Criminological and legal aspects of usury crime.

Computer Crime: A Criminological Overview

This paper provides an overview of computer-related crime. Nine varieties of crime are considered: theft of services; communications in furtherance of criminal conspiracies; information piracy and forgery; the dissemination of offensive materials (including extortion threats); electronic money laundering; electronic vandalism and terrorism; telemarketing fraud; illegal interception; and electro...

Encyclopedia of Criminological Theory Neurology and Crime

Legal aspects of Shadow Banking

Shadow Banking system, as an investment method, while being an integral part of the supervised banking system, is a rival for banks and governance institutions in financing and oversight. As a result, its development has created a situation for regulated institutions, which leads to concerns about the legal and regulatory responsibilities of the banking and financial system for investment not g...

Encyclopedia of Criminological Theory Brain Abnormalities and Crime

Criminological appraisals of psychiatric explanations of crime: 1936-1950.

Until the 1920s most North American criminologists echoed the viewpoints of European scholars. The major criminological works had been written by the Italian positivists Cesare Lombroso, Enrico Ferri and Raffaele Garofalo all of whom portrayed the criminal as pathological, the product of physical or mental abnormalities. They attempted to reveal, through scientific experimentation and controlle...