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Scott Jacques

Director of Criminology Open and Professor at Georgia State
Interested in a lot of things, but especially increasing access to criminological outputs.
Atlanta, GA, USAwww.scottjacques.us0000-0002-2089-4078sjacques83https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=PVR6a7EAAAAJ&hl=en
All Pubs (174)Attributed Pubs (171)
in Community Criminology Open

Why and How Criminology Should Be Free

by Scott Jacques
Published: Mar 21, 2020
Digital Criminology

Annotate Wikipedia Articles

by Scott Jacques
Published: May 10, 2020
Digital Criminology

Syllabus - Digital Crime Problem

by Scott Jacques
Published: May 10, 2020
in Community Criminology Open

 How to Determine Copyright at Criminology Journals

by Scott Jacques
Published: May 04, 2020
Digital Criminology

Wikipedia Articles

by Scott Jacques
Published: May 10, 2020
Digital Criminology

Cybercrime Investigation - How to Write Case Briefs

by C. Jordan Howell
Published: Aug 18, 2020
in Community Criminology Open

Culture & Social Learning

by Scott Jacques and Andrea Allen
Published: Jan 03, 2023
in Community Criminology Open

Introduction to Criminological Theory

by Scott Jacques and Andrea Allen
Published: Jan 03, 2023
in Community Criminology Open

Deterrence & Rational Choice

by Scott Jacques and Andrea Allen
Published: Jan 04, 2023
in Community Criminology Open

Surveillance & Opportunity

by Scott Jacques
Published: Jan 04, 2023
in Community Criminology Open

Biology

by Scott Jacques and Andrea Allen
Published: Jan 04, 2023
in Community Criminology Open

Self-Control

by Scott Jacques and Andrea Allen
Published: Jan 04, 2023
in Community Criminology Open

Anomie & Strain 

by Scott Jacques and Andrea Allen
Published: Jan 04, 2023
in Community Criminology Open

Social Disorganization & Bond

by Scott Jacques and Andrea Allen
Published: Jan 04, 2023
in Community Criminology Open

Completing Activities and Assignments

by Andrea Allen and Scott Jacques
Published: Jan 03, 2023
in Community Criminology Open

Course Schedule - Criminology

by Andrea Allen and Scott Jacques
Published: Jan 03, 2023
Digital Criminology

Syllabus - Analog Crime Problem

by Scott Jacques
Published: May 22, 2020
Digital Criminology

Move & Delete: Grading & Submitting Assignments - Crime Problem

by Scott Jacques
Published: May 23, 2020
Digital Criminology

Not done: Cybercrime Data

by Scott Jacques
Published: May 23, 2020
Digital Criminology

Practice Page

by Scott Jacques
Published: May 21, 2020
Digital Criminology

Books - Analog Crime Problem

by Scott Jacques
Published: May 22, 2020
Digital Criminology

Start Here

by Scott Jacques
Published: May 22, 2020
Digital Criminology

GroupMe to SecondLife

by Scott Jacques
Published: May 24, 2020
Digital Criminology

Not done: Cybercrime Data

by Scott Jacques
Published: May 24, 2020
Digital Criminology

Not done: Syllabus - Cybercrime

by Scott Jacques
Published: Jun 19, 2020
in Community Journal of Qualitative Criminal Justice & Criminology

Application for the Editorship

by Scott Jacques
Published: May 28, 2020
Andrea Allen

Drug Market Violence: Virtual Anarchy, Police Pressure, Predation, and Retaliation

by Andrea Allen and Scott Jacques
Published: Jun 14, 2020
in Community Scott Jacques

Grey Area: Regulating Amsterdam's Coffeeshops

by Scott Jacques
Published: May 29, 2020
Coffeeshops are the most famous example of Dutch tolerance. Yet these cannabis distributors are highly regulated. Coffeeshops are permitted to break the law, but not the rules. On the premises, there cannot be minors, hard drugs, or more than 500 grams. Nor can a coffeeshop ...
in Community Scott Jacques

Drugs

by Scott Jacques
Published: May 29, 2020
This page is no longer maintained. Please ignore.
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Method

by Scott Jacques
Published: May 29, 2020
in Community Scott Jacques

Other

by Scott Jacques
Published: May 29, 2020
in Community Scott Jacques

Intimacy with Outlaws: The Role of Relational Distance in Recruiting, Paying, and Interviewing Underworld Research Participants

by Scott Jacques and Richard Wright
RW
Published: Feb 01, 2008
The past quarter century has witnessed the emergence of a substantial literature devoted to the mechanics of recruiting, paying, and interviewing currently-active offenders. Absent from that literature, however, is a theoretical framework within which to understand, test, ...
in Community Criminology Open

Your Personal Website Is a Legal Solution to Embargo Problems

by Scott Jacques
Published: Jul 02, 2020
in Community Scott Jacques

Apprehending Criminals: The Impact of Law on Offender-Based Research

by Scott Jacques and Richard Wright
RW
Published: Mar 11, 2011
The past quarter century has witnessed the emergence of a rich methodological literature devoted to various ways of tapping into the offender’s perspective on crime. Whatever its virtues, that literature has remained almost wholly atheoretical. We recently introduced a ...
in Community Scott Jacques

Foreign Fieldworkers and Native Participants: A Theory of Method

by Scott Jacques, Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard, and Jean-Louis van Gelder
ML
JG
Published: Dec 01, 2010
Foreign fieldwork often comes with vast cultural differences between the researcher and participants. Such differences have implications for the success and findings of research. In this paper, we draw on our experiences doing fieldwork abroad to propose a theory of method. ...
in Community Scott Jacques

Right or Wrong? Toward a Theory of IRB’s (Dis)Approval of Research

by Scott Jacques and Richard Wright
RW
Published: Mar 01, 2010
No one would disagree that scientific research has been unethical—even criminal—at times. Institutional review boards (IRBs) play a fundamental role in protecting people from unethical criminological research. At the same time, IRBs, as social entities, are subject to a wide ...
in Community Scott Jacques

