Part of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention’s Crimes Against Children Series, this Bulletin describes juveniles’ risks for property victimization and the nature of such crimes. Unfortunately, property crimes against juveniles are seldom reported to the police. In fact, a larceny or theft perpetrated against a juvenile is three times less likely to be reported than one for ...

The growth of telecommunications and electronic commerce has led to a growing commercial market for digital encryption technologies. Business needs encryption to protect intellectual property and to establish secure links with their partners, suppliers, and customers. Banks need it to ensure the confidentiality and authenticity of financial transactions. Law enforcement needs it to stop those u...

in economic crimes, the criminal outcome, i.e. spoiling the economic system of the nation and extensive profiteering motivation are the two indexes suggestive of the difficulties and challenges present in the process of prevention of such crimes. the preventive measures, following the said indexes, should be both extensive and motivation-confounding. in this article some of the situational prev...

In particular, the study aims to gain an understanding of who the perpetrators of violence against women and girls are, and why they commit these violent crimes. In addition, the study investigates the psychosocial factors that contribute to the commission of these violent crimes, and generates data that it is hoped will aid the relevant authorities and stakeholders in designing and developing ...

Most studies of spatial colocation patterns of crime and land-use features in geographical information science and environmental criminology employ global measures, potentially obscuring spatial inhomogeneity. This study investigated the relationships of three types of crime with 22 types of land-use in Wuhan, China. First, global colocation patterns were examined. Then, local colocation patter...

Identifying locations susceptible to crime and the reasons for its occurrence have often been based on the "gut" feelings of police officers and others involved. As a result, those crimes where offences are highly visible may be over policed, whereas those locations truly requiring attention, receive little. In order for crime mapping to be truly meaningful the data held by police should not be...

introduction: there are many factors affecting crime rates. economic factors are one of them. also, nature of crimes and the effects of economic factors on them are different. economic crimes have a specific importance in economics of crime. researchers in iran don’t investigate the determinants of crime, especially economic crimes. thus, in this paper we investigate the short- and long run eff...

CONTEXT Some states prohibit the purchase of handguns by persons convicted of selected misdemeanor crimes, but most do not. California has denied handgun purchases by violent misdemeanants since 1991; the effectiveness of these policies is unknown. OBJECTIVE To determine the risk factors for new criminal activity among violent misdemeanants who seek to purchase handguns and whether denial of ...

Our central aim is the development of decision support systems based on appropriate technology for such purposes as profiling single and series of crimes or offenders, and matching and predicting crimes. This paper presents research in this area for the high-volume crime of Burglary Dwelling House, with examples taken from the authors’ own work a United Kingdom police force. Discussion and expe...