Asian Journal of Criminology最新文献

The Challenges of Comparative Criminology Research

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Asian Journal of Criminology Pub Date : 2025-02-24 DOI: 10.1007/s11417-025-09452-6

Jie Zhang, Pin Yu, Jianhong Liu

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Risk Factors for South Korean Male Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) Victims Only, Offenders Only, and Victim-Offenders

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Asian Journal of Criminology Pub Date : 2025-01-16 DOI: 10.1007/s11417-024-09450-0

Chunrye Kim, Haemi Won

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Offending-Victimization Overlap in Cyberbullying among Chinese Youths: Theories, Gender Differences, and Methodological Innovation

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Asian Journal of Criminology Pub Date : 2024-12-27 DOI: 10.1007/s11417-024-09449-7

Boyang Xu

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The Differential Mediating Effects of Informal and Formal Social Control on the Disorder-Fear Linkage in Rural and Urban Areas of South Korea

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Asian Journal of Criminology Pub Date : 2024-12-10 DOI: 10.1007/s11417-024-09448-8

Joon Tag Cho

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Triadization as a Rite of Passage: Conceptualizing the Links between Youth Gangs and Adult-Based Secret Societies in Singapore

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Asian Journal of Criminology Pub Date : 2024-11-26 DOI: 10.1007/s11417-024-09447-9

Narayanan Ganapathy, Rachyl Lim

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Age and the Distribution of Crime in Botswana, Africa: Comparisons with the USA, Taiwan, South Korea, Namibia, and HG Invariance Norm 非洲博茨瓦纳的年龄与犯罪分布：与美国、台湾、韩国、纳米比亚和 HG 不变规范的比较

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Asian Journal of Criminology Pub Date : 2024-11-11 DOI: 10.1007/s11417-024-09446-w

Darrell Steffensmeier, Jessie Slepicka, Tebogo Sebeelo, Jonathan Uhl

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Organizational Structure and Its Connection with the Justice Views of Police Officers 组织结构及其与警官正义观的联系

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Asian Journal of Criminology Pub Date : 2024-10-28 DOI: 10.1007/s11417-024-09445-x

Eric G. Lambert, Hanif Qureshi, Nancy L. Hogan, David White, James Frank

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Investigating the Moderators in the Relationship Between Righteous Anger and Support for Lynching 调查义愤与支持私刑之间关系的调节因素

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Asian Journal of Criminology Pub Date : 2024-10-24 DOI: 10.1007/s11417-024-09444-y

Muhammad Asif, Hina Fazal, Mussarat Sarfaraz, Ali Ab Ul Hassan

{"title":"Investigating the Moderators in the Relationship Between Righteous Anger and Support for Lynching","authors":"Muhammad Asif, Hina Fazal, Mussarat Sarfaraz, Ali Ab Ul Hassan","doi":"10.1007/s11417-024-09444-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11417-024-09444-y","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Lynching is an act of assault in which a mob executes punishment of a suspect through physically attacking and torturing the suspect without trial and following legal procedures. As such acts of violence pose a serious threat to justice, human rights, and the rule of law. A couple of recent studies have explored the significance of anger, police legitimacy, and political encouragement in relation to support for vigilantism. This study also corroborates with these earlier findings. However, in addition, it contributes in finding moderating effect of police lawfulness in the relationship between righteous anger and support for lynching. A multistage random sampling procedure was employed to collect data from university students for the cross-sectional survey. Our moderation analysis shows that righteous anger, police lawfulness, and political encouragement significantly affect support for lynching. However, contrary to previous findings, trait anger does not affect such support. Moreover, only the moderating effect of police lawfulness turns out to be significant. Thus, our findings suggest that in order to prevent and reduce support for lynching, police need to be lawful and incorrupt, and religious-political leaders also need to be cooperative in de-escalating acts of lynching.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45526,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Criminology","volume":"19 4","pages":"573 - 592"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142691962","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Translational and Transnational Approaches in Comparative Criminological Research: A Content Analysis Focused on Asian Countries 比较犯罪学研究中的转化和跨国方法：以亚洲国家为重点的内容分析

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Asian Journal of Criminology Pub Date : 2024-10-22 DOI: 10.1007/s11417-024-09443-z

Bitna Kim, Sunhye Kang

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Assessing Police Stress in the Philippines during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Does Community Size Matter? 评估 COVID-19 大流行期间菲律宾警察的压力：社区规模是否重要？

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Asian Journal of Criminology Pub Date : 2024-10-17 DOI: 10.1007/s11417-024-09442-0

Marijana Kotlaja, Sanja Kutnjak Ivković, Vincent Liu, Alrien Francisco Dausan, Jon Maskály, Peter Neyroud

{"title":"Assessing Police Stress in the Philippines during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Does Community Size Matter?","authors":"Marijana Kotlaja, Sanja Kutnjak Ivković, Vincent Liu, Alrien Francisco Dausan, Jon Maskály, Peter Neyroud","doi":"10.1007/s11417-024-09442-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11417-024-09442-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study explores officers’ lived experiences during the pandemic across urban, suburban, and rural settings in the Philippines. It focuses on how the size of the community, personal stress generators, personal stress alleviators, and organizational stress alleviators relate to police officer stress. Our analyses of the answers provided by 5,752 police officers from the Philippines, collected in 2022, reveal a substantial degree of homogeneity with which police officers’ concern for family, emotional exhaustion, and use of alcohol correlate with perceived increases in stress across urban, suburban, and rural contexts. Officers report being less stressed when they participate in more spare-time activities (i.e., spending time with family, using electronic devices, and getting enough sleep). Some organizational stress alleviators (e.g., the perceived organizational success in dealing with the challenges of the pandemic and providing personal protective equipment), only contribute to perceived decreases in stress in rural contexts.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45526,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Criminology","volume":"19 4","pages":"551 - 572"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142691833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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