Criminology as Social Control: Discriminatory Research and Its Role in the Reproduction of Social Inequalities

by Scott Jacques and Richard Wright
RW
Published: Feb 03, 2010
The law discriminates against low status offenders, but so too might criminologists during the course of their research. In this paper, we address the following question: Does the social status of lawbreakers have an effect on their likelihood of being recruited to ...
in Community Scott Jacques

Ironies of Crime, Control, and Criminology

by Scott Jacques and Richard Wright
RW
Published: May 11, 2011
Irony is a kind of communication in which shared knowledge about a particular context is formed as a counter-intuitive statement with hidden meaning. Irony is important because it branches the tree of knowledge and balances morality. This paper reviews the definition and ...
in Community Scott Jacques

Dangerous Intimacy: Toward a Theory of Violent Victimization in Active Offender Research

by Scott Jacques and Richard Wright
RW
Published: Dec 01, 2010
Active offender research contributes to criminology, but a major concern for active offender researchers is that they will be victimized in the course of their work. With that concern in mind, experienced criminologists have recommended strategies for minimizing danger during ...
in Community Scott Jacques

The Quantitative-Qualitative Divide in Criminology: A Theory of Ideas’ Importance, Attractiveness, and Publication

by Scott Jacques
Published: Jan 20, 2014
Qualitative research is published in criminology journals at a frequency far smaller than that of quantitative research. The question is ‘Why?' After reviewing existing theories of the discrepancy, this article draws on the paradigm of Blackian sociology, Jacques and ...
in Community Scott Jacques

Seeing the Offenders’ Perspective through the Eye-Tracking Device: Methodological Insights from a Study of Shoplifters

by Scott Jacques, Nicole Lasky, and Bonnie Fisher
NL
BF
Published: Oct 14, 2015
This article examines the utility of a novel tool for conducting offender-based research: the “eye-tracking device” (ETD), which is designed to identify what a person sees in the center of his or her vision. First, we review prior research using the ETD. Second, we detail the ...
in Community Scott Jacques

Where Are We? Why Are We Here? Where Are We Going? How Do We Get There? The Future of Qualitative Research in American Criminology

by Richard Wright, Scott Jacques, and Michael Stein
RW
MS
Published: Jul 01, 2015
This chapter explores the following questions: Why has quantitative research achieved dominance in American criminology, and what implications does this have for the future of qualitative criminological research? It outlines the ways in which quantitative criminology's ...
in Community Scott Jacques

Interviewing Offenders: The Active vs. Inmate Debate

by Heith Copes, Scott Jacques, Andrew Hochstetler, and Timothy Dickinson
HC
AH
TD
Published: Mar 01, 2015
Criminologists have a long history of interviewing those engaged in illegal behaviors to gain insights into the nature of crime and criminality (Bennett, 1981). Ethnographic interviews give offenders the opportunity to explain their offenses and lifestyles from their own ...
in Community Scott Jacques

Learning from the Offenders’ Perspective on Crime Prevention

by Scott Jacques and Elizabeth Bonomo
EB
Published: Aug 28, 2016
Criminals have a firsthand perspective on why and how to commit crime. In this chapter, we outline and illustrate five ways that offender-based research can be used to inform understanding of crime prevention, more specifically situational crime prevention: namely (1) by ...
in Community Scott Jacques

Pairing Fieldworkers with Patrol Officers: A Study of Supervising Officers’ Selections

by Andrea Allen and Scott Jacques
AA
Published: Apr 16, 2017
Qualitative, field-based studies of police tend not to rely on random sampling, but, instead, navigate a well-trodden path to cases. The first step is gaining a supervising officer's (SO) consent to study their department, and the last step is convincing patrol officers (POs) ...
in Community Scott Jacques

Which Source Possesses the Best Data on the Empirical Aspects of Criminal Events? A Theory of Opportunity and Necessary Conditions

by Scott Jacques
Published: Dec 21, 2018
Offenders and nonoffenders possess valuable information about crime. But which possesses the best data? This is a complex issue, so I narrow my focus to data on empirical aspects of criminal events. Drawing on the necessary conditions perspective, I theorize that a source’s ...
in Community Scott Jacques

Lost in the Park: Learning to Navigate the Unpredictability of Fieldwork

by Elizabeth Bonomo and Scott Jacques
EB
Published: Oct 10, 2019
At a park in downtown Atlanta, there is an area about the size of a boxing ring where people gather to play chess. Surrounded by low perching walls with flower boxes on top, there are four picnic-style tables with inlay chessboards. Across the street are restaurants, coffee ...
in Community Scott Jacques

Weapon Lethality and Social Distance: A National Test of a Social Structural Theory

by Callie Rennison, Scott Jacques, and Mark Berg
CR
MB
Published: Oct 15, 2010
Three paradigms can be used to explain weapon lethality: rational choice and deterrence theory; social learning and cultural theory; and opportunity and prevalence theory. Each makes distinct predictions regarding the economic, psychological, and environmental factors that ...
in Community Scott Jacques

Amsterdam’s Coffeeshops, Victimization, and Police Mobilization

by Kim Moeller and Scott Jacques
KM
Published: Jun 06, 2020
Police mobilization is a first step in the judicial process and an important source of information on offending. Whether victims mobilize police is affected by their assessment of its utility. Victims who are criminals, such as drug dealers, are known to face a different ...
in Community Scott Jacques

The Necessary Conditions for Retaliation: Toward a Theory of Non-Violent and Violent Forms in Drug Markets

by Scott Jacques
Published: Apr 30, 2009
Research provides strong support for the theory that drug market participants are often involved in violent retaliation because they lack access to formal mediation. Yet retaliation is not always violent. The existing drug market literature offers few counts, estimates, or ...
in Community Scott Jacques

Bentham, Not Epicurus: The Relevance of Pleasure to Studies of Drug-Involved Pain

by Scott Jacques
Published: Oct 29, 2016
There is a disproportionate focus on pain over pleasure in policy-relevant research on drugs. This is unfortunate because theories of and findings on drug-involved pleasure can be used to inform knowledge of drug-involved pain. The cross-fertilization of theories and findings ...
in Community Scott Jacques

