Theorizing criminal intent: a methodological account

Concocting Criminal Intent

Latent Classes of Criminal Intent Associated with Criminal Behaviour

Background: This study aimed to examine the number of latent classes of criminal intent that exist among prisoners and to look at the associations with recidivism, number of police arrests, type of offending (robbery, violent offences, murder, and multiple offences), and age. Participants and Procedure: Latent class analysis was used to identify homogeneous subgroups of prisoners based on their...

Framing Financial Markets: A Methodological Account

The way in which financial markets are framed depends on who is doing the framing, although there are reflexive interdependencies between these framings. The underlying argument of the paper is that the way in which financial markets are framed in theory should reflect the different framings in the economy, and that this may benefit from input from other disciplines. Mainstream economics frames...

Early Psychological Theorizing Regarding Criminal Behavior FREUD’S MODEL OF THE PSYCHE AND IMPLICATIONS FOR CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR

Detecting Criminal Intent with the Concealed Information Test

Lie detection procedures are typically aimed at determining whether a suspect is lying about a crime committed in the past. Recent threats of terrorism, however, have shifted attention away from solving old cases to preventing future crimes. In the experiment reported in this paper, we investigate whether a specific lie detection test, the Concealed Information Test, can be used to detect crimi...