Victims who express less emotion in response to a crime are perceived as less deserving, less sympathetic, and they have less punishment assigned to the offender who committed the crime. This study considers the extent to which emotion norms underlie perceptions of victims who testify. Two studies investigate the circumstances in which emotional reactions to a crime are seen as "unusual" and wh...

Çocuklar bakımından uzlaştırma, günümüzde gerek dünyada Türkiye’de gittikçe öne çıkan bir ceza ve muhakemesi hukuku kurumudur. Bu bağlamda, anılan kurum kapsamına giren suç tiplerinin giderek çeşitlendiği zaman içinde daha ciddi suçların bu kapsamda ele alındığı görülmektedir. Buna bağlı olarak da, çocuklar uzlaştırmaya tâbi olan dosyaların sayısı hızla artmakta uzlaştırma kurumu, adalet sistem...

This article provides an empirical synthesis of the existing literature on the effectiveness of restorative justice practices using meta-analytic techniques. The data were aggregated from studies that compared restorative justice programs to traditional nonrestorative approaches to criminal behavior. Victim and offender satisfaction, restitution compliance, and recidivism were selected as appro...

objective: the forgivingness questionnaire has been designed to assessforgivingness in a variety of cultural contexts. this questionnaire was based on common western conceptualizations of forgiveness. in western communities, when one is the victim of an intentional offense, a feeling of resentment seems logical. the intensity and duration of this feeling of resentment usually depends on the cir...

The presumed dangers presented by sex offenders who have absconded from authorities have played a prominent role in public discourse surrounding state and federal sex offender management policy. The current study is the first to empirically investigate the characteristics of absconded sex offenders and explore how this group compares to other groups of sex offenders. Utilizing data from the Flo...

Disclosure rates among pre-school age victims of alleged sexual abuse were related to the type of investigative interview (forensic evaluation or forensic interview) that they received following a report of abuse. Variables expected to affect the likelihood of the child making a valid disclosure of sexual abuse including the relationship of the child to the offender and the severity of the abus...

For this study, information on Who Bullies Who was collected from 54 school classes with 918 children (M age = 11) and 13,606 dyadic relations. Bullying and victimization were viewed separately from the point of view of the bully and the victim. The two perspectives were highly complementary. The probability of a bully-victim relationship was higher if the bully was more dominant than the victi...