The mission of policing is “to protect and serve,” but recent events suggest that many
Americans, and especially Black Americans, do not feel protected from the police …

Objectives This study investigates the effectiveness of immersive 360° video technology in
evoking and manipulating two emotions, anger, and sexual arousal, relevant to criminal …

Deterrence by punishment aims to prevent a crime; however, it is not always successful.
Restrictive deterrence explains the continuous criminal activities that occur despite …

During the emergence of the legal socialization field, the obligation to obey the law was
central in theoretical and empirical approaches. Scholars in the last 50 years often noted …

The governmental responses to the COVID-19 pandemic include concerns for both public
health and formal social control. Government leaders asked the public to help mitigate the …

Purpose Assess whether individual differences systematically influence perceptions of risk,
social costs, and rewards of engaging in crime. Methods The current study subjected …

Research summary Crackdowns are law enforcement strategies based on the principles of
deterrence theory, which stipulates that offenders are rational actors who will refrain from …

This article reviews approaches to the study of emotion in offender decision-making
research. It then draws together theoretical models from psychology and neuroscience to …

The integrative model of criminal choice proposes that cognitive and/or affective appraisals
partially mediate the personality-crime relationship. The current study tests the integrated …

In the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, governments enacted guidelines to mitigate
the spread of the coronavirus. Public defiance of these guidelines invoked instrumental …