Genomes and Genes
Summary: 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.
Publications294 found, 100 shown here
- Young children who commit crime: epidemiology, developmental origins, risk factors, early interventions, and policy implicationsR Loeber
University of Pittsburgh, USA
Dev Psychopathol 12:737-62. 2000..Policy recommendations are presented to improve methods of dealing with child delinquents by juvenile justice, child welfare, and mental health agencies...
- Combating the illegal trade in African elephant ivory with DNA forensicsSamuel K Wasser
Center for Conservation Biology, Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 1800, USA
Conserv Biol 22:1065-71. 2008International wildlife crime is burgeoning in this climate of global trade. We contend that the most effective way to contain this illegal trade is to determine where the wildlife is being removed...
- The association of perceived and objectively measured crime with physical activity: a cross-sectional analysisAileen P McGinn
Dept of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
J Phys Act Health 5:117-31. 2008b>Crime is one aspect of the environment that can act as a barrier to physical activity...
- Public perceptions of public drug use in four UK urban sitesLinda Cusick
Institute for Applied Social and Health Research, University of Paisley, The Gardner Building, Paisley PA1 2BE, UK
Int J Drug Policy 18:10-7. 2007..are often put forwards as solutions to social and health problems associated with poverty, drug use and crime. Debates about establishing drug consumption rooms (DCRs) are also concerned with providing services to drug use-..
- Crime prevention and active livingAnastasia Loukaitou-Sideris
Department of Urban Planning, University of California, Los Angeles, 3250 Public Policy Building, Box 951656, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Am J Health Promot 21:380-9, iii. 2007This paper addresses the question of whether crime is a barrier to active living and if it is, what can be done about it? The authors introduce a theoretical model that addresses how crime might influence physical activity behavior...
- Urban scaling and its deviations: revealing the structure of wealth, innovation and crime across citiesLuis M A Bettencourt
Theoretical Division and Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America
PLoS ONE 5:e13541. 2010..15). As a result larger cities are disproportionally the centers of innovation, wealth and crime, all to approximately the same degree...
- The built environment, neighborhood crime and constrained physical activity: an exploration of inconsistent findingsSarah Foster
School of Population Health, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia
Prev Med 47:241-51. 2008..This paper reviews the quantitative evidence to date, seeking to explain the inconsistencies, and offers recommendations for future research...
- Physical activity among elderly people in a city population: the influence of neighbourhood level violence and self perceived safetyFredrik N Piro
Institute of General Practice and Community Medicine, PO Box 1130 Blindern, N 0317 Oslo, Norway
J Epidemiol Community Health 60:626-32. 2006..To study the associations between neighbourhood level violence/fear of violence and physical activity among elderly people, accounting for somatic health...
- Psychophysiological and behavioral measures for detecting concealed information: the role of memory for crime detailsGalit Nahari
Department of Criminology, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel Department of Psychology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
Psychophysiology 48:733-44. 2011This study examined the role of memory for crime details in detecting concealed information using the electrodermal measure, Symptom Validity Test, and Number Guessing Test...
- Startling secrets: startle eye blink modulation by concealed crime informationBruno Verschuere
Department of Psychology, Ghent University, Henri Dunantlaan 2, B 9000 Ghent, Belgium
Biol Psychol 76:52-60. 2007..Autonomic responding was measured together with eye blink responses to startle probes presented during mock crime and control pictures...
- The role of psychophysiology in forensic assessments: deception detection, ERPs, and virtual reality mock crime scenariosRalf Mertens
Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 0068, USA
Psychophysiology 45:286-98. 2008..P. Rosenfeld, M. Soskins, G. Bosh, and A. Ryan's (2004) study by utilizing a virtual reality crime scenario to determine whether ERP-based procedures, including brain fingerprinting, can be rendered less effective ..
- Seeing black: race, crime, and visual processingJennifer L Eberhardt
Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 87:876-93. 2004..Study 1 demonstrates that Black faces influence participants' ability to spontaneously detect degraded images of crime-relevant objects. Conversely, Studies 2-4 demonstrate that activating abstract concepts (i.e...
- Crime victimization in adults with severe mental illness: comparison with the National Crime Victimization SurveyLinda A Teplin
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, 710 N Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 62:911-21. 2005Since deinstitutionalization, most persons with severe mental illness (SMI) now live in the community, where they are at great risk for crime victimization.
