The night-time economy (NTE) provides many opportunities for crime as there is an abundance of potential victims who are often intoxicated and clustered in a small geographical area. Previous research on NTE violence has primarily focused assault. However, other offences also common, such robbery. This study NTE-related robbery using police recorded data relating to 1624 personal robberies (inc...

In the usual approaches to planning in AI, a planning agent is provided with a description of some state of aaairs, a goal state, and charged with the task of discovering (or performing) some sequence of actions to achieve that goal. Reasoning about goals is non-trivial, because: Goals are context-dependent. When a robot's goal to bring me some cooee cannot be achieved, for example because the ...

We propose a method by which to analyze silhouettes and recognize a classic holdup position of armed robbery. In such a situation, one actor levels his or her arm while another actor raises his or her arm(s) into the air. We attempt this by first segmenting the skeleton of the silhouette into separate pieces of the body, then identifying the positions of the arms.

Introducing a new hobby for other people may inspire them to join with you. Reading, as one of mutual hobby, is considered as the very easy hobby to do. But, many people are not interested in this hobby. Why? Boring is the reason of why. However, this feel actually can deal with the book and time of you reading. Yeah, one that we will refer to break the boredom in reading is choosing i way robb...

illicit drug abuse continues to be a growing problem worldwide and a serious hazard to humanity. the crimes associated with drug abuse include sale or possession of drugs; property crimes or prostitution to support drug habits; and violent crimes reflecting out-of-control behavior. in fact, an offender drug use is involved in more than half of all violent crimes and in 60 to 80 percent of child...

BACKGROUND Research has shown that robberies in the workplace, in particular those in the bank sector are traumatising events for many employees. However, research in the acute sequelae of bank robberies is limited. OBJECTIVE AND DESIGN The present study explores the prevalence and predictors of acute stress disorder (ASD) in a questionnaire survey of bank employees following a bank robbery. ...