crime is a human behavior that has captivated the thoughts of scholars of various disciplines throughout history. philosophers, sociologists, psychologists and others have investigated and analyzed the concept of crime from different aspects. crime is the main topic of criminal law, and in its legal meaning is a well-known term with a certain conceptual load that should not be confused with sim...

This chapter attempts to provide a first step toward systematically examining the part that civil remedies can play in situational crime prevention. First, it reviews the main features of the concept and uses the script-analytic model to describe the mechanisms by which this approach seeks to prevent crime. The model is expanded to incorporate concepts useful for examining how situational contr...

In this paper we present the conceptual level of an ontologybased application aimed to support social scientists in their sociological analysis related on crime. Starting from several concrete issues posed by the research team of the Social Observatory on Crime of the University of Sassari, our goal is to build a Semantic Web based tool to collect, organize, and analyze data on crime, as well a...

This paper reviews studies that have evaluated the effectiveness of closed circuit television (CCTV) in reducing crime, disorder and fear of crime in a variety of sites. The guiding framework for the review is Tilley's (1993a) model for realist evaluation, which focuses on the mechanisms and contexts in which CCTV might operate. The paper concludes that CCTV can be effective in deterring proper...

Crime is a human behavior that has captivated the thoughts of scholars of various disciplines throughout history. Philosophers, sociologists, psychologists and others have investigated and analyzed the concept of crime from different aspects. Crime is the main topic of criminal law, and in its legal meaning is a well-known term with a certain conceptual load that should not be confused with sim...

Civil remedies are procedures and sanctions, specified by civil statutes and regulations, used to prevent or reduce criminal problems and incivilities. Civil remedies generally aim to persuade or coerce nonoffending third parties to take responsibility and action to prevent or end criminal or nuisance behavior. Early examples of civil remedy approaches typically targeted non-offending third par...

Third party policing’ describes police efforts to persuade or coerce third parties, such as landlords, parents, local governments and other regulators, and business owners, to take some responsibility for preventing crime or reducing crime problems. In third party policing, the police create crime control guardians in locations or situations where crime control guardianship was previously absen...

Federal law that codifies military criminal procedure provides that “[n]o person subject to this chapter may attempt to coerce or, by any unauthorized means, influence the action of a court-martial . . . or the action of any convening, approving, or reviewing authority with respect to his judicial acts.”2 This section of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) statutorily limits the reach o...