed in terms of prevention and treatment planning for antisocial and delinquent behavior in juvenile offenders. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The criminal profiling, understood as the process of inferring identifying offender features by analyzing evidences from the crime scene, has been criticized for its doubtful scientific nature, along with its lack of theoretical and empirical support. However, at present a model has emerged that works on the professionalization of the analysis of criminal behavior in police forces, through a rigorous application of the psychological knowledge to the criminal investigation. This line of working, initiated by Canter, involves the multivariate statistical application to solved criminal acts, thereby creating typologies (inductive profiling). Thus, it is possible to see if there are types of people most likely to commit certain sort of events. In this paper, a two-stage cluster analysis is used in a sample of 117 fires occurred in 2011. The results show five types of fire profiles. This model would show consistence with the results of previous years, and it is easily interpretable by police officers so that it could be used to new fires when the identity of perpetrators is unknown. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present study examined the recidivism predictive validity of an at risk and resources instrument for young offenders (FER-R) along a two-year span (2009-2011). This instrument has 60 items and it allows the recording of behavior in 10 different domains, grouped in three indices: criminogenic risk, resources, and an index of escalating crime rate. The sample consisted of 101 male young offenders (14 and 19 years), sent over to take part on free medium intervention programs. The main results showed that the overall predictive coefficient of the FER-R was a 68.3% correct, with an area under the curve, AUCs = 0.73, indicating a predictive capacity moderate to strong of recidivism of the instrument for Chilean juvenile offenders. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Domiciliary prison is an alternative for those inmates that having paid a fraction of their effective time term in prison are considered eligible to finish it off at their own homes. In the Federal District, Brazil, this process of social insertion is hindered by highly vulnerable conditions —social, spatial, individual and institutional— of this population. In order to reach a more in-depth knowledge of these questions, we interviewed, through a semi-structured format, 175 former inmates enjoying the aforementioned legal condition. We established that poor mental health, fueled by the consumption of alcohol and other drugs, aggravates the expected inequality of opportunities in education, health and decent employment suffered by this population, and hinder their social rehabilitation, increasing all along the probability of returning to a life of crime. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This study compared perceived social support in two groups of 14 to 18 years old male adolescents, from the city of Linares (Chile), 53 law offenders and 53 non offenders. They were matched on several sociodemographic variables in order to equate both groups. The questionnare that was administered included questions about social network size, total support and four dimensions: emotional, advice, instrumental and reciprocity. Results showed significant differences between groups: non offenders showed a higher level of support network size, and higher levels on each dimension of support, and support perceived in the family, in comparison to law offenders. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sexual crime has a strong impact on victims. Since this sort of crime is systematically covered by the media, it gives rise to public alarm. In Spain, 5% of prisoners are sexual offenders. Some of them serve long sentences and eventually are given leaves or even open prison. In such events, it is crucial that the prediction of relapsing risk is accurate. In order to identify relevant risk factors a study was needed among Spanish samples of sexual offenders. The aim of this study was to identify and describe both the personal and criminal records of sexual offenders and to find out how these characteristics relate to the risk of relapse in the future .A big sample of sexual offenders who served prison sentences in Brians prison, Barcelona was assessed. Among the main characteristics there was an excessive alcohol and drug consumption, average records of criminal events lasting over six years, and an overall relapse, both in sexual and non-sexual crimes, of about 32.2%. Significant differences showed up between the group of persistent offenders and the non-relapsing group both in demographic variables (age at the time of leaving prison after serving their sentences, employment history, and steady relationship with partner), and criminal record variables (age at first sexual crime, number of sentenced crimes, consumption of alcohol and drugs, victim typology, etc.). Some of these variables could be predictors of future crimes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]