BACKGROUND The usual modes of incarceration have not been found to curb violent crimes significantly. A jail-based programme called the Resolve to Stop the Violence Project (RSVP) was created with the hypothesis that exposing men with a history of serious, recent and often multiple violent crimes to a certain specifiable set of social, cultural and psychological conditions would reduce the freq...

Some studies of assaults on intimate partners have found that most of the perpetrators are not violent outside the family, which suggests a specialized type of crime. However, other studies found domestic violence offenders tend to have extensive criminal histories. To further investigate the extent to which partner assaults are part of a more general pattern of criminal behavior or a specializ...

15 years after Brazil adopted one of Latin America's most progressive juvenile justice laws, substantially reflecting the guarantees contained in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), the country's juvenile detention centres continue to be grossly deficient. Many facilities are decaying, filthy, and dangerously overcrowded, failing to meet basic standards of health and hygiene (se...

Introduction: The association between criminality and psychiatric disorders has been extensively studied. most recent studies show that this appears to exist only in acute stages of the disorder. Adverse childhood events are also a risk factor violent antisocial behaviors. Methods/Objectives: A retrospective exploratory study was designed, including 91 men 19 women admitted Forensic Ward Coimbr...

English. This study aims to apply the sentiment analysis to a psycho-forensic context through the analysis of narrative transcriptions related to the crimes committed by violent detainees. We investigate the presence of psychopathy through the Psychopathic Personality Inventory-Revised (PPI-R). Psychopathy is a personality disorder that is characterized by emotional detachment, the lack of empa...

BACKGROUND In this prospective study, mentally disordered perpetrators of severe violent and/or sexual crimes were followed through official registers for 59 (range 8 to 73) months. The relapse rate in criminality was assessed, compared between offenders sentenced to prison versus forensic psychiatric care, and the predictive ability of various risk factors (criminological, clinical, and of str...

In this paper, we test the hypothesis that access to electronic payments may reduce crime. Our results suggest that there is a negative and significant statistical relationship between access to electronic payments and the incidence of economic crimes such as robbery and burglary, while electronic transactions do little to reduce the incidence of non-economic crimes such as homicide and rape. T...