Institute of Criminology
About this community
Collections in this community
Recent Submissions
-
Ethnographic perspectives on youth justice supervision and the supervisory relationship
(2020-07-21)The supervisory relationship is said to be the key territory in which children draw meaning and benefit from their community supervision experience within the youth justice system. Yet the intricacies of the supervisory ... -
Low Heart Rate and Crime: Exploring the Link From an Analytical Perspective
(2020-10-24)Although low resting heart rate is often cited as “the best-replicated biological correlate” of antisocial behaviour, this association remains unexplained. Several theoretical explanations have been proposed throughout the ... -
Legitimacy of the Maltese Financial Services Regulator
This dissertation sought to investigate two interrelated issues: first, to explore the ‘basic legitimation demands’ of operators in the Maltese financial services sector; second, and arising from the first, to explore the ... -
Transitions out of crime: intentions, changes and obstacles on the road towards desistance
(2020-01-25)Desistance from crime is not just the cessation of criminal activity itself, but a process of acquiring roles, identities, and virtues; of developing new social ties, and of inhabiting new spaces. Such a framing of desistance ...
