BACKGROUND Despite evidence of the effectiveness of injectable opioid treatment compared with oral methadone for chronic heroin addiction, the additional cost of injectable treatment is considerable, and cost-effectiveness uncertain. AIMS To compare the cost-effectiveness of supervised injectable heroin and injectable methadone with optimised oral methadone for chronic refractory heroin addic...

The article deals with a comprehensive analysis of the legal prescriptions of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation aimed at the liberalization and humanization of the criminal policy in the context of international norms. The author examines the procedure of the imposition of a limit of the penalties for serious and very serious crimes. The content of the principle of humanization of the...

Domestic violence, particularly male violence against female partners, has been the focus of tremendous public and policy attention over the past two decades. It is now conventional wisdom that traditional criminal justice responses reflected indifference and even resistance to defining such incidents as crime, but as society’s values and beliefs about the acceptability of such violence have ch...

Indonesia is a state of law, as mandated in the Indonesian constitution. And also democratic country that upholds sovereignty people, this certainly inseparable from problems then arise by people and sovereign government, namely an act which carried out person or group to overthrow government commonly known crime. treason. In Indonesia, crime treason something often happens considering country....

Recent research in criminology has indicated that the media may influence people’s attitudes toward criminal justice policy. This paper examined attitudes toward gun control among a student population using both ideological (attribution styles) and instrumental perspectives (fear of crime), and then tested whether viewing the film Bowling for Columbine influenced those attitudes. The study empl...

This article reviews social scientific research on the occurrence of genocide and mass killing, focusing on the underlying, contributing processes. Relevant studies are grouped by their primary analytic focus: (a) macro-level state and institutional processes, (b) political elites and policy decisions, (c) nonelite perpetrator motivation and participation, (d ) social construction of victimgrou...