Exposure to violence in childhood is associated with aggression in adulthood. The high level of community violence in Jamaica is likely to expose Jamaican children to violence. There has been no detailed study of the exposure of Jamaican children to violence in their daily lives. Some 1674 urban 11-12-year-old children, previously part of a national birth cohort study, completed a questionnaire...

The nation of Nigeria recently experienced unprecedented violence occasioned by the activities Special Anti- Robbery Squad, popularly known as SARS. This tactical Police unit charged with onerous responsibility dealing violent crimes such car-jerking, armed robbery, kidnapping, and sundry allegedly became a terror against Nigerians. They were accused brutality, rights abuse, undue criminal prof...

RESPONSE: The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department created an International Relations Unit to assist in developing problem-solving initiatives targeting the international community. A multifaceted approach including building tenant-management relationships, a CPTED survey guided physical changes to the complex, and police presence was increased through bike and foot patrols. Additionally, mo...

Angel (1968) hypothesized that street robberies were more likely to occur at intermediate levels of pedestrian traffic and less likely to occur at either low or high levels. The present study examines this hypothesis using recent data on platform robberies and passenger densities for 206 stations in the New York City Subway. Contrary to Angel's contention, the incidence of subway robberies was ...

BACKGROUND A sharp reduction in heroin supply in Australia in 2001 was followed by a large but transient increase in cocaine use among injecting drug users (IDU) in Sydney. This paper assesses whether the increase in cocaine use among IDU was accompanied by increased rates of violent crime as occurred in the United States in the 1980s. Specifically, the paper aims to examine the impact of incre...

Abstract This article seeks the essence and dynamics of crime phenomenon in municipalities State Rio de Janeiro. The approach is statistical econometric, using Principal Component Analysis Granger Causality Analysis. data obtained from Public Security Institute Janeiro (ISP/RJ) comprise 47 variables cover period 2003 to 2018. hypothesis that integrated, complex, dynamic, according Theory Instit...