Crime e castigo: vicissitudes do supereu DOI - 10.5752/P.1678-9523.2014v20n2p260

'e-crime Solutions and Crime Displacement'

Do more guns cause less crime?

The main argument of a recent book by John Lott is summarized in the title: More Guns, Less Crime [26]. There are three parts to this argument: 1. that there were more guns 2. that there was less crime 3. that more guns caused less crime Lott’s argument depends on all three parts being true. If any one of the parts is incorrect, the entire argument fails. In fact, as I will show in the next thr...

Do Teen Births Keep American Crime High?

The United States has a high teenage birth rate relative to other developed countries. Children of teenagers experience more difficult childhoods than children born to other mothers, and hence may be more likely to commit crimes subsequently. I assess to what extent international patterns in teen birth rates can explain why the United States had the highest crime rates of developed countries in...

Cyber Crime Effecting E-commerce Technology

The early struggles with the internet was finding a way to safely buy and sell goods or transfer funds using computer and telecommunication networks. The goal was to enable e-commerce by providing a safe, convenient and immediate payment system on the internet. But internet is notorious for giving its users a feeling of anonymity. The inadequate security results in major damage. Now a days a nu...

How Do They See Us? The Vicissitudes of Metaperception in Intergroup Relations

What’s the Issue? .....................................................................................................64 Background: From Stereotypes to Metastereotypes .............................................65 Theoretical Framework: A New Typology of Intergroup Beliefs ..........................67 Research on Attributed Beliefs: Pessimism and Global Reactions .......................71 A...