Environmental crime: dialectical and criminological vision

Computer Crime: A Criminological Overview

This paper provides an overview of computer-related crime. Nine varieties of crime are considered: theft of services; communications in furtherance of criminal conspiracies; information piracy and forgery; the dissemination of offensive materials (including extortion threats); electronic money laundering; electronic vandalism and terrorism; telemarketing fraud; illegal interception; and electro...

Encyclopedia of Criminological Theory Neurology and Crime

Encyclopedia of Criminological Theory Brain Abnormalities and Crime

Criminological appraisals of psychiatric explanations of crime: 1936-1950.

Until the 1920s most North American criminologists echoed the viewpoints of European scholars. The major criminological works had been written by the Italian positivists Cesare Lombroso, Enrico Ferri and Raffaele Garofalo all of whom portrayed the criminal as pathological, the product of physical or mental abnormalities. They attempted to reveal, through scientific experimentation and controlle...

environmental design and crime prevention

crime and the fear of crime are pervasive and endemic concerns in modern society and criminal justice systems are clearly failing to tackle both issues. cpted is an acronym for crime prevention through environmental design which asserts that the proper design and effective use of the built environment can lead to a reduction in the fear and incidence of crime, and an improvement in the quality ...