Some studies of assaults on intimate partners have found that most of the perpetrators are not violent outside the family, which suggests a specialized type of crime. However, other studies found domestic violence offenders tend to have extensive criminal histories. To further investigate the extent to which partner assaults are part of a more general pattern of criminal behavior or a specializ...

Objectives Decades of empirical research demonstrate that crime is concentrated at a range of spatial scales, including street segments. Further, the degree of clustering at particular geographic units remains noticeably stable and consistent; a finding that Weisburd (Criminology 53:133–157, 2015) has recently termed the ‘law of crime concentration at places’. Such findings suggest that the fut...

This article provides a legal analysis of the composition robbery, provided for in Article 162 Criminal Code Russian Federation, as crime against property. The characteristic signs robbery most dangerous form theft are studied. problematic issues differentiation and related crimes considered. specifics qualification committed by group persons prior agreement investigated. Some analyzed aspects ...

The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) is a major crime survey for the United States. The survey collects data on several types of crimes, including the broad categories of violent crime and property crime. The 2010 redesign of the NCVS can potentially improve the efficiency of the survey if the level of crime can be predicted well by external data. Previously, we reported initial succe...

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The purpose of this bulletin is to review research exploring the relationship between alcohol and crime, and to examine patterns of alcohol-related crime arising from New South Wales police records. The number of assault, offensive behaviour and malicious damage to property incidents flagged by police as being alcohol-related are included in this analysis. Characteristics of alcoholrelated crim...

This paper examines the causality between income inequality and crime in Malaysia for the period 1973-2003. Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bounds testing procedure is employed to (1) analyze the impact of income inequality on various categories of criminal activities as well as to (2) analyze the impact of various categories of criminal activities on income inequality. Interestingly our ...