MINI-CONFERENCE OF EMPIRICAL CRIMINAL LAW EMPIRICAL RESEARCH ON SENTENCING 20 to 22 January 2027, Prague, Faculty of Law Introduction This mini-conference brings together two networks of scholars: Emp...

The problem of urban crime in most developing regions has increased, and spatial configurations tend to be consistent with social and environmental dy…

The divide between individual (bad apples) and structural (bad barrels) explanations runs deep through corruption research. This divide is bridged when individual corruption propensities and corrup...

Purpose To test how the public perceives the seriousness of types of police misconduct, what they think the appropriate punishments are, and whether they view police misconduct as worse than similar…

Purpose To inform community theories of informal social control, we test the circumstances under which private citizens can be effective in deterring would-be offenders and identifying characteristics...

Situational action theory’s perception-choice process explains how individual traits and setting characteristics interact to produce criminal behavior. Specifically, it identifies the cognitive mec...

Concerns about how punitive attitudes are measured are long-standing in the academic literature. However, empirical research in this area has often ov…

The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality, Second edition is about research design, specifically concerning research that uses observational data to make a causal inference. It is s...

Background This paper takes on ‘Farrington's challenge’ ‘to bridge the gap between risk factor research and more complex explanatory theories’ by offering an explanation for the unexplained statisti.....

Some psychologists are confused about this

Objective Legal scholars suspect that judges choose longer prison terms when they are going to suspend the sentence. This study examines this so-called sentence inflation in a controlled condition, ho...

In praise of theoretical psychology

Research shows that people who commit federal white-collar offenses come from a different social and demographic background than people who commit other federal offenses. White-collar offenders are...