This paper investigates the effect of early exposure to neighborhood crime on subsequent criminal behavior of youth exploiting a unique natural experiment between 1986 and 1998 when refugee immigrants to Denmark were assigned to neighborhoods quasi-randomly. We find strong evidence that the share of young people convicted for crimes, in particular violent crimes, in the neighborhood increases c...

This article examines the nature of petty crimes committed by sixteenth century Aberdonian women and the impact they had on burgh society. The evidence presented here challenges the notion that the burgh court charged women with a much more narrow range of criminal activities than men. Over a period of roughly 50 years (15411591), the Aberdeen Council Register and Baillie Court Books record nea...

This chapter examines the role of social inequality in crime and deviance by specifying a social psychological theory of the causal mechanisms by which inequality is associated with crime. We begin by noting that the powerful have more input into the content of criminal law, a point illustrated by the relatively soft penalties for white collar and corporate crimes compared to the harsh penaltie...

Nowadays, cyber crimes are increasing and have affected large organizations with highly sensitive information. Consequently, the affected organizations spent more resources analyzing the cyber crimes rather than detecting and preventing these crimes. Network forensics plays an important role in investigating cyber crimes; it helps organizations resolve cyber crimes as soon as possible without i...

This paper investigates the prevalence of cyber crimes in Ghana and its impact on ICT adoption. Through a qualitative approach, we explore efforts by organizations and organs of government in Ghana towards curtailing cyber crimes in terms of apprehension, prosecution, reporting, and law enforcement. Findings from our research showed that although awareness of cyber crimes is on the increase, th...

OBJECTIVE The hypothesis of a lunar influence on human abnormal behavior is still widespread, although research has led to conflicting findings. Therefore, a population-based study to assess the influence of lunar phases on violent crimes was conducted. METHODS The study included all serious crimes of battery (aggravated assaults) committed in Middle Franconia (Bavaria, Germany) between 1999 ...

Email spam: unsolicited emails for the purpose of advertisement or committing fraud. Phishing: electronic fraud based on social engineering. Phisher: fraudsters who commit phishing crimes. Phishing site: web sites created by phishers to steal sensitive information from users. Anti-phishing: efforts taken from multiple perspectives to combat phishing crimes. Machine learning: the design and deve...

Due to rapid development of technology and increasing use of vehicles, license plate recognition system has numerous applications. In present world, crimes are increasing day by day with a rapid speed and criminals use vehicles in crimes. When we go at a crowded place, we see that people does not follow traffic rules during driving due to which many road accidents occur. So we have designed a l...