“He Did that Because I was Black”: Black College Students Perceive Municipal Police, Not Campus Police, as Discriminating

by Andrea Allen and Scott Jacques
Published: Dec 11, 2018
This article examines qualitative data obtained from 66 Black college students about perceptions of their interactions with municipal police (MP) and campus police (CP). Participants described MP and CP as acting severely, but only attributed racial bias to MP. This finding ...
in Community Scott Jacques

“Thinking thief” in the Crime Prevention Arms Race: Lessons Learned from Shoplifters

by Nicole Lasky, Bonnie Fisher, and Scott Jacques
NL
BF
Published: Jul 20, 2017
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Victim Injury and Social Distance: A National Test of a General Principle of Conflict

by Callie Rennison, Scott Jacques, and Andrea Allen
CR
AA
Published: Jan 01, 2016
Our inquiry focuses on why some violent offenses but not others result in injury to the victim. Building on existing theory nested in the paradigm of pure sociology, we propose and test a general principle of conflict: Victim injury varies directly with social distance. This ...
in Community Scott Jacques

Posterior Gains and Immediate Pains: Offender Emotions Before, During and After Robberies

by Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard, Wim Bernasco, Scott Jacques, and Babet Zevenbergen
ML
WB
BZ
Published: Nov 26, 2013
When addressing affect, studies of criminal decision making have tended to focus on a limited number of negative emotions such as shame, regret and guilt. Instead of being felt at the time decision of whether or not to commit crime, these emotions actually regard expectations ...
in Community Scott Jacques

Social Distance and Immediate Informal Responses to Violent Victimization

by Scott Jacques and Callie Rennison
CR
Published: Sep 07, 2012
There are a number of ways that victims of violence informally handle attacks as they unfold. Their responses range in severity from physical resistance, to talking it out with the offender, to running away, to cooperating. Why do victims respond in a more or less severe ...
in Community Scott Jacques

Reflexive Retaliation for Violent Victimization: The Effect of Social Distance on Weapon Lethality

by Scott Jacques and Callie Rennison
CR
Published: Jan 01, 2013
During the course of being victimized, why do people sometimes fight back with their fists, in other cases with a knife or blunt object, and at other times a firearm? One theory is that the weapons involved in self-defense, also known as reflexive retaliation, become less ...
in Community Scott Jacques

Glossing Over Shoplifting: How Thieves Act Normal

by Nicole Lasky, Scott Jacques, and Bonnie Fisher
NL
BF
Published: Dec 09, 2014
Although criminals are known to put on a façade of normalcy while offending, no study has categorized the various ways they do so in a theoretically informed manner. We address this gap in the literature by drawing on Goffman’s notion of body gloss to explore how shoplifters ...
in Community Scott Jacques

Agency as a Cause of Crime

by Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard and Scott Jacques
ML
Published: Oct 22, 2013
Laub and Sampson's age-graded theory of social control posits that the greater is a person's agency, the less that person commits crime. But agency has a dark side as well. Some people choose to offend in order to transform their life; when this happens, agency is a ...
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“It Takes Skills to Take a Car”: Perceptual and Procedural Expertise in Carjacking

by Volkan Topalli, Scott Jacques, and Richard Wright
RW
Published: Jan 01, 2015
This article explores the crucial role played by criminal expertise in carjacking, a violent street offense that exhibits characteristics of both car theft and robbery. Specifically, it describes the manner in which an offender's perceptual skills (aimed at discerning the ...
in Community Scott Jacques

Police Officers’ Theories of Crime

by Andrea Allen and Scott Jacques
AA
Published: Sep 13, 2015
What factors do police officers point to in explaining offending and victimization? A limited amount of prior research has addressed this question, despite the possibility that such theories impact police practice. Moreover, the findings that do exist are based solely on ...
in Community Scott Jacques

The Victimization—Termination Link

by Scott Jacques and Richard Wright
RW
Published: Dec 01, 2008
The life histories of drug dealers suggest that victimizations sometimes mark turning points toward the end of criminal careers, which is a criminologically important but neglected empirical connection that we label the “victimization–termination link.” We theorize this link ...
in Community Scott Jacques

The Relevance of Peace to Studies of Drug Market Violence

by Scott Jacques and Richard Wright
RW
Published: Feb 01, 2008
Goldstein's concept of systemic violence has contributed substantially to criminological thought and research, but its power can be enhanced by connecting it to a broader typology of social life: the resource exchange—social control typology. That typology ...
in Community Scott Jacques

Drug Law and Violent Retaliation

by Scott Jacques and Richard Wright
RW
Published: Jul 01, 2010
Sir Francis Bacon believed “the true and lawful goal of the sciences is not other than this: that human life be endowed with new discoveries and powers.” The goal of pure science is to understand behavior, while the goal of applied science is to control behavior. ...
in Community Scott Jacques

Informal Control and Illicit Drug Trade

by Scott Jacques and Richard Wright
RW
Published: Aug 08, 2011
Antidrug legislation and enforcement are meant to reduce the trade in illegal drugs by increasing their price. Yet the unintended consequence is an increase in informal control—including retaliation, negotiation, avoidance, and toleration—among drug users and dealers. Little ...
in Community Scott Jacques

The Emergence and Evolution of Drug User Groups in the UK

by Trevor Bennett, Scott Jacques, and Richard Wright
TB
RW
Published: Oct 19, 2011
The aim of this article is to describe and explain the development of drug user groups in the UK and elsewhere by drawing on a case study of one of the earliest drug user association formed in England in 1983, known as the Drug Dependents’ Association. By way of context, a ...
in Community Scott Jacques