- Estimating the validity of the guilty knowledge test from simulated experiments: the external validity of mock crime studiesDavid Carmel
Department of Psychology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
J Exp Psychol Appl 9:261-9. 2003This experiment was designed to examine the external validity of the standard mock-crime procedure used extensively to evaluate the validity of polygraph tests. The authors manipulated the type of mock-crime procedure (standard vs...
- Love thy neighbour? Associations of social capital and crime with physical activity amongst womenKylie Ball
Deakin University, School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Burwood, Victoria 3125, Australia
Soc Sci Med 71:807-14. 2010..Neither neighbourhood crime against the person nor incivilities were associated with any form of physical activity...
- Emotional arousal modulates the encoding of crime-related details and corresponding physiological responses in the Concealed Information TestJudith Peth
Department of Systems Neuroscience, University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
Psychophysiology 49:381-90. 2012Previous studies demonstrated that concealed crime-related memories can be validly identified using the Concealed Information Test (CIT)...
- Neighborhood Environment Walkability Scale: validity and development of a short formEster Cerin
Institute of Human Performance, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Med Sci Sports Exerc 38:1682-91. 2006..The aim of this study was to examine the factorial and criterion validity of the Neighborhood Environment Walkability Scale (NEWS) and to develop an abbreviated version (NEWS-A)...
- A randomized controlled trial of interim methadone maintenanceRobert P Schwartz
Friends Research Institute, Inc, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 63:102-9. 2006..Effective alternatives to long waiting lists for entry into methadone hydrochloride maintenance treatment are needed to reduce the complications of continuing heroin dependence and to increase methadone treatment entry...
- Neighborhood factors relevant for walking in older, urban, African American adultsNancy Ambrose Gallagher
University of Michigan School of Nursing, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
J Aging Phys Act 18:99-115. 2010..salient factors that emerged included the presence of other people, neighborhood surroundings, and safety from crime, followed by sidewalk and traffic conditions, animals, public walking tracks and trails, and weather...
- Searching for first-degree familial relationships in California's offender DNA database: validation of a likelihood ratio-based approachSteven P Myers
California Department of Justice Jan Bashinski DNA Laboratory, 1001 West Cutting Blvd, Suite 110, Richmond, CA 94804, USA
Forensic Sci Int Genet 5:493-500. 2011..An investigative lead created through this process recently led to an arrest in the Los Angeles Grim Sleeper serial murders...
- Psychiatric disorders and repeat incarcerations: the revolving prison doorJacques Baillargeon
Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health, University of Texas Medical Branch, 301 University Blvd, Galveston, TX 77555, USA
Am J Psychiatry 166:103-9. 2009..The authors examined this association in a retrospective cohort study of the nation's largest state prison system...
- Use of social audits to examine unofficial payments in government health services: experience in South Asia, Africa, and EuropeSergio Paredes-Solís
Centro de Investigacion de Enfermedades Tropicales, Universidad Autonoma de Guerrero, Acapulco, Mexico
BMC Health Serv Res 11:S12. 2011..We reviewed the main lessons from social audits of petty corruption in health services in South Asia (Bangladesh, Pakistan), Africa (Uganda and South Africa) and Europe (Baltic States)...
- Very early predictors of conduct problems and crime: results from a national cohort studyJoseph Murray
Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, Sidgwick Avenue, England
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 51:1198-207. 2010Longitudinal research has produced a wealth of knowledge about individual, family, and social predictors of crime. However, nearly all studies have started after children are age 5, and little is known about earlier risk factors.
- Summarizing the evidence on the international trade in illegal wildlifeGail Emilia Rosen
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, 80 Waterman Street, Providence, RI 02912, USA
Ecohealth 7:24-32. 2010....
- Human genetics. Finding criminals through DNA of their relativesFrederick R Bieber
Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Science 312:1315-6. 2006
- Schizophrenia, substance abuse, and violent crimeSeena Fazel
Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford OX3 7JX, England
JAMA 301:2016-23. 2009Persons with schizophrenia are thought to be at increased risk of committing violent crime 4 to 6 times the level of general population individuals without this disorder...
