We highlight the role of commuting cost, location and housing market in crime decision. By assuming that all crimes are committed in the central business district and that criminals create both positive and negative externalities to each other, we ...nd that high wages or large levels of police resources are a natural way to reduce crime. We also ...nd that bigger cities experience higher level...

Growth rates were determined for two captive litters (one male and one female) of nine-banded armadillos (Dasypus novemcinctus) born to the same parents in two successive years. For females, gain in mass from birth to about 2 years old was best described by a fourth order polynomial function. However, increase in mass was linear from birth up to at least 400 days of age. The male litter was bor...

Yaniv Altshuler,1, 2 Nadav Aharony,1 Yuval Elovici,2, 3 Alex Pentland,1 and Manuel Cebrian1, 4 The Media Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel Department of Information Systems Engineering, Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel Department of Computer Science and Enginee...

Purpose. This paper is a survey examining beliefs about cues to deception held by prison inmates, prison personnel and students. In line with the ideas about more beneŽ cial learning structures in the environment of criminals and Ž ndings from previous studies, we predicted that the beliefs held by prison inmates would be most consistent with the general pattern found in studies examining objec...

The high loss of newly released hatchery-reared European lobster (Homarus gammarus) juveniles for stock enhancement is believed to be the result of maladaptive anti-predator behaviour connected to deprived stimuli in the hatchery environment. Our objective was to learn if an enriched hatchery environment enhances shelter-seeking behaviour and survival. In the "naïve" treatment, the juveniles we...

Injuries of the spine are rare in children (Jaki 1930, Arendt 1958, Gelehrter and Vitalli 1960, Howarth and Petrie 1964, Vinz 1964, Broger 1968), amounting to only 25 per cent (Gelehrter 1957) or 33 per cent (Forni 1947) of all spinal injuries. During eight years we have observed twelve ofa total of 100 spinal injuries in subjects between the ages ofnothing and eighteen years coming to necropsy...

The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) is committed to improving the justice system’s response to crimes against children. OJJDP recognizes that children are at increased risk for crime victimization. Not only are children the victims of many of the same crimes that victimize adults, they are subject to other crimes, like child abuse and neglect, that are specific to ...

BACKGROUND There is an almost total lack of empirical research on stalking among juveniles. AIMS To examine the characteristics, nature and impacts of stalking by juveniles. METHOD Analysis of consecutive court applications for a restraining order against a juvenile because of stalking behaviours. RESULTS A total of 299 juvenile stalkers were identified. The majority were male (64%) and t...