Social Change, Institutional Anomie and Serious Property Crime in Transitional Russia

Social Change and Anomie: A Cross-National Study

Economic change, crime, and mortality crisis in Russia: regional analysis.

OBJECTIVE To identify which aspects of socioeconomic change were associated with the steep decline in life expectancy in Russia between 1990 and 1994. DESIGN Regression analysis of regional data, with percentage fall in male life expectancy as dependent variable and a range of socioeconomic measures reflecting transition, change in income, inequity, and social cohesion as independent variable...

Prescription for change: accessing medication in transitional Russia.

BACKGROUND Many Russians experienced difficulty in accessing prescription medication during the widespread health service disruption and rapid socio-economic transition of the 1990s. This paper examines trends and determinants of access in Russia during this period. METHODS Data were from nine rounds (1994-2004) of the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey, a 38-centre household panel survey. ...

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 ...