This study analyzed a sample of 348 college students to examine the role that criminal history and Mexican ethnicity play in predicting intimate partner violence. Respondents who committed crimes in the past (before the age of 15) had a higher probability of severely physically assaulting a partner than those respondents who had committed crime later in life (after the age of 15). A history of ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE We investigated the clinical and criminal characteristics of patients with epilepsy who had committed violent crimes in order to understand the mechanism of violence and to prevent future criminal activity. METHODS We reviewed medical and legal reports of criminals with epilepsy who were incarcerated in the Korean National Forensic Hospital between October 2007 and Sept...

The violent behavior of adolescents in our society is a topic of enormous interest and concern, limited data and knowledge, and, unfortunately, substantial misinformation and distortion. In 1990, some 16.3% (1,749,343) of the total number of arrests in the United States were of youth 17 years of age or younger, and 5.5% (95,677) of these arrests were for violent crimes. Of incarcerated youth (f...

Conventional crimes, namely: conventional/national crimes are against life, property and honor that cause both physical psychological harm, whether committed in ordinary ways or a new dimension, which occur within the country. The effect of Covid-19 Pandemic Period on Increasing Crime Legal Area ​​the West Sumatra Regional Police is reduction their moral values ​​and social economic conditions ...

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...

The past decade in the United States has been characterized by a widening in the distribution of wage income. While much research has attempted to uncover the causes of these earnings trends, much less is known about their impact upon social and economic factors. This study examines evidence for links between changes in distribution of wage income and criminal activity. Using extreme bounds ana...

This article presents rates of criminal offending in the life history of male and female students at universities in 32 nations who participated in the International Dating Violence Study. The measure of criminal behavior has acceptable coefficients of reliability in most of the national settings, and there is evidence indicating construct validity. National differences in the percent of male s...

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 ...