The Offenders’ Perspective on Prevention: Guarding Against Victimization and Law Enforcement

by Scott Jacques and Danielle Reynald
DR
Published: May 09, 2011
Law-abiding citizens are concerned with deterring and preventing crime. One strategy to accomplish this goal is to increase the costs and reduce the benefits that particular situations present to offenders. This form of crime control is known as situational crime prevention. ...
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The Code of the Suburb and Drug Dealing

by Scott Jacques and Richard Wright
RW
Published: Dec 28, 2012
High rates of violence are characteristic of many urban drug markets because the individuals therein abide by a set of informal rules known as the code of the street. This code governs interpersonal conduct that emerges from the social circumstances found in various ...
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Policing Alcohol-Related Crime among College Students

by Andrea Allen and Scott Jacques
AA
Published: Mar 01, 2013
Alcohol is connected to crime in two broad ways. One is alcohol crime, which refers to prohibited acts of substance consumption, possession, distribution (buying, selling, or giving), and manufacturing (e.g., brewing one’s own supply). Examples include underage drinking, ...
in Community Scott Jacques

Alcohol-Related Crime among College Students: A Review of Research and Fruitful Areas for Future Work

by Andrea Allen and Scott Jacques
AA
Published: Sep 09, 2013
College and alcohol are a potent mix. This paper reviews what is known and unknown about college students’ involvement in alcohol-related crime as both offenders and victims. There are three types of alcohol-related crime: psychopharmacological; economic compulsive; and ...
in Community Scott Jacques

Drug Dealing: Amsterdam’s Red Light District

by Scott Jacques and Wim Bernasco
WB
Published: Jun 08, 2015
Amsterdam has many lively spots, including Leidseplein, Rembrandtplein, and an area that locals call de Wallen. Foreigners know it as the Red Light District. The sex trade gives this area its name but it is also a hot spot to procure drugs, having been called everything from ...
in Community Criminology Open

Understanding the Green Access Rank of Most Cited Journals in Criminology

by Scott Jacques
Published: Jun 08, 2020
in Community Scott Jacques

Drug Dealers’ Rational Choices on Which Customers to Rip-Off

by Scott Jacques, Andrea Allen, and Richard Wright
AA
RW
Published: Mar 01, 2014
Drug dealers are infamous for overcharging customers and handing over less than owed. One reason rip-offs frequently occur is blackmarket participants have limited access to formal means of dispute resolution and, as such, are attractive prey. Yet drug dealers do not cheat ...
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How Victimized Drug Traders Mobilize Police

by Scott Jacques and Richard Wright
RW
Published: Jan 27, 2013
Illicit drug traders are more likely to be victimized because they cannot report crimes committed against them to the police. Their inability to access law is seen as a major precipitating factor in retaliatory violence. But, as we demonstrate, sometimes victimized drug ...
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Bentham’s Sanction Typology and Restrictive Deterrence: A Study of Young, Suburban, Middle-Class Drug Dealers

by Scott Jacques and Andrea Allen
AA
Published: Aug 08, 2013
Restrictive deterrence is the process whereby offenders limit the frequency, magnitude, or seriousness of their offenses to avoid pain. Prior research on drug dealing and restrictive deterrence largely focuses on the effect of formal control, or political sanction. Bentham, ...
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Global Marijuana Cultivation and Societal Place Because and In Spite of American Policy and Perception

by Charles Hogan and Scott Jacques
CH
Published: Sep 26, 2015
This chapter presents a review of the legal and cultural path that marijuana has taken through the twentieth century and into the twenty‐first. From the ripple effect of early US criminalization, the start of global marijuana prohibition will begin to unfold under the ...
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Drug Dealers, Retaliation & Deterrence

by Scott Jacques, Richard Wright, and Andrea Allen
RW
AA
Published: Jul 01, 2014
Illicit drug sellers have limited access to formal mediation and therefore are rational targets to predators. As such, dealers are especially reliant on retaliation to deter victimization. Prior scholarship on dealers, retaliation, and deterrence has focused largely on ...
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A Sociological Theory of Drug Sales, Gifts, and Frauds

by Scott Jacques and Richard Wright
RW
Published: Nov 04, 2010
The transfer of drugs from one person to another does not always involve a fair sale. Gifts and frauds are also common. Although the rationality perspective has dominated and made important contributions to the study of drug transfer, this article proposes a new theory of ...
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Drug Market Violence: Virtual Anarchy, Police Pressure, Predation, and Retaliation

by Scott Jacques and Andrea Allen
Published: Oct 07, 2014
Drug consumption and addiction are known to increase the incidence of violent and property crimes. For this reason, governments prohibit the trade in some psychoactive substances and vigorously enforce the law. The unfortunate consequence of this governmental control is ...
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Where Do Dealers Solicit Customers and Sell Them Drugs? A Micro-Level Multiple Methods Study

by Wim Bernasco and Scott Jacques
WB
Published: Oct 14, 2015
According to a rational choice theory of crime location choice, offenders commit crimes at locations where the mix of expected rewards and costs is optimal. The present study applied this general theory to a very specific crime—illicit drug dealing in an open air drug market ...
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Drug Sellers' Neutralizations of Guiltless Drug Sales and Avoidance of "Drug Dealer" Identities

by Timothy Dickinson and Scott Jacques
TD
Published: Nov 01, 2019
Despite a wealth of empirical exploration on neutralization theory, several aspects of the theory remain underexplored. For instance, one task of neutralization research is to investigate whether and how neutralizations vary with offender characteristics. A second ...
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“A Run-In with the Cops is Really Few and Far Between”: Negative Evidence and Ethnographic Understanding of Racial Discrimination by Police

by Scott Jacques
Published: Oct 25, 2016
Statistics show that blacks are subjected to disproportionately more policing than whites, and more often interpret their encounters with police as affected by racial discrimination. The ethnographic evidence supports the numbers, but this body of work, I suggest, has been ...
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The Effects of Prohibition and Decriminalization on Drug Market Conflict: Comparing Street Dealers, Coffeeshops, and Cafés in Amsterdam

by Scott Jacques, Richard Rosenfeld, Richard Wright, and Frank van Gemert
RR
RW
FG
Published: May 19, 2016
To reduce individual and social harms, most nations prohibit certain psychoactive drugs. Yet, prior scholarship has suggested that prohibition reduces illicit drug sellers’ access to law and thereby increases predation against and retaliation by them. No prior ...
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What Criminals’ Tattoos Symbolize: Drawing on Darwin, Durkheim, and Lombroso

by Scott Jacques
Published: Jan 31, 2017
Criminals’ tattoos have many meanings. A limitation of prior research is that these meanings have not been organized into an elegant yet exhaustive typology that is theoretically informed. To address that gap, this article analyzes “Russian criminal tattoos” in light of ...
International Criminal Justice Review

