Criminal behavior and age: a test of three provocative hypothesis.

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology;  September 22, 1997 ;     700+ words ......Moreover, if the causes of crime are the same at all ages...portray the determinants of crime as age-graded and variable...course.(4) If the causes of crime do not interact with age and the age-crime relationship is inherent...identify the general causes of crime and apply them to ...

An economic analysis of drug use and crime

Journal of Drug Issues;  July 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......use may affect criminal behavior because of the...relationships between crime and its determinants...theory to analyze criminal behavior, econometric methodology...work on the drug-crime relationship. The...Economic Model of Crime and Empirical Issues...economic analysis of ...

Crime in the breaking: Gender differences in desistance

Law & Society Review;  January 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......understanding patterns of criminal behavior over the life course and...especially, desistance from crime, evidence about the predictors...attempts to explain the age-crime curve, more specifically, the apparent "aging out of crime" or "maturational reform...to be correlated with ...

A simple model of crime waves, riots, and revolutions.

Atlantic Economic Journal;  September 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ...Introduction Crime costs Americans...caused by violent crime.(1) Understanding...consequences of crime has been greatly...economic theory of criminal behavior. Standard economic...total amount of crime which occurs. As...to participate in crime. The paper ...

Crime often more devastating than racism

Human Events;  January 22, 1999 ;     610 words ...Criminal behavior hurts in ways...the level of crime in black communities...Not only does crime reduce upward...unappreciated effects of criminal behavior-the case of supermarkets...another for their criminal behavior. For them, crime is seen as a...

Smoking Out Crime's Roots

The Washington Post;  March 23, 1999 ;     700+ words ......during pregnancy and criminal behavior in their children...increased rates of crime in adult offspring...knows what causes criminal behavior. It's not like...person will turn to crime. Researchers examined...arrested for a violent crime. But a statistical...smoking caused the ...

Fighting crime by treating substance abuse.

Issues in Science and Technology;  September 22, 1998 ;     700+ words ......addiction could curb criminal behavior and ease the burden...concerns about crime and violence have...fundamental impact on the criminal behavior of 80 percent of...alcohol use and crime, typically committing...treatment reduces criminal recidivism and...remains drug-free, ...

Controversy Flares Over Crime, Heredity; NIH Suspends Funding for...

The Washington Post;  August 19, 1992 ;     700+ words ......a conference on heredity and criminal behavior until organizers can reshape...advocate a genetic explanation for crime. The conference, originally...young people from developing criminal behavior. The proposed initiative, which...

Universal principles of criminal behavior: A tool for analyzing criminal...

FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin;  January 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......prior to the commission of a crime. A broad analysis of unlawful activity reveals that all criminal behavior shares a common set of universal...universal principles of the criminal behavior (UPCB)2 model does not focus...the constituent stages of criminal behavior. ...

Going further to prevent crime

The Sun, San Bernardino, Calif.;  October 26, 2006 ;     624 words ......description is to plot where crime happens on a map, he's not...he works with to determine criminal behavior, which is why he won the California Crime and Intelligence Analyst Association...system software to create city-crime data maps, he thinks of the...organism,'' Mielke said. ...

Searching for a better understanding of race and ethnic differences in...

Criminal Justice Ethics;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......Hawkins (ed.), Violent Crime: Assessing Race and Ethnic...violence and other forms of criminal behavior have been the subject of...were being blamed for the crime problem in Chicago in the...discovered that high rates of crime persisted in certain core...found that the rates of crime ...

Liotta Tracks 'Criminal Behavior' for NBC.

Zap2It.com;  September 9, 2004 ;     250 words ......detective who tries to stop crime before it happens. Ray...in the pilot, titled Criminal Behavior. Shane Salerno ( UC...detectives working to prevent crime, rather than investigating...TV cops, he says of Criminal Behavior's characters. They're...

Teenagers at Greatest Risk for Crime Victimization; Landmark Report Shows...

Ascribe Higher Education News Service;  July 16, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Byline: National Council on Crime and Delinquency WASHINGTON, July 16 (AScribe Newswire...likely as any other age group to be victims of violent crime, and one in five teenagers reported being the victim of a violent crime according to a new report released today. The single greatest factor in predicting ...

Teenagers at Greatest Risk for Crime Victimization; Landmark Report Shows...

PR Newswire;  July 16, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Teen Victim Project to Address Crime's Impact on Nation's Vulnerable Youth WASHINGTON, July...likely as any other age group to be victims of violent crime, and one in five teenagers report being the victim of a violent crime, according to a new report released today. The single greatest factor in predicting ...

Did Roe vs. Wade cut crime?, 'Unwantedness' may help explain criminal...

Charleston Daily Mail;  August 16, 1999 ;     693 words ......puzzles of the research world: Why has the crime rate dropped so sharply, so widely, so...explain as much as half of the drop in the crime rate. To put it simply, those states which...in the 1970s had very large declines in crime in the 1990s. That's true even when you...