human domination over time and space and, consequently, globalization of crime has led to new opportunities of global nature to commit crime. globalized crimes occur in an organized fashion to bring profit to and serve violent purposes of criminals around the world, threatening human dignity, safety, and fundamental rights, compromising international security, and denying humans of their right ...

Part of this debate concerns the purposes and justifications for such efforts. Some argue that the . enforcement activity is justified simply because laws against drug use exis, and it is the clear obligation of the State to enforce the laws. Others see the laws and improved enforcement as justified by their impact on levels of illicit drug use.' Still others see drug enforcement as a potential...

Antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) diagnoses have demonstrated good reliability and validity in male offenders. However, there is a paucity of research assessing utilization of emotion cues in ASPD individuals and the extent to which correlates of ASPD in males generalize to females. This investigation examined emotion utilization in incarcerated men and women with and without ASPD using a ...

It is known that many male juvenile delinquents commit violent crimes while intoxicated with flunitrazepam (FZ), often in combination with alcohol or other drugs. We have also noted the combined abuse of FZ with, for example, alcohol in male forensic psychiatric patients. Our objective was to study violent behavior, impulsive decision-making, and amnesia in male forensic psychiatric patients wh...

Tobacco shops, medical marijuana dispensaries (MMD), and off-sale alcohol outlets are legal and prevalent in South Los Angeles, California-a high-crime, low-income urban community of color. This research is the first to explore the geographic associations between these three legal drug outlets with surrounding crime and violence in a large low-income urban community of color. First, spatial buf...

BACKGROUND Patients with a severe mental illness (SMI) are more likely to experience victimisation than the general population. AIMS To examine the prevalence of victimisation in people with SMI, and the relationship between symptoms, treatment facility and indices of substance use/misuse and perpetration, in comparison with the general population. METHOD Victimisation was assessed among bo...

This project describes the psychopathology and personality findings in 14 juveniles who committed sexual homicide. These incarcerated youth were assessed using a structured interview, a personality assessment instrument, correctional files review, and an author-designed clinical interview. Nearly all of these youth met DSM-III-R conduct disorder criteria at the time of the crime. The presence o...

Since the mid-1980’s, the rise in serious urban violence has had at least two effects. First, it has threatened the lives of urban residents, especially youths, and the social and economic fabric of the communities in which they live. Second, it has aggravated public doubts about the ability of government to maintain the quality of urban life. More specifically, these doubts have raised questio...

This article presents the results of life stories and answers to questionnaires young people who have served judicial sentence living in an open regime educational group Catalonia for crimes child-to-parent violence. The analysis identifies spaces, moments processes that participants considered enhance or limit empowerment. research concludes this favours development empowering personal skills,...