Why Is Student Deviance Lower in Japan than in the U.S.? Influences of Individual, Parental, Peer, Social, and Environmental Factors

by Emiko Kobayashi and David Farrington
EK
DF
Published: Jun 12, 2020
Andrea Allen

Police Officers’ Theories of Crime

by Andrea Allen and Scott Jacques
Published: Jun 14, 2020
Andrea Allen

Bentham’s Sanction Typology and Restrictive Deterrence: A Study of Young, Suburban, Middle-Class Drug Dealers

by Scott Jacques and Andrea Allen
Published: Jun 14, 2020
Andrea Allen

Alcohol-Related Crime among College Students: A Review of Research and Fruitful Areas for Future Work

by Andrea Allen and Scott Jacques
Published: Jun 14, 2020
Andrea Allen

Drug Dealers, Retaliation, and Deterrence

by Scott Jacques, Richard Wright, and Andrea Allen
RW
Published: Jun 14, 2020
Andrea Allen

Policing Alcohol-Related Crime among College Students

by Andrea Allen and Scott Jacques
Published: Jun 14, 2020
Andrea Allen

Drug Dealers’ Rational Choices on Which Customers to Rip-Off

by Scott Jacques, Andrea Allen, and Richard Wright
RW
Published: Jun 14, 2020
Andrea Allen

Pairing Fieldworkers with Patrol Officers: A Study of Supervising Officers’ Selections

by Andrea Allen and Scott Jacques
Published: Jun 14, 2020
Andrea Allen

Victim Injury and Social Distance: A National Test of a General Principle of Conflict

by Andrea Allen and Scott Jacques
AA
Published: Jun 14, 2020
in Community Criminology Open

Understanding & Editing the Wiki List of Criminology Journals

by Scott Jacques
Published: Jul 01, 2020
in Community Criminology Open

Understanding the Citation Rank of Diamond Journals in Criminology

by Scott Jacques
Published: Jul 05, 2020
in Community CrimRxiv

How To Submit: Importing and Linking

Published: Jul 07, 2020
Videos and written instructions for how to submit items for publication on CrimRxiv
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Bentham, Not Epicurus: The Relevance of Pleasure to Studies of Drug-Involved Pain

by Scott Jacques
Published: Jul 07, 2020
in Community CrimRxiv

Drug Control Policy, Normalization, and Symbolic Boundaries in Amsterdam’s Coffeeshops

by Timothy Dickinson and Scott Jacques
TD
Published: Jul 14, 2020
in Community CrimRxiv

Proterrence & Rule Illegitimacy in an Age of Creeping Social Control: The Ban on Tobacco Smoke in Amsterdam’s Coffeeshops

by Bruce Jacobs and Scott Jacques
BJ
Published: Jul 07, 2020
in Community Criminology Open

The Utility of Making Your Preprints Open Access

by Scott Jacques
Published: Jul 10, 2020
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Drug Control Policy, Normalization, and Symbolic Boundaries in Amsterdam’s Coffeeshops

by Timothy Dickinson and Scott Jacques
TD
Published: Jul 23, 2020
This study examines the relationship between drug control policy, normalization, and symbolic boundary work among drug traders. Taking from interviews with 50 personnel in Amsterdam’s coffeeshops, we find that Dutch drug policy shapes their understanding of what comprises ...
in Community CrimRxiv

Drug Control Policy, Normalization, and Symbolic Boundaries in Amsterdam’s Coffeeshops

by Timothy Dickinson and Scott Jacques
TD
Published: Jul 25, 2020
British Journal of Criminology; no DOI at time of this rxiving
Andrea Allen

“He Did that Because I was Black”: Black College Students Perceive Municipal Police, Not Campus Police, as Discriminating

by Andrea Allen and Scott Jacques
Published: Jun 14, 2020
in Community Journal of Qualitative Criminal Justice & Criminology

Letter from the Editor

by Scott Jacques
Published: Aug 05, 2020
In this letter, Scott Jacques describes his motives for serving as editor; editorial policies and practices; advice and requests for authors and referees; and, finally, how you can serve the journal.
Digital Criminology

GroupMe

by Scott Jacques
Published: Aug 26, 2020
in Community Journal of Qualitative Criminal Justice & Criminology

Goodbye JQCJC.org, Hello QualitativeCriminology.com

by Scott Jacques
Published: Sep 01, 2020
In this editorial, Scott Jacques describes the changes that accompany the journal's new URL; provides a word cloud that represents all publications on JQCJC.org; and, hyperlinks to the old website as archived on the Wayback Machine.
in Community CrimRxiv

Testing IFTTT. Ignore please!

by Scott Jacques, Andrea Allen, and Willa Monet
WM
Published: Oct 08, 2021
in Community Journal of Qualitative Criminal Justice & Criminology

Replacing Keywords with Word Clouds

by Josh Beck and Scott Jacques
Published: Nov 12, 2020
In this editorial, Josh Beck and Scott Jacques explain why word clouds are a useful way to summarize articles; describe the backstory for replacing keywords with word clouds in QC; and, outline the process for creating them.
in Community Criminology Open

ASC Should Make It Legal for Their Journals' Authors to Immediately, Publicly Share the Accepted Version of Their Manuscripts

by Eric Piza and Scott Jacques
EP
Published: Oct 19, 2020
Connections
Versions (1): 
ASC Should Make It Legal for Their Journals' Authors to Immediately, Publicly Share the Accepted Version of Their Manuscripts
in Community Criminology Open