- Association between fear of crime and mental health and physical functioningMai Stafford
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, London, UK
Am J Public Health 97:2076-81. 2007Studies have reported an inverse association between fear of crime and subjective mental and physical health. We investigated the direction of causality and the curtailment of physical and social activities as a possible mediating pathway.
- Callous-unemotional traits and conduct problems in the prediction of conduct problem severity, aggression, and self-report of delinquencyPaul J Frick
Department of Psychology, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana 70148, USA
J Abnorm Child Psychol 31:457-70. 2003....
- Psychiatric symptoms in methamphetamine usersJoan E Zweben
East Bay Community Recovery Project, Oakland, CA, USA
Am J Addict 13:181-90. 2004..Findings continue to support the value of integrated treatment for co-occurring conditions, especially the importance of training counseling staff to handle psychotic symptoms when needed...
- A 30-year prospective follow-up study of hyperactive boys with conduct problems: adult criminalityJames H Satterfield
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 46:601-10. 2007....
- Association of prenatal and childhood blood lead concentrations with criminal arrests in early adulthoodJohn Paul Wright
Cincinnati Children s Environmental Health Center, Division of Criminal Justice, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
PLoS Med 5:e101. 2008..The objective of this study was to determine if prenatal and childhood blood lead concentrations are associated with arrests for criminal offenses...
- The accuracy of recidivism risk assessments for sexual offenders: a meta-analysis of 118 prediction studiesR Karl Hanson
Corrections Research, Public Safety Canada, Ontario, Canada
Psychol Assess 21:1-21. 2009..Further research should identify the psychologically meaningfully factors that contribute to risk for reoffending. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2009 APA, all rights reserved)...
- Prevalence and risk of violence and the physical, mental, and sexual health problems associated with human trafficking: systematic reviewSiân Oram
Section for Women s Mental Health, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, London, United Kingdom
PLoS Med 9:e1001224. 2012..This systematic review reports on studies investigating the prevalence and risk of violence while trafficked and the prevalence and risk of physical, mental, and sexual health problems, including HIV, among trafficked people...
- The impact of ADHD and conduct disorder in childhood on adult delinquency: a 30 years follow-up study using official crime recordsMarianne Mordre
Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, Norway
BMC Psychiatry 11:57. 2011..Of special interest was the impact of disturbance of activity and attention (ADHD) and mixed disorder of conduct and emotions on later delinquency, as these disorders have been variously associated with delinquent development...
- Screening for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: an evaluation of two self-report scales among crime victimsTamar D Wohlfarth
Department of Clinical Psychology, Free University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Psychol Assess 15:101-9. 2003..IES) and the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Symptom Scale, Self-Report version (PSS-SR) was examined among crime victims. Both instruments performed well as screeners for PTSD. For the IES, sensitivity ranged between .93 and 1...
- Crime, social capital, and community participationSusan Saegert
Graduate School, City University of New York, New York, New York 10016, USA
Am J Community Psychol 34:219-33. 2004..However,a very much smaller body of literature addresses the effects of crime on community organizations...
- Race-ethnicity, crime, and other factors associated with adherence to inhaled corticosteroidsL Keoki Williams
Department of Internal Medicine, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI 48202, USA
J Allergy Clin Immunol 119:168-75. 2007..Environmental stressors, such as crime exposure, which has been associated with asthma morbidity, might also predict ICS adherence.
- The relationship between risky alcohol consumption, crime and traffic accidents in Australian rural communitiesDennis J Petrie
University of Dundee, UK
Addict Behav 35:359-62. 2010To estimate the alcohol-attributable crime and traffic accidents for rural communities in Australia, controlling for potential bias.
- The population effect of crime and neighbourhood on physical activity: an analysis of 15,461 adultsRoger A Harrison
Evidence for Population Health Unit, Epidemiology and Health Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, UK
J Epidemiol Community Health 61:34-9. 2007..likely to be physically active, but no associations were found for vandalism, assaults, muggings or experience of crime. The number of physically active people would increase by 3290 if feelings of "unsafe" during the day were removed,..
- Crime, fear of crime, environment, and mental health and wellbeing: mapping review of theories and causal pathwaysTheo Lorenc
Department of Social and Environmental Health Research, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 15 17 Tavistock Place, London WC1H 9SH, UK
Health Place 18:757-65. 2012This paper presents the findings from a review of the theoretical and empirical literature on the links between crime and fear of crime, the social and built environment, and health and wellbeing...
