The thriller tells daily explosive facts which take place, in most of the time, a urban space. authors describe, as critics have observed, serious troubles today’s society. Crimes, racism, trafficking, terrorism, theft, etc., all these crimes become mark an unbalanced world, world crisis. “suburban”thriller, like suburban literature general, circumscribes scene modern “misérables”clash. HLM, da...

German crime films usually only find wide international circulation when they deal with either the two World Wars or country’s unique position during Cold War. Victoria (Sebastian Schipper, 2015) is an exception. The film, shot in one continuous take, tells story of a young woman from Madrid who meets four local Berliners outside nightclub middle night and ends up robbing private bank them. Wit...

Aim The present study aimed to study the associations between substance use patterns and types of crimes in prisoners with substance use problems, and specifically whether substance use patterns were different in violent offenders. Methods Interview data of prisoners with substance use problems (N=4,202, mean age 33.5 years, SD 9.8), derived from the Addiction Severity Index, were run against...

Crimes against the historically marginalized Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (SC/ST) by the upper castes in India represent an extreme form of prejudice and discrimination. In this paper, we investigate the effect of changes in relative material standards of living between the SC/STs and upper castes as measured by the ratio of consumption expenditures of SC/STs to that of upper castes on...

For a complete list and the full text of the papers in the Trends and Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice series, visit the AIC web site at: Under-reporting of crime to police means not only that police crime records may underestimate the extent of particular crimes but that valuable resources and crime prevention strategies may be aimed at certain crimes because they are reported more frequen...

le thème du crime a attiré toujours l’attention des écrivains qui étaient depuis toujours à la recherche des intrigues compliquées et sophistiquées. cette attention est renforcée de plus en plus par le biais des crimes qui restent pour jamais irrésolus non seulement pour ceux ou celles qui les jugent, mais aussi pour ceux ou celles qui les commettent. les crimes commis dans l’étranger d’albert ...