This study examines the relationship between gun availability and crime in a cross-national sample of cities. Data from the International Crime Victimization Survey are used to examine three competing hypotheses. The results of the limited information maximum least squares regression analyses suggest that gun availability influences rates of assault, gun assault, robbery, and gun robbery. These...

homicide is one of the most important crimes in all countries statutory laws. such an importance is out of both of severity of the committed crime and difficulties in trial. these difficulties may cause to different and even paradoxical verdicts in the same case. this article is involved in one of these cases, i.e. homicide which has encountered to different judgments and is still open. brief r...

As a question bearing on the subject of criminal responsibility, it was perfectly right that the state of Constance Kent's mind, at the time she killed her little brother should be reconsidered in the Lumleian lecture lately delivered by Dr. Bucknill before the Royal College of Physicians. For the sake of her family, it is, however, to be regretted that Dr. Bucknill's arguments for her sanity f...

Criminal Competency Evaluations have had an interesting history. From British Common Law, we share a tradition in which “idiots” and those with emotional defects, who are unable to assist their attorneys in their own defense, cannot be tried for a crime. In our adversarial legal system, it is considered unfair to try someone who can’t meaningfully grasp the charges against them, nor meaningfull...

While hackers and viruses fuel the IS security concerns for organisations, the problems posed by employee computer crime should not be underestimated. Indeed, a growing number of IS security researchers have turned their attention to the 'insider' threat. However, to date, there has been a lack of insight into the relationship between the actual behaviour of offenders during the perpetration of...

White-collar crime is financial crime committed by upper-class members of society for personal or organizational gain. White-collar criminals are individuals who tend to be wealthy, highly educated and socially connected, and they are typically employed by, and within, legitimate organizations. Ever since Edwin Sutherland first introduced the concept of “white-collar” crime in 1939, researchers...

Statistical clustering of criminal events can be used by crime analysts to create of lists of potential suspects for an unsolved crime, identify groups of crimes that may have been committed by the same individuals or group of individuals, for offender profiling, and for predicting future events. In this paper, we propose a Bayesian model-based clustering approach for criminal events. Our appro...

This chapter examines the role of social inequality in crime and deviance by specifying a social psychological theory of the causal mechanisms by which inequality is associated with crime. We begin by noting that the powerful have more input into the content of criminal law, a point illustrated by the relatively soft penalties for white collar and corporate crimes compared to the harsh penaltie...