Definition As West points out delinquency is a sociolegal category.' The definition of a juvenile delinquent, in the UK at least, is a young person between the age of 10 (the age of 'criminal responsibility') and 17 years who has been prosecuted and found guilty ofan offence that would be classified as a 'crime' ifcommitted by an adult. These offences normally result in the opening of a crimina...

BACKGROUND Childhood hyperactivity has previously been found to be closely connected to subsequent alcohol problems and violent offending among men considered to be without major mental disorders. For others, these associations might be moderated or confounded by other factors, predominantly comorbid conduct disorder. AIMS The purpose of the study was to investigate aspects of childhood hyper...

Recent reports suggest that the illicit use of prescription medicines, particularly pharmaceutical opioids (e.g. oxycodone), is increasing in Australia. This raises questions about how these drugs are channelled out of the medical system for unsanctioned use. The aim of the current study was to use police data to examine: (a) whether this increase is reflected in police crime data; (b) some of ...

One of the most basic questions in criminology is how to measure the key outcome variable of offending. The two most common measurement methods are to use official records of arrests/convictions or self-reports of offending. These two methods have different advantages and problems. For example, official records include only the ‘tip of the iceberg’ of offending, but the offences are recorded qu...

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...

AIM To assess alcohol-related harms and offences in New Zealand from 1990 to 2003, a period of alcohol policy liberalization, that included the lowering of the purchase age from 20 to 18 years in 1999. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Time trend analyses were carried out on routinely collected data for prosecutions for driving with excess alcohol; alcohol-involved vehicle crashes (all and fat...

1. Abstract This paper looks at the application of data mining techniques, principally the Multi-Layer Perceptron and Self Organising Map, to the recognition of burglary offences committed by a network of offenders. The aim is to suggest a list of currently undetected crimes that may be attributed to one or more members of the network and improve on the time taken to complete the task manually ...

In 2020, the Federal Morrison Liberal Government scrambled to respond effects of international coronavirus pandemic on Australian labour market in two key ways. First, through largescale social welfare and economic stimulus (the ‘JobKeeper’ scheme) second, significant proposed reform employment laws as part a recovery package ‘Omnibus Bill’). Where first measure was administered by employers, s...

This paper describes the implementation of a prototype installation for automatic detection of traffic offences with the use of video camera real time analysis. In this paper, we focus on the technical aspect of the installation as well as on the possibilities to implement algorithms to detect offenders. The project of the installation assumed the use of low-cost series of components and reduci...