BACKGROUND Road trauma is a leading cause of death and injury in young people. Traffic offences are common, but their importance as a risk indicator for subsequent road trauma is unknown. This cohort study assessed whether severe road trauma could be predicted by a history of prior traffic offences. METHODOLOGY AND PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Clinical data of all adult road trauma patients admitted to...

INTRODUCTION Current literature states that dental medicine can have an important role in diagnosing situations of domestic violence, namely cases of intimate partner violence, since many of the injuries that occur in this context concern the head and neck areas. The aim of this study was to characterize oral injuries in these cases in a Portuguese population, and to determine the kind of perma...

OBJECTIVE This paper tests hypotheses based on Garland and Dougher's (1990) formulation of the "victim to victimizer" relationship which is a social learning theory etiological approach to adolescent sexual offending. METHOD Two hundred sixteen adolescent sexually victimized sexual offenders and 93 adolescent sexually victimized nonsexual offending delinquents from three Michigan sexual offen...

Offenders are more likely than non‐offenders to be victims, and victims are more likely than non‐victims to be offenders. So far, the overlap between offenders and victims is not well understood in criminology, and in the economics of crime this stylized empirical fact is even widely ignored. One of the major limiting problems seems to be the lack of adequate individual data. This paper tries t...

Twenty cases, 14 infanticides and 6 neonaticides committed between 1989 2020 by biological mothers were analysed using Smallest Space Analysis for the presence of themes. Three themes associated with offender motivation identified: Desperation, Disturbance Rejection. Desperation theme included variables suggesting mother crime as a result distress or perceived necessity. suggested behind offenc...

Romance fraud uses the guise of a genuine relationship to deceive victim into transferring often large amounts money an offender/s. has been in top three categories financial loss for Australian victims over past decade, and this is trend mirrored internationally. However, recent years there convergence romance investment approaches. Terms such as baiting, cryptorom ‘pig butchering' have all em...

In the present research, we examine how culture influences individuals’ reactions to financial offenders. We hypothesized that horizontal individualists deploy increased active (i.e., punishment-oriented) whereas vertical collectivists passive condemning beliefs) Moreover, would react stronger a offender when an offense has instrumental related material costs) as opposed symbolic one’s self-ima...