The wrongs targeted by the criminal law need not reside in a defendant’s conduct and its effects (actus reus) or even in her willingness to allow or risk that conduct and its effects (mens rea as to actus reus). Rather, to a greater or lesser extent, wrongs may also reside in a species of mens rea that does not relate to the actus reus of an offence at all, but is rather ulterior to (goes beyon...

BACKGROUND Risk-taking behavior is a leading cause of injury and death amongst young people. METHODOLOGY AND PRINCIPAL FINDINGS This was a retrospective cohort study on the effectiveness of a 1-day youth injury awareness education program (Prevent Alcohol and Risk-related Trauma in Youth, P.A.R.T.Y.) program in reducing risk taking behaviors and injuries of juvenille justice offenders in West...

The decision of the New South Wales (‘NSW’) Court of Appeal in CB v Director of Public Prosecutions (NSW) has brought the mental element for ‘arson-type’ offences into sharp focus. These are offences involving damage to, or destruction of, various types of property or injury to, or the death of, persons from intentional or reckless acts of fire-setting. They may be structural fires or bushfires...

INTRODUCTION Tennis is a professional sport under a strict anti-doping control. However, since the first violation of the code, the positive cases have not been statistically studied. The objective of this study was to analyze doping offences in the international professional tennis circuit. METHODS All offences to the Doping Code committed by tennis players during 2003-2009 were collected fr...

Abstract It is widely recognised that burglary and theft offence trends have broadly moved in parallel ‘Western’ market-based countries since the 1950s. Most researchers focussed on trend from early 1990s onwards, when rates plummeted. One major proposed explanation for this trend, relates to improved security. This paper draws longitudinal variations reward of electronic consumer goods propose...

The paper discusses the governmental draft of the Act on counteracting threats of sexual offences. It assumes the creation of the Registry of Sex Offenders in a version with a limited access and a version available to the public. The registry is supplemented with a publically available map of sexual crime threats, which includes the places of sexual offences and the places of residence of offen...

The traditional debate about the association between mental deficiency and crime requires gross simplifications of the concepts of mental disorder and of criminal behaviour. However, a focus on serious interpersonal offences and property offences, including arson, is a reasonable starting point. It would be pointless to include offences which required a high degree of sophis tication or ability...

This paper explores crime risk within and around major transit systems, specifically by investigating theft of personal property offences on the London Underground. The majority of studies to date have examined theft above ground, predominantly at transit stations, although some studies have compared this with theft in nearby surrounding areas. This study is unique and extends this analysis to ...