The relationship between crime and urban environment has always been the focus of crime geography. Like diseases which can transmit and diffuse, crimes may also spread during a certain period of time and to a certain area by the near-repeat effect. Traditional near-repeat analysis focuses on the spatial spread of crimes to adjacent areas, with little regard to the displacement effect. Crime dis...

CONTEXT An increasing body of research has linked the geographic distribution of lead with various indicators of criminal and antisocial behavior. OBJECTIVE The current study, using data from an ongoing project related to lead exposure in St. Louis City, MO, analyzed the association between aggregate blood lead levels and specific indicators violent crime within the city. DESIGN Ecological ...

Something of a consensus has emerged within the international community and among commentators that war crimes tribunals have been too slow to investigate, charge, and prosecute war crimes. While acknowledging the importance of expediency in international criminal prosecution, particularly for victims, this Article challenges the feasibility, and even the desirability, of quick investigations a...

The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) is committed to improving the justice system’s response to crimes against children. OJJDP recognizes that children are at increased risk for crime victimization. Not only are children the vic­ tims of many of the same crimes that victimize adults, they are subject to other crimes, like child abuse and neglect, that are specific t...

The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) is committed to improving the justice system’s response to crimes against children. OJJDP recognizes that children are at increased risk for crime victimization. Not only are children the victims of many of the same crimes that victimize adults, they are subject to other crimes, like child abuse and neglect, that are specific to ...

The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) is committed to improving the justice system’s response to crimes against children. OJJDP recognizes that children are at increased risk for crime victimization. Not only are children the victims of many of the same crimes that victimize adults, they are subject to other crimes, like child abuse and neglect, that are specific to ...

To study the population of a high-security forensic hospital, utilizing its criminal records, clinical diagnoses and victim profiles. The records of 269 patients male were analyzed. Psychotic disorders were the most common findings (58%). The most common type of crime was murder or attempted murder (52.8%), and there was a significant correlation between psychotic disorders and this type of cri...

The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) is committed to improuing the justice system's response to crimes against children. OJJDP recognizes that children are a t increased risk for crime uictimization. Not only are children the uictims of many of the same crimes that uictimize adults, they are subject to other crimes, like child abuse and neglect, that are specific to...

Background: In specific criminal law, security crimes are of special importance for the whole society and the country due to their harmful effects on the public. One of these cases is the study of evidence in crimes against security that the manner and method of detection and investigation of perpetrators of crimes against security is different from other crimes. The purpose of explaining the c...