Crime - Statistics & numerical data
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

[The characteristics of offenders abusing alcohol in view of forensic-psychiatric assessments]

30 Aug 2009 The relationship between alcohol consumption and crime appears to be unquestionable. However, the mechanisms that lead to violence and aggression under the influence of alcohol are not entirely understood. THE AIM OF THIS PAPER: To attempt answering ... Read more...

Meta-analytic interval estimation for standardized and unstandardized mean differences.

30 Aug 2009 The fixed-effects (FE) meta-analytic confidence intervals for unstandardized and standardized mean differences are based on an unrealistic assumption of effect-size homogeneity and perform poorly when this assumption is violated. The random-effects ... Read more...

The crime drop in comparative perspective: the impact of the economy and imprisonment on American and European burglary rates.

30 Aug 2009 Influential statements on recent American crime reductions maintain that the crime drop was confined to the USA. Yet other research has revealed comparable crime decreases in Europe. We suggest that the USA and European crime declines occurred in ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Crime - Statistics & numerical data'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Heroin clinics reduce street drug use and crime, shows study. 16 Sep 2009
• Substance abuse and violent crime in patients with schizophrenia. 14 Sep 2009
• [The characteristics of offenders abusing alcohol in view of forensic-psychiatric assessments] 30 Aug 2009
• Meta-analytic interval estimation for standardized and unstandardized mean differences. 30 Aug 2009
• The crime drop in comparative perspective: the impact of the economy and imprisonment on American and European burglary rates. 30 Aug 2009
• Pathological gambling and criminality. 30 Aug 2009
• The social costs of childhood lead exposure in the post-lead regulation era. 30 Aug 2009
• Iatrogenic effect of juvenile justice. 30 Jul 2009
• More attention should be paid to schizophrenic patients with risk of violent offences. 30 Jul 2009
• Murder by structure: dominance relations and the social structure of gang homicide. 29 Jun 2009
• Young adult injection drug users in the United States continue to practice HIV risk behaviors. 23 Jun 2009
• Risk factors for attempting suicide in prisoners. 30 May 2009
• Crime, drugs and distress: patterns of drug use and harm among criminally involved injecting drug users in Australia. 30 May 2009
• Recidivistic offending and mortality in alcoholic violent offenders: a prospective follow-up study. 18 May 2009
• Schizophrenia, substance abuse, and violent crime. 18 May 2009
• Low non-oxidative glucose metabolism and violent offending: an 8-year prospective follow-up study. 13 May 2009
• Interim methadone treatment: impact on arrests. 12 May 2009
• Psychopathic traits and offender characteristics - a nationwide consecutive sample of homicidal male adolescents. 4 May 2009
• Segregation, racial structure, and neighborhood violent crime. 29 Apr 2009
• The effects of exposure to community violence on aspects of adolescent identity development. 29 Apr 2009

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Technical information about 'Crime'

Definition: A violation of the criminal law, i.e., a breach of the conduct code specifically sanctioned by the state, which through its administrative agencies prosecutes offenders and imposes and administers punishments. The concept includes unacceptable actions whether prosecuted or going unpunished.

Descriptor UI: D003415

Alternative terms: Crime; Crimes; Kidnapping; Kidnappings;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; ethnology; history; legislation & jurisprudence; prevention & control; psychology; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: I01.198.240; I01.880.735.191;

History Note: 68

Technical Notes: specify geog if pertinent