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23 September, 2022

Do Offenders Deserve Proportionate Punishments?

Criminal Law & Philosophy Abstract The aim of the paper is to investigate how retributivists should respond to the apparent tension between moral desert and proportionality in punishment. I argue th

Type of publication: Journal articles | Duus-Otterström, Göran
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08 September, 2022

Completed: Deterrence in violent extremism

Can violent extremism be countered with harsher punishments? This project aims to evaluate strategies within the criminal justice system to counter violent extremism.

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30 October, 2024

Cybercrime in Nordic countries: a scoping review on demographic, socioeconomic, and technological determinants

SN Social Sciences Abstract Knowledge of factors contributing to cybercrime threats is needed to plan effective prevention strategies to combat the increasingly common occurrence of cybercrime. This scon

Type of publication: Journal articles | Rostami, Amir , , Mojgan Padyab, Ali Padyab & Mehdi Ghazinour
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14 September, 2017

The Transition to Adulthood and the Ambivalence of Desistance

In: The Routledge International Handbook of Life-Course Criminology, eds. Arjan Blokland & Victor van der Geest, pp. 324—341. London: Routledge. The Routledge International Handbook of Life-Course

Type of publication: Chapters |
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26 February, 2018

Retributivism and Public Opinion: On the Context Sensitivity of Desert

Criminal Law and Philosophy, Volume 12, Issue 1, pp 125-142. Abstract Retributivism may seem wholly uninterested in the fit between penal policy and public opinion, but on one rendition of the theory, h

Type of publication: Journal articles | Duus-Otterström, Göran
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26 January, 2021

Weighing Absolute and Relative Proportionality in Punishment

in Tonry, M. (ed.) Of One-eyed and Toothless Miscreants: Making the Punishment Fit the Crime? Oxford: Oxford University Press. Abstract Conflicts between relative and absolute proportionality are an imp

Type of publication: Chapters | Duus-Otterström, Göran
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14 March, 2023
Lorne L. Dawson: Reconceptualizing Lone-Actor Terrorists as Solo Public Mass Murders

Lorne L. Dawson: Reconceptualizing Lone-Actor Terrorists as Solo Public Mass Murders

Lorne L. Dawson, Professor Emeritus, University of Waterloo, Canada. In public and expert judgements of whether an incident of mass violence by a lone actor is an instance of terrorism or simply mass m

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21 December, 2022

Lorne L. Dawson: Reconceptualizing Lone-Actor Terrorists as Solo Public Mass Murders. An Overview and Analysis of the Research

Seminar with Lorne L. Dawson, Professor Emeritus, University of Waterloo, Canada. Register here > Abstract In public and expert judgements of whether an incident of mass violence by a lone actor is an

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04 April, 2025

Is it possible to reduce the number of prisoners without increasing crime? Lessons from California

Venue: The Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13, Stockholm REGISTER > During Chesa Boudin's 2,5 years in office as San Francisco's elected district attorney, incarceration plummeted - the

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31 August, 2017

Organizing on two wheels. Uncovering the organizational patterns of Hells Angels in Sweden.

Trends in Organized Crime, pp 1–17, doi:10.1007/s12117-017-9310-y Abstract During the last decades, Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs (OMCs) have become a concern for crime prevention and law enforcement agencies

Type of publication: Journal articles | Mondani, Hernan , Rostami, Amir
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