Introduction The countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEECs) and the Russian Federation have all embarked, with varying degrees of success, upon significant economic changes from centrally-planned, partly ‘closed’ economies, to more open free-market economies. Consequently, free-market systems for raising revenues for public sector activities have had to be developed and implemented. Under ...

Urban Environment planning can prevent abnormal behaviors, crime and felony in urban places by identifying effective local features and environmental conditions, along with other actions, so that the felon would have much less opportunities for committing criminal and unlawful acts in urban areas. This article is part of the outcomes of a study project called “formulation of environmental crite...

Crime maps are becoming significant tools in crime and justice. Advances in the areas of information technology, computing and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have opened new opportunities for the use of (computerized) mapping in crime control and prevention programs. Crime maps are also valuable for the study of the ecology and the locational aspects of crime. Maps enable areas of unusual...

he persistence of illegal activity throughout human history and some of its apparent regularities have long attracted the attention of economists. For example, Adam Smith (1776 [1937], p. 670) observed that crime and the demand for protection from crime are both motivated by the accumulation of property. William Paley (1785 [1822]) presented a penetrating analysis of factors responsible for dif...

My subject is “crime,” and this book is a manual of its body. A manual of “crime” in quotation marks (a manual of crime and quotation marks), because I use the word not in its legal sense, but rather in all senses of the term. And because my field is fiction: sexual, racial, social, and economic “crime tales,” tales of professions, trades, and states. Those that form The Corpus Delicti: A Manua...

Cost to society, scarcity of resources and effectiveness are recurrent if not omnipresent themes in scholarly analyses of the criminal justice system. In this article Professor Noam offers an economic analysis ofjudicial dispositions in criminal cases. After employing a mathematical model. calculus and statistical illustrations, Professor Noam concludes that the phenomenon of plea-bargaining in...