Delinquent gipsy youths in Spain come to the correctional facility with substantial physical, psychological and behavioural problems. This population is especially in need of dental, psychiatric, immunization, and infection treatment. Over an 8-year period (1993–2000) 222 gipsy youths (92% boys) with an average age of 15.2 years (age range 13–17 years) were admitted to a juvenile correctional f...

This paper explores crime risk within and around major transit systems, specifically by investigating theft of personal property offences on the London Underground. The majority of studies to date have examined theft above ground, predominantly at transit stations, although some studies have compared this with theft in nearby surrounding areas. This study is unique and extends this analysis to ...

Food control is essential for the benefit of local consumers as well as international trade, which impacts on the overall social and economic concerns of the nation. Nevertheless, success in food control implementation will not be achieved by a single agency. Concerned agencies as well as food industries have to be fully aware of and be responsible for the production of good quality and safe fo...

The traditional debate about the association between mental deficiency and crime requires gross simplifications of the concepts of mental disorder and of criminal behaviour. However, a focus on serious interpersonal offences and property offences, including arson, is a reasonable starting point. It would be pointless to include offences which required a high degree of sophis tication or ability...

It is no longer a question today that in many cases employees find themselves situation where either they or their environment believe have committed misdemeanor sin at work. The perception of can depend on number factors, such as the particular organizational culture, management, employee preferences, degree trust organization, and so on. There are we judge same differently, making severity ex...

The paper discusses the governmental draft of the Act on counteracting threats of sexual offences. It assumes the creation of the Registry of Sex Offenders in a version with a limited access and a version available to the public. The registry is supplemented with a publically available map of sexual crime threats, which includes the places of sexual offences and the places of residence of offen...