Criminology Units Can Sidestep Embargoes With a Rights-Retention Policy

by Scott Jacques
Published: Oct 31, 2020
Scott & Monash

Statement on the Selection Criteria

by Scott Jacques
Published: Oct 27, 2020
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Situational Awareness and Public Wi-Fi Users’ Self-Protective Behaviors

by C. Jordan Howell, David Maimon, Scott Jacques, and Robert Perkins
RP
Published: Nov 23, 2020
Accessing public Wi-Fi networks can be as dangerous as it is convenient. People who access a public Wi-Fi network should engage in self-protective behaviors to keep their data safe from malicious actors on the same network as well as persons looking over their shoulder, ...
in Community CrimRxiv

Situational Awareness and Public Wi-Fi Users’ Self-Protective Behaviors

by David Maimon, C. Jordan Howell, Scott Jacques, and Robert Perkins
RP
Published: Oct 20, 2020
Accessing public Wi-Fi networks can be as dangerous as it is convenient. People who access a public Wi-Fi network should engage in self-protective behaviors to keep their data safe from malicious actors on the same network as well as persons looking over their shoulder, ...
in Community Criminology Open

Rights-Retention Policies at PhD-Granting Criminology Programs in the US

by Scott Jacques
Published: Oct 30, 2020
in Community CrimRxiv

The Restrictive Deterrent Effect of Warning Messages Sent to Active Romance Fraudsters: An Experimental Approach

by Fangzhou Wang, C. Jordan Howell, David Maimon, and Scott Jacques
FW
Published: Nov 05, 2020
Victims of romance fraud experience both a financial and emotional burden. Although multiple studies have offered insight into the correlates of perpetration and victimization, no known study has examined if, and how, romance fraud can be curtailed. The current study uses a ...
in Community Journal of Qualitative Criminal Justice & Criminology

Open Review at ...Qualitative...Criminology

by Scott Jacques
Published: May 26, 2021
In this editorial, Scott Jacques explains how the journal's values led us to do open review, how we are expanding it, and how that change intersects with sharing preprints on CrimRxiv.
in Community CrimRxiv

Proterrence, Rule Illegitimacy, and the Ban on Tobacco Smoke in Amsterdam's Coffeeshops

by Scott Jacques and Bruce A. Jacobs
BJ
Published: Oct 14, 2021
This article examines the concept of proterrence: scaring people into doing something to stop others from doing something bad. This contrasts to deterrence, which involves threatening persons to not do something bad. The tobacco ban in Amsterdam coffeeshops and, more ...
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Preprints (1): 
Bruce Jacobs & 1 other
in Community CrimRxiv

Toleration by Victimized Coffeeshops in Amsterdam

by Scott Jacques and Kim Moeller
KM
Published: Jan 08, 2021
in Community Journal of Qualitative Criminal Justice & Criminology

Editor's Introduction to Comments on the CrimCon Controversey

by Scott Jacques
Published: Aug 30, 2021
in Community Scott Jacques

Curriculum Vitae

by Scott Jacques
Published: Nov 29, 2021
in Community Scott Jacques

Bypass Embargoes by Providing the World’s Scholars With a Rights-Retention Policy

by Scott Jacques
Published: Dec 04, 2021
A Proposal to the Open Access DAO
AYS Open Press

Drug Control Policy, Normalization, and Symbolic Boundaries in Amsterdam’s Coffee Shops

by Timothy Dickinson and Scott Jacques
TD
Published: Apr 23, 2021
in Community CrimRxiv

Learning from Criminals: Active Offender Research for Criminology

by Volkan Topalli, Timothy Dickinson, and Scott Jacques
TD
Published: Sep 05, 2020
in Community Scott Jacques

Proterrence, Rule Illegitimacy, & The Ban on Tobacco Smoke in Amsterdam’s Coffeeshops

by Scott Jacques and Bruce Jacobs
BJ
Published: Jul 03, 2021
This paper examines the concept of proterrence: scaring people into doing something to stop others from doing something bad. This contrasts to deterrence, which involves threatening persons to not do something bad. The tobacco ban in Amsterdam coffeeshops ...
in Community CrimRxiv

Social media forensics applied to assessment of post–critical incident social reaction: The case of the 2017 Manchester Arena terrorist attack

by Scott Jacques, Bérubé, Maxime, Tang, Thuc-Uyên, Fortin, Francis, Ozlap, Sefa, Williams, Matthew L., and Burnap, Pete
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Published: Aug 31, 2021
in Community CrimRxiv

Grey Area: Regulating Amsterdam's Coffeeshops

by Scott Jacques
Published: May 01, 2019
Coffeeshops are the most famous example of Dutch tolerance. But in fact, these cannabis distributors are highly regulated. Coffeeshops are permitted to break the law, but not the rules. On the premises, there cannot be minors, hard drugs or more than 500 grams. Nor can a ...
in Community CrimRxiv

Jeremy Bentham on Police: The unknown story and what it means for criminology

by Scott Jacques and Philip Schofield
PS
Published: Oct 18, 2021
Jeremy Bentham’s ideas on punishment are famous. Every criminology student learns about Bentham, and every criminologist contends with him, as advocate or opponent. This discourse concerns his ideas about punishment, namely with respect to legislation and the panopticon. Yet, ...
in Community CrimRxiv

ASC Should Make It Legal for Their Journals' Authors to Immediately, Publicly Share the Accepted Version of Their Manuscripts

by Eric Piza and Scott Jacques
EP
Published: Oct 19, 2020
Call to action
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Eric Piza & 1 other
in Community CrimRxiv

Criminology Units Can Sidestep Embargoes With a Rights-Retention Policy

by Scott Jacques
Published: Oct 31, 2020
Call to action
Connections
Versions (1): 
Scott Jacques
in Community CrimRxiv

The Irony of Paywalled Articles Is They Can Be Made Open Access for Free: What It Means for ACJS Journals

by Scott Jacques and Eric Piza
EP
Published: Mar 04, 2022
Call to action
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Versions (1): 
Scott Jacques
in Community CrimRxiv

Why and How Criminology Should Be Free

by Scott Jacques
Published: Mar 15, 2022
Connections
Versions (1): 
Scott Jacques
in Community Scott Jacques

5 Things with Scott Jacques, director of Criminology Open: On NFTs and Crime

by Scott Jacques
Published: Mar 28, 2022
For KFG Commonplace's '5 Things to Think About'
in Community Commonplace

