The charge made by the Court led to an exhaustive investigation by the Fiscalia Nacional Economica (FNE), the national prosecutor for economic crimes, which oversees free competition in the country. The agency used documents and telephone calls to prove that during that time period, the three chains agreed clandestinely to raise the price of some medications by as much as 97%. Most notably, thi...

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...

Presently the concern over the security of mobile phones is driven by network operators wanting to stem the economic impact of losing subsidised terminals from their networks. Due to the vast price difference of products between subsidised and non-subsidised markets mobile terminals represent an attractive target to criminals. The result is that mobile terminals are under constant attack by hac...

Drug-use and drug-related criminal offending are among the greatest concerns of policy-makers, law-enforcement officials, scientists, physicians, and citizens alike. There is a growing interest on the part of all parties to examine the causes, possible correlations, and consequences of the drug-crime relationship. This research paper examines the conceptions regarding the drug-crime relationshi...

The establishment of two international ad hoc tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, and the creation of an International Criminal Court within the next fi ve years, has increased the need for archaeologists who can assist in the exhumation of individual and mass graves associated with war crimes and genocide throughout the world. This work examines the efforts of teams of archaeologis...

This chapter describes the state of technology for studying Internet crimes against children, specifically and . We begin by presenting a survey of relevant research articles that are related to the study of . This survey includes a discussion of our work on the classification of chat logs that contain or . Many commercial enterprises have developed to monitor these behaviors, and the latest ve...

Thieves, Thugs, and Neighborhood Poverty This paper develops a model of crime analyzing how such behavior is associated with individual and neighborhood poverty. The model shows that even under relatively minimal assumptions, a connection between individual poverty and both property and violent crimes will arise, and moreover, “neighborhood” effects can develop, but will differ substantially in...

For the successful monitoring and combatting of Serious Organised Economic Crime (SOEC) and fraud, further integration of Member States systems across Europe is needed. This paper describes a system for strategic intelligence management providing a more coherent and coordinated approach for detecting and deterring SOEC and fraud. The EMPRISES framework increases the effectiveness of communicati...

This study is concerned with understanding of the factors of aggregate, nonviolent and violent crime categories in Turkey for the period 1965-2009. The determinants of all crime categories are related to selected socio-economic factors. Bounds testing approach to cointegration is employed to test the existence of long-run relationship amongst the variables. Cointegration analysis yields the maj...