German crime films usually only find wide international circulation when they deal with either the two World Wars or country’s unique position during Cold War. Victoria (Sebastian Schipper, 2015) is an exception. The film, shot in one continuous take, tells story of a young woman from Madrid who meets four local Berliners outside nightclub middle night and ends up robbing private bank them. Wit...

Aim The present study aimed to study the associations between substance use patterns and types of crimes in prisoners with substance use problems, and specifically whether substance use patterns were different in violent offenders. Methods Interview data of prisoners with substance use problems (N=4,202, mean age 33.5 years, SD 9.8), derived from the Addiction Severity Index, were run against...

Crimes against the historically marginalized Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (SC/ST) by the upper castes in India represent an extreme form of prejudice and discrimination. In this paper, we investigate the effect of changes in relative material standards of living between the SC/STs and upper castes as measured by the ratio of consumption expenditures of SC/STs to that of upper castes on...

The relationship between vegetation, transportation networks, and crime has been under debate. Vegetation has been positively correlated with fear of crime; however, the actual correlation between vegetation and occurrences of crime is uncertain. Transportation networks have also been connected with crime occurrence but their impact on crime tends to vary over different circumstances. By conduc...

Using spatial data mining techniques, we analyze car-related crimes such as auto theft, auto parts theft, and breaking into a car in the area of Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto City. The strategy of natural surveillance proposed by Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) is taken into consideration as visibility attributes. From the viewpoint of risk discovery, we do not employ ordinary associ...

For a complete list and the full text of the papers in the Trends and Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice series, visit the AIC web site at: Under-reporting of crime to police means not only that police crime records may underestimate the extent of particular crimes but that valuable resources and crime prevention strategies may be aimed at certain crimes because they are reported more frequen...