5 Things with Scott Jacques, director of Criminology Open

by Scott Jacques
Published: Mar 31, 2022
On NFTs and crime
in Community CrimRxiv

Magnitude and associated factors of depression among prisoners in Wollega zones, Oromia region, Ethiopia: A cross-sectional study

by Scott Jacques, Edosa Tadesse, Emiru Merdassa, Eba Abdisa, and Tadesse Tolossa
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Published: Apr 02, 2022
in Community CrimRxiv

Gender, Police Culture, and Structured Ambivalence: Navigating ‘Fit' with the Brotherhood, Boys’ Club, and Sisterhood

by Scott Jacques
Published: May 06, 2022
in Community CrimRxiv

Toleration by Victimized Coffeeshops in Amsterdam

by Scott Jacques and Kim Moeller
KM
Published: Jul 16, 2022
Postprint of article in Crime & Delinquency
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Preprints (1): 
Scott Jacques & 1 other
in Community Scott Jacques

Toleration by Victimized Coffeeshops in Amsterdam

by Scott Jacques and Kim Moeller
KM
Published: Jul 16, 2022
Dutch coffeeshops are quasi-illegal. Their sale of cannabis is de jure prohibited but de facto permitted. In this sense, their criminal acts are tolerated. Less often explored, and less well understood, is that coffeeshops also tolerate crimes against them. “Doing nothing” is ...
in Community Scott Jacques

Activities for Annual Review, 2022

by Scott Jacques
Published: Jan 23, 2023
in Community CrimRxiv

Ranking the openness of criminology units: An attempt to incentivize the use of librarians, institutional repositories, and unit-dedicated subpages to increase scholarly impact and justice

by Scott Jacques
Published: Oct 05, 2022
This is the postprint of a paper first published on this page as a preprint (https://www.crimrxiv.com/pub/ujmdet95/release/9)
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Reviews (2): 
Callie Burt
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Andrew Wheeler
in Community CrimRxiv

Social Science & the American Crime Problem: An Open Online Course

by Scott Jacques
Published: Jan 09, 2023
CRJU 2200, Georgia State University
in Community Scott Jacques

Activities for Annual Review, 2023

by Scott Jacques
Published: Jul 25, 2023
This is my mid-year report.
in Community Scott Jacques

Code of the Suburb: Inside the World of Young Middle-Class Drug Dealers

by Scott Jacques and Richard Wright
RW
Published: May 01, 2015
When we think about young people dealing drugs, we tend to picture it happening on urban streets, in disadvantaged, crime-ridden neighborhoods. But drugs are used and sold everywhere, even in upscale suburbs and top-tier high schools. Drawing on my fieldwork, Code of the ...
in Community Scott Jacques

Jeremy Bentham on Police: The Unknown Story and What It Means for Criminology

by Scott Jacques and Philip Schofield
PS
Published: Apr 30, 2021
Bentham’s ideas on punishment are famous. Every criminology student learns about Bentham. Every criminologist contends with him, as advocate or opponent. This discourse concerns his ideas about punishment, namely with respect to legislation and the panopticon. Yet, they are ...
in Community Scott Jacques

Active Offender Perspective Research: Its Methodological Utility and Insights on Inner-City, Disadvantaged Communities

by Scott Jacques and Timothy Dickinson
TD
Published: Jul 01, 2017
Criminology not only draws on the perspective of many disciplines, but also of many subjects. In this article, we focus on active offender perspective research, or AOPR. We begin by describing classic studies of offender-based research with both active and inactive offenders. ...
in Community Scott Jacques

Curriculum Vitae

by Scott Jacques
Published: May 30, 2020
Updated August 8, 2023.
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Scott Jacques
in Community Scott Jacques

5 Things with Scott Jacques, director of Criminology Open: On NFTs and Crime

by Scott Jacques
Published: Mar 31, 2022
It’s embarrassing to admit, but I’m really into NFTs. I blame Zach Verdin, the Head of Strategic Programs at Knowledge Futures Group. He convinced me to buy my first one, back in late 2021. This stemmed from our broader conversation about the technology. Already, I was ...
in Community Scott Jacques

The Irony of Paywalled Articles Is They Can Be Made Open Access for Free: What It Means for ACJS Journals

by Scott Jacques and Eric Piza
EP
Published: Mar 04, 2022
The field of criminal justice (CJ) uses research, education, and outreach to make the world better. CJ scholars have become increasingly concerned with applied science, whereby research findings are widely disseminated and used to positively impact the CJ system. The Academy ...
in Community Scott Jacques

Ranking the openness of criminology units: An attempt to incentivize the use of librarians, institutional repositories, and unit-dedicated subpages to increase scholarly impact and justice

by Scott Jacques
Published: Oct 05, 2022
This is the postprint of a paper first published as a preprint and then as a postprint on CrimRxiv
in Community Scott Jacques

Your Personal Website Is a Legal Solution to Embargo Problems

by Scott Jacques
Published: Jul 02, 2020
This article describes and explains a legal solution to embargo problems: (1) the inability to freely and publicly share your written works (2) in a way that is reasonably discoverable by search engines. It is best to avoid the dilemma by publishing in diamond, gold, or ...
in Community Scott Jacques

Websites That Promote Open Educational Resources (OER)

by Scott Jacques
Published: Jun 22, 2021
This page provides a curated list of websites that promote Open Educational Resources (OER). They include information on the utility of OER; libraries for finding it; guides to making it; and, platforms for sharing it. ...
in Community Scott Jacques

Why & How to Make a Personal Website (for Free)

by Scott Jacques
Published: Apr 15, 2022
When authors make their papers open access (OA), they increase their impact and contribute to social justice. An impediment are publisher embargoes, which limit when and where authors can legally share their postprints. Some publishers, like Wiley, prohibit sharing anywhere ...
in Community Scott Jacques

