This study first examines the effects of parental divorce and paternal crime on offspring offending. Then, it tests whether parental divorce moderates the intergenerational transmission of crime. Diversity within the offending population is taken into account by examining whether effects are different for fathers who commit crimes at different points of the life-course and by distinguishing bet...

– The Internet is growing explosively, as is the number of crimes committed against or using computers. As a response to the growth of computer crime, the field of Computer and Network Forensics emerged. Computer forensics is the art of discovering and retrieving information about a crime in such a way to make it admissible in court. It is after-the-fact in that the only preventative capability...

I examine the effects that the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA), which legalized almost 3 million immigrants, had on crime in the United States. I exploit the IRCAs quasi-random timing as well as geographic variation in the intensity of treatment to isolate causal impacts. I find decreases in crime of 2%-6%, primarily due to decline in property crimes, equivalent to 80,000-240,000...

The Crime investigation department have very significant role in police system in all countries in the world. Computer systems are placed in almost all police stations to store and retrieve the crimes and criminal data and for subsequent reporting. For crime analysts, it is a challenging, time-consuming to determine who have been committed crimes from the large set of crimes that are happening ...

Until a few decades ago, the police were mainly a reactive bureaucratic organization that moved from one criminal event to the next, according to the degree to which the outside world required its services. Since then the police have abandoned the emphasis on law enforcement with regards to petty crime and public order. More recently the police have developed community policing as an important ...

We highlight the role of commuting cost, location and housing market in crime decision. By assuming that all crimes are committed in the central business district and that criminals create both positive and negative externalities to each other, we ...nd that high wages or large levels of police resources are a natural way to reduce crime. We also ...nd that bigger cities experience higher level...

The issue of the possibility classifying a crime committed by lawyer according to “using an official position” attribute is controversial in theory criminal law. In practice, some cases this qualifying factor used legal assessment actions lawyer, other it not applied. When prosecuting clear criteria for applying are necessary. paper analyzes explanations Plenum Supreme Court Russian Federation,...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of potential environmental and psychopathological risk factors, with special focus on symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), in a sample of adolescent offenders in relation to the type of crime committed. METHODS The assessment included data collection and administration of clinical standardized scales such as...

After the Second World War, the international trend in crime prevention was to address crime through the criminal justice system, which typically included a combination of vigorous policing, and a 'tough' justice system. This was based on an individualistic approach to crime prevention, which assumed that individual motivation plays an important role in the decision to commit a crime (Travis an...