STUDY OBJECTIVE We studied a population of young adults who legally purchased handguns to determine whether an association exists between the purchase of an assault-type handgun and prior or subsequent criminal activity. METHODS We conducted a longitudinal study of 5,360 legally authorized purchasers of handguns in California in 1988 who were younger than 25 years at the time of purchase. Our...

This research focused on whether or not demographic characteristics influence repeat violent offenses. Discussions occurred regarding the potential of the correlation between demographic values in census block groups of the City of Madison, Wisconsin and repeat violent offenses from January 2000 to November 2007. Statistical analysis, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and repeat violent off...

Specialized treatment has been a mainstay of sex offender management approaches for several decades. In recent years, however, the heightened attention to sex crimes and its impact on victims and communities has resulted in a push for more punitive responses to the individuals who commit these crimes, including lengthier periods of confinement, tighter residency restrictions, expanded registrat...

Little attention has been paid to why offenses become obsolete or obsolescent. In the context of attempts to reduce crime, it is necessary to consider reasons for past successes. This paper presents a preliminary classification of reasons for the obsolescence (legal abolition, court action, action by police and customs officials, economic and social change, and population density) of 24 offense...

TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction .. .................................... 93 I. Background . ................................ 102 A. Statutory Basis for Antitrust Offenses ........... 102 B. Judicial Construction of Antitrust Laws ......... 103 1. Monopolization and attempted monopolization: section 2 offenses ........................ 103 2. Combinations or contracts in restraint of trade: section...

Background A growing body of research documents the high rates trauma among individuals who have sexually offended. Yet relationship between prior victimization and subsequent sexual offending remained unclear. Objective: By including voices perspectives convicted offenses, we sought to strengthen professionals’ understanding connec...

This study investigated the dimensionality of Perception Sex Offenders scale among prison officer students in Norway, and whether students’ perceptions this group prisoners changed during their theoretical education 1-year practical training. The target sample comprised a full cohort freshman students, two waves data collection were conducted. response rate was 94% ( n = 188) at time 1 (T1) 64%...

PURPOSE We examined cases in which sex offenders arrested for Internet-related crimes used the Internet for sexual communications with minors, comparing crimes by offenders who met victims online to those by offenders who knew victims in-person prior to the offense. METHODS We collected data from a national sample of law enforcement agencies (n = 2,653) about arrests in 2009 for Internet-rela...

Serial rapists have the propensity to cause harm to a significant number of victims, meaning that they are of concern to the police as well as to treatment providers. Despite the serious nature of their offending, there are surprisingly few studies that provide information regarding their characteristics, the types of victim they target, or the nature of the sexual offenses they commit, and tho...