Measuring Scientific Misconduct—Lessons from Criminology

Measuring Scientific Misconduct - Lessons from Criminology

This article draws on research traditions and insights from Criminology to elaborate on the problems associated with current practices of measuring scientific misconduct. Analyses of the number of retracted articles are shown to suffer from the fact that the distinct processes of misconduct, detection, punishment, and publication of a retraction notice, all contribute to the number of retractio...

Scientific Criminology Course Learning Outcomes for Unit III

1. Define and discuss criminology terms introduced in Unit III. 2. Recall theories of crime causation and their attempts to indicate and explain criminality. 3. Recall and explain the relationship between crime and genetics. 4. Identify and discuss external and internal factors that can influence criminality. 5. Differentiate between male and female criminality and its causes. 6. Recall how psy...

Computational Criminology

In this report, we present our work done in spring 2011 on the UK crimes dataset. This dataset was first released in December 2010, and contains reports of crimes committed in England and Wales, with their type and location. We first perform some exploratory analysis on this data, by looking at the correlation of crime rates with some independent variables, such as the population density or the...

financial corporate crime: from typology to criminology

corporations have a key role in economic development, growth of national security and financial competition. the key of power is in economy. so in the global village, the economic competition replaces military conflict. a new concept in criminal justice is corporate crime. these crimes as a kind of white collar crime are studied in light of critical criminology findings of this study shows that...

Psychiatry and Criminology