The aim of our study was to determine if there is a difference between the type of crime committed by persons diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and that committed by other offenders. The study included 389 male patients at the Department of Forensic Psychiatry in Popovaca who underwent forensic psychiatric evaluation to establish a psychiatric diagnosis, evaluate the mental ca...

Abstract Financial misconduct has come into the spotlight in recent years, causing market regulators to increase reach and severity of interventions. We show that at times economic benefits illicit financial activity outweigh costs litigation. illustrate our argument with data from US Securities Exchanges Commission a case investment misconduct. From neoclassical paradigm, which follows utilita...

Situational Crime Prevention (SCP) is a versatile approach that seeks to prevent criminal behavior by either implementing strategies to manipulate specific situations to make it impossible for the crime to be committed, or by reducing cues that increase a person’s motivation to commit a crime during specific types of events. SCP’s reach has expanded tremendously in recent years and the number o...

The goal of this study was identification of highly specific patterns of schizophrenia related domestic homicides by comparing schizophrenic homicide offenders with related domestic homicide group of offenders diagnosed with other psychiatric disorders. This study was based on the comparison of schizophrenic homicide group and other homicide group of offenders on the basis of differences in psy...

The purpose of this paper is to reflect, once again, about the dilemma of the existence of free will, and about the widening of the sphere of its implications from the legal and philosophical field to that of Neuroethics. This science tries to solve the problem of the imputability trying to understand whether a man is free to self– determination or if his conduct is inevitably influenced by the...

money laundering is a silent crime which crosses international boundaries. modern technology has led to new avenues to disguise the proceeds of crime. the advent of electronic money has meant that tracing the transfer of possibly illicit funds is an extremely difficult if not impossible task. therefore there is a need to take consistent measures against money laundering throughout the world esp...

No longer limited by geographic locations and in-person interactions, criminals leverage information communication technology to commit virtual kidnappings. In its simplest form, a kidnapping is cyber-enabled crime where contact targets (falsely) claiming have kidnapped significant other, child, or other relative threatening cause death serious bodily harm the person unless ransom paid. Overall...

This study examines the spatial characteristics of crimes that have been committed against nature and environment. In Hungary, research in domain geography crime is truly rare, number researchers who dared to tackle properties environment even lower. The author's hypothesis correlation between certain socio-demographic can be established, so distribution these differs significantly. temporal in...