BACKGROUND Although crime victimisation is as prevalent in psychiatric patients as crime perpetration (and possibly more so), few European figures for it are available. We therefore assessed its one-year prevalence and incident rates in Dutch severely mentally ill outpatients, and compared the results with victimisation rates in the general population. METHOD This multisite epidemiological su...

INTRODUCTION To investigate relationships between ambient temperatures and violent crimes to determine whether those relationships are consistent across different crime categories and whether they are best described as increasing linear functions, or as curvilinear functions that decrease beyond some temperature threshold. A secondary objective was to consider the implications of the observed r...

This chapter examines the role of social inequality in crime and deviance by specifying a social psychological theory of the causal mechanisms by which inequality is associated with crime. We begin by noting that the powerful have more input into the content of criminal law, a point illustrated by the relatively soft penalties for white collar and corporate crimes compared to the harsh penaltie...

fear of crime is a very prevalent issue today. it challenges the safety of cities. for this reason it has gained considerable attention among the sociologists and criminologists over the last 20 years. whilst men experiencing relatively high rates of violence, they report their fear of crime less than women. in the contrary women have a much greater fear of crime than men, but are victimized le...

Tobacco shops, medical marijuana dispensaries (MMD), and off-sale alcohol outlets are legal and prevalent in South Los Angeles, California-a high-crime, low-income urban community of color. This research is the first to explore the geographic associations between these three legal drug outlets with surrounding crime and violence in a large low-income urban community of color. First, spatial buf...

with a population of urban sprawl, crime and crime rates have also increased significantly. the increase in iran, especially in large cities has been remarkable. increase in crimes not only has faced the criminal justice system in the metropolitan area of shiraz with huge challenges, but also it has had its own cultural, social, economic and even political risks and tensions, costing the societ...

BACKGROUND This study sought to examine the associations between indices of socio-economic deprivation in childhood and later involvement in crime. METHOD Data were gathered as part of the Christchurch Health and Development Study. In this project a cohort of 1,265 children born in Christchurch in 1977 have been studied from birth to age 21 years. The measures collected included: self-reporte...

In August 2006, the Italian government released one-third of the nation’s prison inmates via a national collective pardon. We test for a discontinuous break in national crime rates corresponding to the mass release. We also test for the effect of the return of the incarceration rate to its predicted steady state level on national crime rates. Finally, we exploit regional variation in prison rel...

Title of dissertation: CAN DRUG COURTS IMPROVE PUBLIC SAFETY? EXPLORING THE IMPACTS OF DRUG COURT ON CRIME Kathryn Marie Zafft, Doctor of Philosophy, 2014 Dissertation directed by: Professor Denise C. Gottfredson Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice Drug courts represent one of the largest and most widespread criminal justice programs specifically developed to provide treatment and in...

This year, 2004, will see political realignments that will affect gun-owner rights for years to come. The current Bush administration has been a period of inertia in terms of advancing new controls, but this is largely due to the administration being distracted by the War on Terror. During his campaign for the presidency in 2000, Bush favored extending the “assault-weapons” ban of 1994 that sun...