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 ...

The criminal career approach is an exciting new perspective in criminology that has been greatly stimulated by the US National Academy of Sciences Panel on Criminal Career Research (Blumstein et al. 1986), of which I was privileged to be a member. It is not a criminological theory but a framework within which theories can be proposed and tested. This approach defines a 'criminal career' as the ...

Every society is governed by certain rules (the law), customs, norms and values; and these are intricately crucial to the maintenance of public morality. Invariably, there is a public morality which provides the cement of any human society; the law, especially the criminal law, must regard it as a primary function to reflect and maintain this public morality. Criminal Codes lay down various off...