Criminological Aspects of Organized Crime in Albania

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

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...

Organized Crime Goes Cyber

Policing organized crime

Until a few decades ago, the police were mainly a reactive bureaucratic organization that moved from one criminal event to the next, according to the degree to which the outside world required its services. Since then the police have abandoned the emphasis on law enforcement with regards to petty crime and public order. More recently the police have developed community policing as an important ...