Background: This study aimed to examine the number of latent classes of criminal intent that exist among prisoners and to look at the associations with recidivism, number of police arrests, type of offending (robbery, violent offences, murder, and multiple offences), and age. Participants and Procedure: Latent class analysis was used to identify homogeneous subgroups of prisoners based on their...

Background & Aims of the Study: One concern of human is heavy metals pollution of food products such as rice. It is a fact that rice is one of the most consumed items in the diet of Iranian people. This study was conducted to evaluate lead and cadmium levels of Iranian and imported rice in Kermanshah city, Iran, 2016. Materials & Methods: This descriptive- analytical and cross...

Narcotic drug trafficking is a criminal and punishable offence in every country the world over. The use of certain narcotic drugs, on other hand (especially marijuana), has been legalised some countries, but under strict regulations. Like as signatory to United Nations Conventions Ghana implemented severe punitive sanctions for drug-related offences deter people from engaging this crime. This p...

for centuries, aloe vera has been used by many different cultures. the ancient greeks, the romans, the babylonians, indians and the chinese have all used aloe vera as a medicinal plant. one of the common experimental cancer models is sarcoma-180. when aloe was administered to mice bearing s-180 tumors, the tumor growth was inhibited. aloe vera is a dietary supplement and not a regulated drug. t...

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Abstract— Population characteristics and processes both are the drivers and results of social and economic development processes and outcomes. A community’s population characteristics like age, background, close circle, employment, education, use of drugs, family history, per capita income, locality, housing status etc. are of concern that influences various offences and offence levels in our s...

● ● The analysis identifies a small group of young people described here as ‘prolific offenders’, who accounted for a disproportionate number of offences, including serious offences. This group should be a key target for policy intervention on youth crime. Youth crime policy needs to engage with this group at an early stage as the analysis shows that this group starts to offend earlier compared...