The paper intends to contribute to a better understanding of the interactions between criminality, economic performance and social cohesion. We try to achieve this aim by evaluating the existing economic and criminological research and by carrying out own empirical investigation on the basis of international panel data sets from different levels of regional aggregation. Our empirical results wi...

Traditionally the identification and apprehension of active serious offenders has relied on information from the public, the targeting of ‘known’ offenders and current knowledge of offending patterns. More recently, the method of offender self-selection has been offered as an additional identification tool, where certain minor infractions have been found to be ‘triggers’ for uncovering serious ...

One of the most important considerations when investigating a serious sexual offence is to find if it can be linked to other offences. If this can be done then there is a considerable dividend in terms additional evidence and new lines of enquiry. The central problem is the construction of a satisfactory typology of these crimes, but little progress has been made. It is the authors’ contention ...

The sexual abuse of children represents a remarkable proportion of about 25% of all sexual offences. Data from 20 male pedophilic persons seen at the occasion of forensic psychiatric assessment were analysed. Personality traits as measured by the widely used standardized personality inventar FPI version A1 were dominated by signs of psychic inhibition and altered somatic wellness. Intelligence ...

This article focuses on the problems faced by researchers carrying out participant observation in fields where the committal of criminal offences is the norm. Can participation in criminal activity by a researcher be justified on the grounds that it is necessary to prevent the distortion of the field? Alternatively, can the difficulties in gaining and maintaining access in such spheres excuse s...

reflected in the low numbers of successful convictions across jurisdictions. Research conducted in the last 20 years has highlighted that the majority of victims of sexual assault are female, most perpetrators are male, and a very small percentage of victims report this crime to the police.1 Media portrayals of ‘real rape’ present it as involving women being attacked outside their home, at nigh...

in most legal systems of the world, the rule of multi-title offences is an accepted one whereby the punishment is the most serious when an act can come under a number of offence titles. however, it is subtly related to some other legal concepts such as specificity, contradiction, inclusion, appropriation and forcive judges. in most of time, distinguish between them is confused which can have se...

Links between child sexual exploitation (CSE) and youth offending should be better recognised, according to these preliminary research findings from the UK. Data from a leading CSE service provider and Youth Offending Team were analysed for the period 2001-2010 inclusive. Of CSE victims, 40 percent had offending records and recidivism rates were high. Together they committed 1586 offences - 5 p...

tive of ethical, moral and cultural conclusions which changes in response to public awareness and medicolegal prompting. In 1976, in the case of Morgan1, ‘no’ was ‘yes’. In November 1976 the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 19762 made ‘no’ finally ‘no’. This was not serendipity. In the case of Morgan, a raped woman was said to have consented because the rapists believed she was consenting. This ...

This paper proposes an identification framework of the possible criminal offences charges based on textual criminal cases of the Civil Law system. The framework is constructed as the model, devised as a multi-stage based on the defined charges structure in criminal law codes. The first stage is to modularly identify type of action which is designed based on the offences charges abstractly categ...