Recent reports suggest that the illicit use of prescription medicines, particularly pharmaceutical opioids (e.g. oxycodone), is increasing in Australia. This raises questions about how these drugs are channelled out of the medical system for unsanctioned use. The aim of the current study was to use police data to examine: (a) whether this increase is reflected in police crime data; (b) some of ...

One of the most basic questions in criminology is how to measure the key outcome variable of offending. The two most common measurement methods are to use official records of arrests/convictions or self-reports of offending. These two methods have different advantages and problems. For example, official records include only the ‘tip of the iceberg’ of offending, but the offences are recorded qu...

every society is governed by certain rules (the law), customs, norms and values; and these are intricately crucial to the maintenance of public morality. invariably, there is a public morality which provides the cement of any human society; the law, especially the criminal law, must regard it as a primary function to reflect and maintain this public morality. criminal codes lay down various off...

AIM To assess alcohol-related harms and offences in New Zealand from 1990 to 2003, a period of alcohol policy liberalization, that included the lowering of the purchase age from 20 to 18 years in 1999. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Time trend analyses were carried out on routinely collected data for prosecutions for driving with excess alcohol; alcohol-involved vehicle crashes (all and fat...

1. Abstract This paper looks at the application of data mining techniques, principally the Multi-Layer Perceptron and Self Organising Map, to the recognition of burglary offences committed by a network of offenders. The aim is to suggest a list of currently undetected crimes that may be attributed to one or more members of the network and improve on the time taken to complete the task manually ...

This paper describes the implementation of a prototype installation for automatic detection of traffic offences with the use of video camera real time analysis. In this paper, we focus on the technical aspect of the installation as well as on the possibilities to implement algorithms to detect offenders. The project of the installation assumed the use of low-cost series of components and reduci...

As part of a larger project evaluating aspects of offender profiling, an initial study was undertaken of the geographic aspects of approximately 300 sexual offences carried out by 79 stranger rapists. The objective was to focus further research on the topic into potentially useful channels, but information thought to be of immediate use to investigating officers was also produced. It was ascert...

Despite the fact that the group of sexual offenders remains a population which is still difficult to study, the results of current research are considered novel and interesting. Surprisingly, the very old descriptions applying to paraphilia, which is considered to be one of the reasons of sexual offences, appear to be accurate, especially in the context of similarities between impulsivity and p...

AIMS Our aim was to compare the weapons used in lethal or potentially lethal violence against parents according to the age (adolescent vs. adult) of the offender and victim (mother vs. father) of the offence. METHOD All forensic psychiatric examination statements of male offenders who had offended violently against one of their parents during 1973-2004 in Finland (n=192) were reviewed retrosp...