The present study investigates the impact of the experience of role playing a violent character in a video game on attitudes towards violent crimes and criminals. People who played the violent game were found to be more acceptable of crimes and criminals compared to people who did not play the violent game. More importantly, interaction effects were found such that people were more acceptable o...

The biological basis to crime assumes that individuals who commit criminal acts are in some way different to the general population who does not commit such acts. This idea is appealing and has been so historically. For example, Lombroso in 1876 argued that criminals were a separate species between modern and primitive humans. Research has become more sophisticated over time, and the search for...

In urban transportation networks, crime diffuses as criminals travel through the networks and look for illicit opportunities. It is important to first model this diffusion in order to recommend actions or patrol policies to control the diffusion of such crime. Previously, game theory has been used for such patrol policy recommendations, but these applications of game theory for security have no...

In urban transportation networks, crime diffuses as criminals travel through the networks and look for illicit opportunities. It is important to first model this diffusion in order to recommend actions or patrol policies to control the diffusion of such crime. Previously, game theory has been used for such patrol policy recommendations, but these applications of game theory for security have no...

In the modern era, internet plays crucial role in the human life. Now that time it is a backbone of human life. In Twentyfirst century criminals increasingly rely on these technologies and these advance technologies are also increase day by day criminals and their criminals operations. These criminals can easily lift to Internet to carry out such type of traditional crime such as sex traffickin...