Whether & How To Share a Single Work Across Multiple Platforms

by Scott Jacques
Published: Apr 08, 2021
There are many platforms, or places, to make your papers green open access (OA). In addition to CrimRxiv, there is your personal webpage, institutional repository, other field-specific repositories, broader repositories, and websites like ResearchGate and Academia. Should you ...
in Community Scott Jacques

Why and How Criminology Should Be Free

by Scott Jacques
Published: May 10, 2020
Fellow Criminologists: We can make our written works free to everyone, with only a little extra effort. Too much of what we write is behind publisher paywalls. The current system is socially unjust and irrational. It hampers the spread of scholarship’s benefits, costing more ...
in Community Scott Jacques

The Utility of Making Your Preprints Open Access

by Scott Jacques
Published: Jul 20, 2020
Authors should consider this article when deciding whether to share preprints via Open Access (OA) repositories, such as CrimRxiv. “Preprints” are papers that have not been accepted for publication; once accepted, they are “postprints.” As I explain below, making preprints OA ...
in Community Scott Jacques

How to Determine Copyright at Criminology Journals

by Scott Jacques
Published: May 04, 2020
This article is meant to minimize your time, effort, and uncertainty in determining copyright at criminology journals. This is crucial to legally make your articles free to everyone; that is, Open Access (OA). I describe four ways to determine copyright. All have ...
in Community Scott Jacques

Criminology Units Can Sidestep Embargoes With a Rights-Retention Policy

by Scott Jacques
Published: Oct 31, 2020
Every criminology article can be free, without radical change to the current system. In my Open (Access) Letter to Criminologists, I write about why we should pursue that goal and how we can achieve it. Key to the strategy is taking advantage of “green access” — the legal and ...
in Community Scott Jacques

ASC Should Make It Legal for Their Journals' Authors to Immediately, Publicly Share the Accepted Version of Their Manuscripts

by Eric Piza and Scott Jacques
EP
Published: Oct 19, 2020
We are writing with respect to the American Society of Criminology’s journals, Criminology: An Interdisciplinary Journal, and Criminology & Public Policy. Their self-archiving policy prohibits authors from sharing the accepted version of their manuscripts, or “postprints,” ...
in Community Scott Jacques

How Do You Teach Enlightenment? The Wrightian Method

by Scott Jacques
Published: Jul 13, 2010
Enlightenment is the use of resolve, courage, and intellect to think for one’s self. Not everyone reaches enlightenment, but bringing students to this cognitive destination should be the goal of teachers. This raises the question: How do you teach enlightenment? One answer is ...
in Community Scott Jacques

Get Better @Tweeting

by Scott Jacques
Published: Oct 15, 2021
Twitter is a social media platform for publicly sharing information in “tweets.” Tweets are limited to 280 characters (text and emojis) and four photos or a video (including GIFs). Tweets may be sent or read at twitter.com or on its “app” (application). By tweeting, a journal ...
in Community Scott Jacques

criminologystories.com

by Scott Jacques and Josh Beck
Published: May 18, 2020
The Oral History of Criminology Project preserves and share criminologists’ accounts of their landmark ideas and initiatives.
in Community Scott Jacques

crimrxiv.com

by Scott Jacques
Published: Jun 28, 2020
CrimRxiv is criminology's open access hub and repository.
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Supplements (1): 
Scott Jacques & 2 others
in Community Scott Jacques

A personal letter to ASC Leaders about the future of open criminology and their legacies

by Scott Jacques
Published: Apr 07, 2023
This is the first complete draft. I'm accepting feedback. You can comment at the page's bottom or email me at [email protected]
Utilitarian Learning & Science

A Model Website for Small Group Publishing: -- Change this into a pub on starting why to start your own company, among other things

by Scott Jacques
Published: Jul 13, 2023
Forthcoming
Utilitarian Learning & Science

Dedication

by Scott Jacques
Published: Jul 24, 2023
To everyone, especially Willa and Gray
in Community Scott Jacques

coado.org

by Scott Jacques
Published: Jan 12, 2021
COADO is an association of criminology outlets that are open access but sans processing-charge for authors.
in Community Scott Jacques

Criminology Open

by Scott Jacques, Andrea Allen, and Richard Wright
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Published: May 07, 2020
Criminology Open is a nonprofit corporation used to start and operate CrimRxiv, plus some other initiatives.
in Community Scott Jacques

Utilitarian Learning & Science

by Scott Jacques
Published: Jul 31, 2023
Utilitarian Learning & Science is a startup used to continue and expand on the work I did for Criminology Open and CrimRxiv; its major outputs include "The Company Book" at learningandscience.com.
in Community Scott Jacques

qualitativecriminology.com

by Scott Jacques
Published: Jul 01, 2020
The Journal of Qualitative Criminal Justice & Criminology is the best diamond open access journal devoted to qualitative criminology.
in Community Scott Jacques

Utilitarian Learning & Science: The Company Website Book

by Scott Jacques and colleagues
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Published: Jul 31, 2023
"The Company Website Book" is a living document on learningandsciene.com used to start, maintain, and grow Utilitarian Learning & Science.
in Community Scott Jacques

Social Science & the American Crime Problem

by Scott Jacques
Published: Jan 08, 2023
CRJU 2200, Georgia State University
in Community Scott Jacques

Digital Crime Problem

by Scott Jacques
Published: Jul 28, 2023
CRJU 3405, Georgia State University | This Pub is forthcoming Fall 2023
in Community Scott Jacques

Open Criminology

by Scott Jacques
Published: Jul 28, 2023
CRJU 4900, Georgia State University | This Pub is forthcoming Spring 2024
in Community Scott Jacques

Metaverse Society of Criminology

by Scott Jacques
Published: Aug 03, 2023
The Metaverse Society of Criminology is an experiment in institution-building for a future criminology.
in Community CrimRxiv

Guideline development in harm reduction: Considerations around the meaningful involvement of people who access services

by Scott Jacques, Alison Adams, and colleagues
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Published: May 13, 2022
Harm reduction seeks to minimizes the negative effects of drug use while respecting the rights of people with lived and living experience of substance use (PWLLE). Guideline standards (“guidelines for guidelines”) provide direction on developing healthcare guidelines. To ...
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