INTRODUCTION American's history of exposure to violent media has spanned more than a century, from the film The Great Train Robbery to the television show "Dragnet" to the video game Far Cry 2. Through films, television shows, music, and video games, people in all modern societies consume violent entertainment media on a regular basis. There is also a long history of concern that exposure to vi...

INTRODUCTION Destructiveness in aggressive behavior is interpreted as having many causes, the psychiatric ones being of biological, social and psychopathological nature. This study was aimed at examining the differences among the perpetrators who have committed crimes and misdemeanors in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the period from January 1st, 2003 to December 31st, 2012. MATERIAL AND METHODS T...

In addition to the third parties’ presence during incidents of violence, they often serve as witnesses to criminal events. They may call the police, provide information that helps to solve crimes, clarify the characteristics of the incident, or bear some responsibility for the commencement or escalation Third parties were present during two-thirds of all violent victimizations between 1993 and ...

Traditionally, criminologists have studied criminal behavior using methods that derive from a variety of scientific disciplines, such as, psychology, sociology, medicine, and psychiatry. Currently, there exist numerous schools of thought that each have developed a distinct theoretical paradigm for analyzing criminal behavior. Most of them attribute the causes of any given crime to the interacti...

This paper falls into a common field of scientific research and its practical applications at the interface of urban geography, environmental criminology, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The purpose of this study is to identify types of different land use which influence the spatial distribution of a set of crime types at the intra-urban scale. The originality of the adopted approach ...

www.thelancet.com Vol 384 September 27, 2014 1167 In the past 25 years, evidence has accumulated that people with schizophrenia are at increased risk to commit violent crimes and, to a lesser degree, non-violent crimes compared with the general population. A smaller amount of evidence suggests that patients with bipolar disorder are also at increased risk of committing violent off ences. Althou...

This study aims to provide answers the following questions: Do you feel safe at Historic Centre of Porto (HCP)? think that crime is increasing? What are most and less frequent crimes? And feared conditions promote criminal occurrences? incivilities occur HCP? measures can be taken increase security? variables related perception insecurity? Through application Diagnosis Local Security Questionna...

Background: This study aimed to examine the number of latent classes of criminal intent that exist among prisoners and to look at the associations with recidivism, number of police arrests, type of offending (robbery, violent offences, murder, and multiple offences), and age. Participants and Procedure: Latent class analysis was used to identify homogeneous subgroups of prisoners based on their...

Research on radicalization became relevant to the study of terrorism and violent extremism just two decades ago. The accumulated empirical data have led researchers experts understand that is a predictor actions by terrorists, extremists, lone actors. Violent incidents committed school shooters are not terrorist crimes, but there good reasons for inclusion as crimes since they similar mechanism...