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Amirault, J., & Bouchard, M. (2017). Timing is everything: The role of contextual and terrorism-specific factors in the sentencing outcomes of terrorist offenders. European journal of criminology, 14(3), 269-289.

The punishment of terrorist offenders remains a relatively unexplored topic. Research is especially needed in the United Kingdom in light of the continued criminalization of terrorism specific offences and the July 2005 bombings. Using a sample of terrorist offenders convicted in the United Kingdom (n = 156), the current study examines the impact of legislative...

Amirault, J., & Bouchard, M. (2017). Timing is everything: The role of contextual and terrorism-specific factors in the sentencing outcomes of terrorist offenders. European Journal of Criminology, 14(3), 269-289.

The punishment of terrorist offenders remains a relatively unexplored topic. Research is especially needed in the United Kingdom in light of the continued criminalization of terrorism-specific offences and the July 2005 bombings. Using a sample of terrorist offenders convicted in the United Kingdom (n = 156), the current study examines the impact of legislative and incident-based...

Wong, J. S., Bouchard, J., Gravel, J., Bouchard, M., & Morselli, C. (2016). Can At-Risk Youth Be Diverted From Crime?: A Meta-Analysis of Restorative Diversion Programs. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 43(10), 1310-1329.

Existing reviews of the impact of restorative justice programs on juvenile recidivism have reached mixed conclusions. The present meta-analysis identified relevant studies through a systematic search of 20 databases over a 25-year period as well as the ancestry method. Application of inclusion criteria resulted in a set of 21 studies contributing 21 independent effect sizes....

Ducol, B., Bouchard, M., Davies, G., Ouellet, M., & Neudecker, C. (2016). Assessment of the state of knowledge: Connections between research on the social psychology of the Internet and violent extremism (16-05). TSAS Canadian Network for Research on Terrorism, Security, and Society.

This paper seeks to answer the question: How does social psychology contribute to our understanding of the link between the Internet and violent extremism? Link to full text on Research Gate

Gallupe, O., Nguyen, H., Bouchard, M., Schulenberg, J. L., Chenier, A., & Cook, K. D. (2016). An experimental test of deviant modeling. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 53(4), 482-505.

Objectives: Test the effect of deviant peer modeling on theft as conditioned by verbal support for theft and number of deviant models. Methods: Two related randomized experiments in which participants were given a chance to steal a gift card (ostensibly worth CAN$15) from the table in front of them. Each experiment had a control group, a verbal...

Amirault, J., Bouchard, M., Farrell, G., & Andresen, M. A. (2016). Criminalizing terrorism in Canada: Investigating the sentencing outcomes of terrorist offenders from 1963 to 2010. Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, 106(4), 769-809.

Despite having endured significant terrorist incidents over the past 50 years, terrorism-specific offenses were not criminalized in Canada until the implementation of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) in 2001. One of the primary goals of this legislation was to provide law enforcement with the tools necessary to proactively prevent terrorist incidents; however, the effectiveness of these...

Kreager, D. A., Schaefer, D. R., Bouchard, M., Haynie, D. L., Wakefield, S., Young, J., & Zajac, G. (2016). Toward a criminology of inmate networks. Justice Quarterly, 33(6), 1000-1028.

The mid-twentieth century witnessed a surge of American prison ethnographies focused on inmate society and the social structures that guide inmate life. Ironically, this literature virtually froze in the 1980s just as the country entered a period of unprecedented prison expansion, and has only recently begun to thaw. In this manuscript, we develop a rationale...

Gallupe, O., Bouchard, M., & Davies, G. (2015). Delinquent displays and social status among adolescents. Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, 57(4), 439-474.

Adolescents with high social status are more important than others in determining the delinquent involvement of the peer group. Yet relatively little is known about how delinquency and analogous acts and traits affect social status. We examine whether adolescents who display a capacity for delinquency enjoy greater social status (popularity/centrality). Two models of delinquency display...

