Crime Prevention from the Cradle up

Onward from the cradle

This essay records a voyage of discovery from the "cradle of cell biology" to the present, focused on the biology of the oldest known cell organelle, the cilium. In the "romper room" of cilia and microtubule (MT) biology, the sliding MT hypothesis of ciliary motility was born. From the "summer of love," students and colleagues joined the journey to test switch-point mechanisms of motility. In t...

Evaluating crime prevention: Lessons from large-scale community crime prevention programs

Anthony Morgan and Peter Homel Foreword | The Australian Institute of Criminology has spent a number of years working with crime prevention agencies across Australia reviewing large-scale programs that involve the delivery of varying activities directed at the prevention of crime. Taken as a whole, this experience has shown that, despite good intentions and aspirations to evidence-based practic...

A warning from the cradle?

LE TAUX DE MORTALITÉ INFANTILE est généralement reconnu comme un indicateur valable de la santé de la population d’un pays. Comme le signalent les Drs K.S. Joseph et Michael S. Kramer (page 535), après avoir diminué constamment pendant des années, le taux au Canada a augmenté légèrement de 1992 à 1993 et il est resté stable en 1994. Ils font état également d’une hausse marquée du taux de naissa...

From their cradle to your grave: how child abuse and dissociation drive violent crime.

Crime Prevention Techniques and Crime Prevention in Turkey

Conceptually, security concept is always tend to expand its own limitations. Current global events, emerging new situations and resulting needs in this area often make the changes obligatory and inevitable. Today, the fight against crime and criminality follows a path which aims to identify and clarify the crime begining from the emergence of the criminal activity until the capture and detentio...