illicit drug abuse continues to be a growing problem worldwide and a serious hazard to humanity. the crimes associated with drug abuse include sale or possession of drugs; property crimes or prostitution to support drug habits; and violent crimes reflecting out-of-control behavior. in fact, an offender drug use is involved in more than half of all violent crimes and in 60 to 80 percent of child...

This paper examines the impact of being a victim of violent or property crime on labour market outcomes and general well-being using longitudinal data from the nationally representative Household Income and Labour Dynamics of Australia (HILDA) survey. We estimate fixed effects regression models that examine changes in outcomes for individuals before/after victimisation relative to changes in ou...

Exposure to frequent crime incidents has been found to have a negative bearing on the well-being of city residents, even if they are not themselves a direct victim. We pursue the research question of whether naturalistic data shared on Twitter may provide a "lens" to understand changes in psychological attributes of urban communities (1) immediately following crime incidents, as well as (2) due...

This chapter discusses the uses of a geographic information system (GIs) for tactical crime analysis. A tactical crime analysis GIs is built on the assumption that police managers and line officers need access to timely and accurate information for problem solving, community policing, crime prevention, and enforcement activities. The goal of using a GIs system is to address some of the shortcom...

The Costa Rican talk of crime is fundamentally based on the assumption that a formerly explicitly nonviolent nation has been transformed into a battleground for social violence— that is, on the belief that an alarming “crime wave” is occurring today while there was no crime at all in the past. On the basis of this assumption, the fear of crime and the call for zero tolerance and drastic law ...

Action is needed beyond health care to improve life expectancy and health. Health for all is only possible through the provision of jobs, education, crime prevention, housing, and strong social-welfare systems. And health gains are the added benefi t; improved social policies and services will fi rst and foremost create better opportunities for the individual, and bring security and prosperity ...

n engl j med 355;20 www.nejm.org november 16, 2006 2064 O Sunday afternoon, September 3, 2006, Wayne Fenton, a prominent schizophrenia expert and an associate director at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), was found dead in his office. He had just seen a 19-yearold patient with schizophrenia who later admitted to the police that he had beaten Fenton with his fists. This tragic inci...