Bouchard, M., Lussier, P. (2015). Estimating the prevalence and risks of incarceration of sexual offenders. pp. 351-371 In A. Blokland and P. Lussier (Eds.). Sex offenders: A criminal career approach. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.

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Bouchard, M., & Lussier, P. (2015). Estimating the size of the sexual aggressor population. In A. A. Blokland and P. Lussier (Eds.), Sex Offenders: A Criminal Career Approach (pp. 351-372). Chichester, UK: John Wiley and Sons.

Several key parameters were introduced by criminal career researchers to better understand the longitudinal sequence of offenses committed by individuals. Two of the four key parameters defined and described by criminal career researchers are: participation and frequency. Criminal career researchers posited that participation and frequency are two distinct phenomena that may be driven by different...

Amirault, J., & Bouchard, M. (2015). A group-based recidivist sentencing premium? The role of context and cohort effects in the sentencing of terrorist offenders. International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice, 43(4), 512-534.

Despite recent interest in terrorism little is known about the sentencing of terrorist offenders, and the impact of cohort effects on the sentencing patterns of offenders over the course of a terrorist campaign remains virtually unexplored. The ‘recidivist sentencing premium’ states that offenders who continually engage in criminal activities should be sanctioned more harshly as...

Bouchard, M., Joffres, K., Frank, R. (2014). Preliminary analytical considerations in designing a terrorism and extremism online network extractor. Pp. 171-184 in V. Mago and V. Dabbaghian, and (Eds), Computational Models of Complex Systems. New York: Springer.

It is now widely understood that extremists use the Internet in attempts to accomplish many of their objectives. In this chapter we present a web-crawler called the Terrorism and Extremism Network Extractor (TENE), designed to gather information about extremist activities on the Internet. In particular, this chapter will focus on how TENE may help differentiate...

Bouchard, M., Amirault, J. (2013). Advances in research on illicit networks. Global Crime, 14, 119-122.

This paper introduces the contributions included in the special issue of ‘Advances in Research on Illicit Networks’. It situates the collection of papers in the growing trend of studies applying network methods to illicit networks. Link to full text on Global Crime

Bouchard, M. (2012). Criminal networks in a transnational context. Pp. 79-84. In C. Leuprecht, T. Hataley, K. R. Nossal (Eds). Evolving transnational threats and border security: A new research agenda. Martello Paper Series, no 37. Centre for International and Defence Policy, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

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Descormiers, K., Bouchard, M., Corrado, R. (2011). Strain, social capital, and access to lucrative crime opportunities. International Journal of Child, Youth, and Family Studies, 2: 83-98.

General strain theory (GST) posits that the experience of strains cause negative emotions that individuals try to alleviate through various strategies, including delinquency. GST predicts that the choice of delinquency as a coping solution will be more likely in certain conditions, including those where criminal opportunities are more abundant. The current study considers the role...

Lussier, P., Bouchard, M., Beauregard, E. (2011). Patterns of criminal achievement in sexual offending: Unravelling the “successful sex offender”. Journal of Criminal Justice, 39, 433-444.

The current study examines significant variations in criminal achievement across sex offenders. To examine the “successful” sex offender, the study proposes a concept of achievement in sexual offending defined as the ability to maximise the payoffs of a crime opportunity while minimizing the costs. The study is based on a sample of convicted adult male...

Beauregard, E., Bouchard, M. (2010). Cleaning up your act: Forensic awareness as a detection avoidance strategy. Journal of Criminal Justice, 38, 1160-1166.

Although rational choice researchers has investigated how offenders successfully commit certain crimes, there is a lack of research looking at the factors explaining the use - or not - of certain detection avoidance strategies. This study introduces the concept of "forensic awareness" as a detection avoidance strategy, and proposes to examine the effect of disinhibitors,...

Bouchard, M., and Leduc, M. (2007). Dissuasion et Contre-dissuasion. Chapter 36 (pp. 517-529). In M. Cusson, F. Lemieux, B. Dupont (Eds.), Traité de Sécurité Intérieure. Hurtubise HMH, Montreal.

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