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This article assesses 3,259 romance fraud reports made by individuals to Scamwatch (Australian online reporting portal for fraud), between July 2018 – 2019 (inclusive). It seeks highlight experiences of fear crime as articulated the complainants. Drawing on frameworks used analyze (specifically affective, behavioral and cognitive aspects fear) is an exploratory assessment how evident in those t...

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Gun control legislation is essentially a law enforcement matter and a political device to reduce violent crime; only secondarily a psychiatric concern. It is a volatile issue among citizens and legislators alike. The position of forensic psychiatry toward violent crime has been largely peripheral, since only a minute number of homicides where insanity is pled (about I percent) involves psychiat...

This special issue features seven articles among those presented at the workshop “Crime and Perceived Safety in Brazil” (Crime e Percepção de Segurança Brazil) Campinas, Brazil, December 2019. The reflects an array of themes contemporary criminology from homicides corruption to fear crime prevention. interdisciplinary character with participating researchers several Brazilian universities. For ...