Special Issue—Contemporary Issues in Brazilian Criminology

TODS Special Issues

The March 2004 issue of TODS should be in your mailbox (as well as available in cyberspace, at the ACM Digital Library) around the time you receive this issue of SIGMOD Record. This issue is a first, a special issue dedicated to extended versions of SIGMOD and PODS papers from the 2002 conference. This special issue opens the topic of invited papers from conferences, and indeed, the more genera...

Computational Criminology

In this report, we present our work done in spring 2011 on the UK crimes dataset. This dataset was first released in December 2010, and contains reports of crimes committed in England and Wales, with their type and location. We first perform some exploratory analysis on this data, by looking at the correlation of crime rates with some independent variables, such as the population density or the...

Community based rehabilitation: special issues.

The primary goal in the developing field of community based rehabilitation (CBR) for individuals with TBI / ABI is community participation and integration. At present, CBR is less than clearly defined and is represented by a set of interventions with varied types, degrees of clinical support and models of intervention that are conducted for a diverse and complex set of individuals, situations, ...

Issues and challenges in special care dentistry.

Biological Perspectives in Criminology

For several decades, mainstream criminology has been dominated by sociological and political perspectives. Although findings from these fields must not be discarded or underplayed, considered alone, they do not offer a complete assessment of the contributions to criminal behavior. Data currently being generated from numerous behavioral sciences, such as behavioral genetics, physiological psycho...