Public security is an important issue for a society. With the massive increase in electronic data availability over the last few years, characterising and predicting crime has become a task that can be approached using different data mining techniques. However, previous studies have concentrated on the spatial patterning of crimes without investigating potential predictors or causes. In this pa...

The flourishing synergy arising between organized crimes and the Internet has increased the insecurity of the digital world. How hackers frame their actions? What factors encourage and energize their behavior? These are very important but highly underresearched questions. We draw upon literatures on psychology, economics, international relation and warfare to propose a framework that addresses ...

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...

This study aims to clarify that the term “economic crime” refers a modern set of crimes, posing harm legal interest Penal Law has unsought protect, whereas “Economic Law” goes beyond notion crimes idea establishing special legislation. The came number conclusions and recommendations, most significant which is need repeal Paragraph C Article 3 Economic Crimes No. 11 1993 its amendments, identifi...

Our study is based on the traditional Becker-Ehrlich deterrence model, but we analyze the model in the face of currently discussed factors of crime like demographic changes, youth unemployment, and income inequality. We use a panel of the German Laender (states) that allows us to exploit different experiences in densely and sparsely populated areas as well as areas in East and West Germany. Our...

Crime supply functions are reestimated in this paper using data corrected for victim underreporting. It is found in both a meanvariance specification and a conventional crime supply function which includes measures of the offender's gains and losses involved in property crimes that certainty and severity of punishment still deter. When correction for underreporting is made, the effects on the r...

We investigate the relationships between gun ownership and murders, reported rapes, and robberies. We proxy gun ownership by the number of subscriptions to the gun magazine Handguns Magazine and accommodate the count nature of our data by analyzing them with a multivariate Poisson-lognormal model. For most of our analyses, we find that the correlation between today’s number of guns and future c...

Despite some ambiguous periods in Russia’s history, its record in affirming the foundations of humanism in international relations is unquestionable. The new democratic Russia, which is faithful to traditions of humanism and mercy, is making strong efforts to defend victims of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. The experience of the international community in combating genocide,...