CULTURAL PROPERTY CRIME IN SERBIA

Cultural Disorganization and Crime

8 . Drugs and property crime

During the late 1990s national rates of reported property and violent crime in Australia have been increasing (National Crime Statistics Unit 1997; Chilvers 1998; Cook & Leverett 1998), as have deaths from opioid overdoses. In 1996 there were 526 opioid-overdose fatalities, the majority of them involving males (Lynskey & Hall 1998). Alongside the overdose data a number of indicators from subgro...

Methadone maintenance and property crime

In Australia, as in other comparable countries, the link between heroin addiction and acquisitive crime has been well documented. Around 40% of males incarcerated in Long Bay Gaol for property offences report having used heroin (Dobinson and Ward, 1985), indicating that heroin use is far more common in this group than in community samples, in which reported rates of ever having used heroin are ...

Cultural Impacts on Electronic Publishing: Experience in Serbia

The paper discusses the linguistic influences on an Electronic Publishing infrastructure in an environment with a low-level of linguistic standardization. Essentially, in Serbia in the last half of the century (at least) publishing has been based on the following facts: 1. Two alphabetic systems are regularly in use with the possibility to mix both alphabets in the same document; 2. The various...

Exploring Spatial Patterns of Property Crime Risks in Changchun, China

Urban crime has increasingly become a major issue for Chinese cities. Using crime data collected at police precincts in 2008, the main aim of this research is to examine the spatial distribution of property crime which accounted for almost 82% of all crimes in the city of Changchun, and analyze the relationship between the spatial patterns of property crime and neighborhood characteristics. Sta...