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Category: Crime – General

Amirault, J., & Bouchard, M. (2015). A group-based recidivist sentencing premium? The role of context and cohort effects in the sentencing of terrorist offenders. International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice, 43(4), 512-534.

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 |  Categories: Academic papers, Crime - General, Crime - General

Despite recent interest in terrorism little is known about the sentencing of terrorist offenders, and the impact of cohort effects on the sentencing patterns of offenders over the course of a terrorist campaign remains virtually unexplored. The ‘recidivist sentencing premium’ states that offenders who continually engage in criminal activities should be sanctioned more harshly as…

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Bouchard, M., Joffres, K., Frank, R. (2014). Preliminary analytical considerations in designing a terrorism and extremism online network extractor. Pp. 171-184 in V. Mago and V. Dabbaghian, and (Eds), Computational Models of Complex Systems. New York: Springer.

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 |  Categories: Crime - General, Online Networks

It is now widely understood that extremists use the Internet in attempts to accomplish many of their objectives. In this chapter we present a web-crawler called the Terrorism and Extremism Network Extractor (TENE), designed to gather information about extremist activities on the Internet. In particular, this chapter will focus on how TENE may help differentiate…

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Descormiers, K., Bouchard, M., Corrado, R. (2011). Strain, social capital, and access to lucrative crime opportunities. International Journal of Child, Youth, and Family Studies, 2: 83-98.

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General strain theory (GST) posits that the experience of strains cause negative emotions that individuals try to alleviate through various strategies, including delinquency. GST predicts that the choice of delinquency as a coping solution will be more likely in certain conditions, including those where criminal opportunities are more abundant. The current study considers the role…

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Lussier, P., Bouchard, M., Beauregard, E. (2011). Patterns of criminal achievement in sexual offending: Unravelling the “successful sex offender”. Journal of Criminal Justice, 39, 433-444.

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The current study examines significant variations in criminal achievement across sex offenders. To examine the “successful” sex offender, the study proposes a concept of achievement in sexual offending defined as the ability to maximise the payoffs of a crime opportunity while minimizing the costs. The study is based on a sample of convicted adult male…

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Beauregard, E., Bouchard, M. (2010). Cleaning up your act: Forensic awareness as a detection avoidance strategy. Journal of Criminal Justice, 38, 1160-1166.

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Although rational choice researchers has investigated how offenders successfully commit certain crimes, there is a lack of research looking at the factors explaining the use – or not – of certain detection avoidance strategies. This study introduces the concept of “forensic awareness” as a detection avoidance strategy, and proposes to examine the effect of disinhibitors,…

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