Currently, the problems associated with growth of crime in field information and telecommunication technologies are becoming increasingly important. Criminals who commit theft regularly improve their criminal skills, using activities not only modern software tools, but also social engineering methods — certain techniques, as a result which victim either independently transfers his money to acco...

Existing research suggests that victimization risk is higher among urban residents. Violence against women a notable exception in this trend. While the literature does indicate rural are at equal for violent victimization, it not differentiate between types of non-urban spaces (exurbs, suburbs, small towns, dispersed rural). We use five-category measure rural-urban location articulated land to ...

Computer-based communication (CBC) has become an inevitable aspect of our infrastructure and a lasting alternative to face-to-face conversations. Yet, CBC (e.g. video conferencing) is not common practice for victim-offender mediation (VOM). Based on eighteen semi-structured interviews with adult victims, offenders mediators, we provide heuristic assessment applicability in VOM. Interviewees ass...

Criminal Victims, Victimized Criminals, or Both? A Deeper Look at the Victim-Offender Overlap Offenders are more likely than non-offenders to be victims, and victims are more likely than non-victims to be offenders. The overlap between offenders and victims is not well understood in criminology, and in the economics of crime the stylized empirical fact is even widely ignored. The paper gives a ...

In this piece I explore the practical and theoretical conflicts that might surface when diversion movement victims’ rights intersect. focus on two possible sites of tension: victim input into offer victim’s right to receive restitution as a term diversion. Protocols give victims greater voice in justice process have been mainstay burgeoning for past several decades, but argue those protocols mu...

This exploratory study examined 51 participants convicted of an Internet-initiated sex offense in which they attempted to entice an adolescent into a sexual relationship using an Internet chat room. All participants were convicted of a sex offense and subject to an evaluation as a part of sentencing requirements in Colorado. Clinical and behavioral data were obtained from each subject's offense...