We investigate whether a nexus exists between income inequality and criminal activity in Indonesia. Additionally, we examine socioeconomic variables potential links with actions (i.e., crime rate, murder, rape, physical abuse, robbery, fraud). use the generalized method of moments (GMM) approach, employing data for 34 provinces Indonesia over period 2010–2019. The results indicate that is assoc...

new millennium began when half of world population is living in the cities. predictions represent that the proportion of citizenship will reach to 65 percent by 2050. one the phenomena affected by living in the cities is citizenship. citizenship phenomenon is one of the phenomena that in in the era of social political evolution in the world have received much attention. presentation of theories...

In particular, the study aims to gain an understanding of who the perpetrators of violence against women and girls are, and why they commit these violent crimes. In addition, the study investigates the psychosocial factors that contribute to the commission of these violent crimes, and generates data that it is hoped will aid the relevant authorities and stakeholders in designing and developing ...

ArcBurg a Promising Residential Burglary-Forecasting Modeling Extension Track: Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Author(s): Kevin Switala This paper describes a developing project originating in the City of Philadelphia Police Department and investigates a promising residential burglary-forecasting raster model. Burglary remains a primary concern citywide and serves as a precipitating crime ...

In this paper we build and estimate an econometric model of recidivism, using a US data set of released prisoners from state prisons in 1983. The data set is unique in the sense that it contains information on recidivism for both federal and state crimes, in contrast of past studies restricted only to state samples with few or no information about federal crimes. The paper extends the literatur...

The current study employed both latent variable- and person-centered approaches to examine psychopathic traits in a large sample of sex offenders (N = 958). The offenders, who had committed a range of sexual crimes, had been assessed with the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R; Hare, 2003). Structural equation modeling results indicated that the four-factor model of psychopathy (Hare, 2003; N...

OBJECTIVES Violence is a major urban public health problem in the United States. The impact of a physical barrier placed across a street in a public housing project to prevent street violence and drug activity was evaluated. METHODS Hartford Police Department data on violent and drug related crime incidence within the housing project containing the barrier were analyzed by use of a computeriz...

INTRODUCTION Although some view the ownership of firearms as a deterrent to crime, the relationship between population-level firearm ownership rates and violent criminal perpetration is unclear. The purpose of this study is to test the association between state-level firearm ownership and violent crime. METHODS State-level rates of household firearm ownership and annual rates of criminal acts...