OBJECTIVE To carry out a spatial analysis of the occurrence of acts of violence (specifically robberies) in public transportation, identifying the regions of greater incidence, using geostatistics, and possible causes with the aid of a multicriteria analysis in the Geographic Information System. METHODS The unit of analysis is the traffic analysis zone of the survey named Origem-Destino, carr...

Americans age 12 or older experienced approximately 24.2 million violent and property victimizations in 2001 according to the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). Overall criminal victimizations included about 18.3 million property crimes (burglary, motor vehicle theft, and theft), 5.7 million violent crimes (rape, sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault, and simple assault), and abo...

The aim of the present study was to investigate role prior childhood abuse and current psychological symptoms on frequency drug use self-harming behavior among a group male prisoners convicted robbery. sample consists 127 men armed, aggravated, unarmed/forced robbery, who were held in Metris T-type closed penitentiary state correctional institution. History assessed with Childhood Trauma Questi...

On 9 May 2002, eight people were killed in a bank robbery Erste Bank’s branch Mór. The serious crime has put tremendous pressure on the public to find perpetrators as soon possible. About month and half after had been committed, Ede Kaiser László Hajdú arrested 24 July 2002 – they reasonably suspected of committing robbery, according police. Based evidence gathered, charged December 2003 convic...

Agent-based simulation is a useful tool in terms of assessing human behaviour under the criminal law. We developed a street robbery scenario generator with elements of a criminal law expert system to provide a tool for better understanding complex criminal matters.