Crime - Trends
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Penrose's law revisited: the relationship between mental institution beds, prison population and crime rate.

30 Dec 2008 In 1939, Lionel Penrose published a cross-sectional study from 18 European countries, including the Nordic, in which he demonstrated an inverse relationship between the number of mental hospital beds and the number of prisoners. He also found strong ... Read more...

Homelessness, mental illness, and criminal activity: examining patterns over time.

29 Nov 2008 This study examined whether street homelessness, sheltered homelessness, and the severity of psychological symptoms predicted non-violent and violent crime among 207 mentally ill participants who were homeless at baseline. Participants were ... Read more...

The effectiveness of an electronic security management system in a privately owned apartment complex.

8 Nov 2008 Poisson and negative binomial regression methods are used to analyze the monthly time series data to determine the effects of introducing an integrated security management system including closed-circuit television (CCTV), door alarm monitoring, ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Crime - Trends'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Marching for science. 29 Apr 2009
• Penrose's law revisited: the relationship between mental institution beds, prison population and crime rate. 30 Dec 2008
• Homelessness, mental illness, and criminal activity: examining patterns over time. 29 Nov 2008
• The effectiveness of an electronic security management system in a privately owned apartment complex. 8 Nov 2008
• Is the crime drop of the 1990s in Canada and the USA associated with a general decline in risky and health-related behavior? 30 Oct 2008
• Nonfamily infant abductions, 1983-2006. 30 Aug 2008
• When animal rights turns ugly. 30 May 2008
• An uncertain dominion: Irish psychiatry, methadone, and the treatment of opiate abuse. 30 May 2008
• Animal-rights activists invade Europe. 26 Feb 2008
• Violent societies: an application of orbital decomposition to the problem of human violence. 30 Dec 2007
• The criminal use of improvised and re-activated firearms in Great Britain and Northern Ireland. 30 Oct 2007
• Arrests of adolescent clients of a public mental health system during adolescence and young adulthood. 30 Oct 2007
• Drug-related arrests in a cohort of public mental health service recipients. 30 Oct 2007
• The "red gold" rush and severe electrical burns. 29 Sep 2007
• Understanding international crime trends: the legacy of preschool lead exposure. 21 Apr 2007
• Palaeontology journal will 'fuel black market'. 16 Jan 2007
• "Key to the future": British American tobacco and cigarette smuggling in China. 29 Jun 2006
• Impact of a medically supervised safer injecting facility on drug dealing and other drug-related crime. 6 May 2006
• Examining links between cocaine use and street-based sex work in New South Wales, Australia. 29 Apr 2006
• Trends in alcohol-related harms and offences in a liberalized alcohol environment. 30 Jan 2006

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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