This article examines the nature of petty crimes committed by sixteenth century Aberdonian women and the impact they had on burgh society. The evidence presented here challenges the notion that the burgh court charged women with a much more narrow range of criminal activities than men. Over a period of roughly 50 years (15411591), the Aberdeen Council Register and Baillie Court Books record nea...

The report summarises what is known about the extent and nature of armed robbery nationally, highlighting the reductions in the number of these crimes in 1994 and 1995. It goes on to examine the policing strategies in two very different forces the Metropolitan Police and South Yorkshire Police showing how the police response can be tailored to the particular environment and local circumstances....

Research suggests that a decreasing share of violent crime is attributable to offenders who had been drinking alcoholic beverages. Surveys of victims indicate that the rate of alcohol-involved violent crimes (i.e., crimes in which the perpetrators had been drinking, as perceived by the victims) decreased 34 percent from 1993 to 1998, whereas the rate of non-alcohol-involved violence decreased 2...

In this paper we offer a relatively comprehensive introduction to estimation issues associated with time-series— cross-section analysis in criminology. We divide the estimation issues into two categories: (1) those that have received a fair amount of attention in the literature and (2) those that have not. Issues that have received attention are heterogeneity, autocorrelation, panel heteroskeda...

Üsküdar ve Kayseri 17. yüzyılın İlk Çeyreğinde farklı konumları, ekonomik kültürel yapıları ile yekdiğerinden iki yerleşim yeri idi. Söz konusu zaman dilimi içerisinde payitahta komşu olması dolayısı merkezi konumda bulunmakta Ayrıca Celali İsyanları sırasında İstanbul’a giriş kapısı görevi gören işlek bir merkezdi. Bu durum Üsküdar’ın anlamda hareketli yer olmasını sağlamıştır. Özellikle nüfus...

Although youth who commit serious violent crimes are small in number, they account for a disproportionate amount of juvenile crime. How then can we best intervene with this difficult—even dangerous—population? A major study, funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and conducted by its Study Group on Serious and Violent Juvenile Offenders, sheds new light on promising...

Does the basic prosocial trait of Honesty-Humility predict crime? We test whether (1) differentiates between imprisoned criminal offenders and national population, (2) predicts frequency behavior (the number reported crimes), (3) type crime leading to imprisonment (violent, non-violent, sexual). found that had lower levels than but did not crimes in this group. Additionally, we examined if viol...