"Heat-of-passion crimes" are committed by jealous men against supposedly unfaithful mates, "honor killings" by vengeful relatives against female family members who have disgraced them. These terms are imprecise, and they overlap greatly in usage, but they are similarly, and troublingly, guilt-mitigating. Heat-of-passion crimes and honor killings are universally reported yet vary in incidence cu...

Although offenders with mental illness are overrepresented in the criminal justice system, psychiatric symptoms relate weakly to criminal behavior at the group level. In this study of 143 offenders with mental illness, we use data from intensive interviews and record reviews to examine how often and how consistently symptoms lead directly to criminal behavior. First, crimes rarely were directly...

One outgrowth of Milgram's (1974) research is the study of public opinion about obedience norms. Extending Kelman and Hamilton's (1989) research on crimes of obedience in the military, this article explores crimes of obedience and crimes of conformity in the workplace. Random samples of the residents of Washington, DC, Moscow, Russia, and Tokyo, Japan were pre.^ented four vignettes about organi...

This volume arises out of documentation and reflection by individuals and organisations across diverse regions, communities and cultures on existing and potential strategies of response to ‘crimes of honour’, seen primarily as a manifestation of violence against women, and a violation of women’s human rights. It was catalysed in particular by the murder of two young women, Samia Sarwar in Pakis...

A randomized clinical trial evaluated the efficacy of multisystemic therapy (MST) versus usual community services (UCS) for 48 juvenile sexual offenders at high risk of committing additional serious crimes. Results from multiagent assessment batteries conducted before and after treatment showed that MST was more effective than UCS in improving key family, peer, and academic correlates of juveni...

Law enforcement agencies need crime forecasts to support their tactical operations; namely, predicted crime locations for next week based on data from the previous week. Current practice simply assumes that spatial clusters of crimes or ‘‘hot spots’’ observed in the previous week will persist to the next week. This paper introduces a multivariate prediction model for hot spots that relates the ...

An immense proportion of alleged felons are under the influence of mindaltering substances when they are arrested, and many people arrested for drug offenses and other crimes are addicted. Indeed, possession and use of illicit substances, which are necessary criteria of addiction, are crimes in every state and under federal law. Assessing the moral and legal responsibility of agents who engage ...

With the development of Internet and information technology, the digital crimes are also on the rise. Computer forensics is an emerging research area that applies computer investigation and analysis techniques to help detection of these crimes and gathering of digital evidence suitable for presentation in courts. This paper provides foundational concept of computer forensics, outlines various p...