- A comparative study of violence risk assessment tools: a systematic review and metaregression analysis of 68 studies involving 25,980 participantsJay P Singh
Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, UK
Clin Psychol Rev 31:499-513. 2011..Risk assessment procedures and guidelines by mental health services and criminal justice systems may need review in light of these findings...
- An overview of the "Positive Action for Today's Health" (PATH) trial for increasing walking in low income, ethnic minority communitiesDawn K Wilson
Department of Psychology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, United States
Contemp Clin Trials 31:624-33. 2010..The Positive Action for Today's Health (PATH) trial compares three communities that are randomly assigned to different levels of an environmental intervention to improve safety and access for walking in low income communities...
- From conduct disorder to severe mental illness: associations with aggressive behaviour, crime and victimizationS Hodgins
Department of Forensic Mental Health Science, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, UK
Psychol Med 38:975-87. 2008Conduct disorder (CD) prior to age 15 has been associated with an increased risk of aggressive behaviour and crime among men with schizophrenia...
- Bipolar disorder and violent crime: new evidence from population-based longitudinal studies and systematic reviewSeena Fazel
Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, England
Arch Gen Psychiatry 67:931-8. 2010Although bipolar disorder is associated with various adverse health outcomes, the relationship with violent crime is uncertain.
- Outlet density and criminal violence in Norway, 1960-1995T Norstrom
Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University, Sweden
J Stud Alcohol 61:907-11. 2000..To analyze the relationship between criminal violence and number of outlets for on-premise sales of alcohol...
- Socioeconomic status and chronic stress. Does stress account for SES effects on health?A Baum
University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 896:131-44. 1999..of important social and environmental conditions that contribute to chronic stress burden, including crowding, crime, noise pollution, discrimination, and other hazards or stressors...
- Association between perceived environmental attributes and physical activity among adults in Recife, BrazilPedro C Hallal
Post Graduate Program in Epidemiology, Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil
J Phys Act Health 7:S213-22. 2010..To evaluate the association between perceived environmental factors and leisure-time and transport-related physical activity...
- Reducing corruption in a Mexican medical school: impact assessment across two cross-sectional surveysSergio Paredes-Solís
Centro de Investigacion de Enfermedades Tropicales, Universidad Autonoma de Guerrero, Mexico
BMC Health Serv Res 11:S13. 2011....
- Lifetime criminality among boys with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: a prospective follow-up study into adulthood using official arrest recordsSalvatore Mannuzza
New York University Child Study Center, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA
Psychiatry Res 160:237-46. 2008....
- Childhood predictors of male criminality: a prospective population-based follow-up study from age 8 to late adolescenceAndre Sourander
Department of Child Psychiatry, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 45:578-86. 2006..To study childhood predictors for late adolescence criminality...
- Packers, pushers and stuffers--managing patients with concealed drugs in UK emergency departments: a clinical and medicolegal reviewR J Booker
Emergency Department, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth, UK
Emerg Med J 26:316-20. 2009..Guidance is given for doctors who are faced with requests from the authorities to perform intimate searches and diagnostic imaging for forensic purposes...
- Psychiatric morbidity, violent crime, and suicide among children and adolescents exposed to parental deathHolly C Wilcox
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21287 3325, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 49:514-23; quiz 530. 2010..This retrospective cohort study examined the risk for suicide, psychiatric hospitalization, and violent criminal convictions among offspring of parents who died from suicide, accidents, and other causes...
- Neighborhood and individual factors in activity in older adults: results from the neighborhood and senior health studyDiane King
Clinical Research Unit, Kaiser Permanente Colorado, Denver, CO 80237 8066, USA
J Aging Phys Act 16:144-70. 2008..01). For seniors, the importance of characteristics of the built environment in promoting PA and general activity engagement might be secondary to attributes of the social environment that promote safety and social cohesion...
- Alcohol abuse and crime: a fixed-effects regression analysisD M Fergusson
Christchurch School of Medicine, New Zealand
Addiction 95:1525-36. 2000To examine linkages between patterns of alcohol abuse and crime in a New Zealand birth cohort studied to the age of 21 taking into account confounding factors through the use of fixed-effects regression methods.
- Treating drug abuse and addiction in the criminal justice system: improving public health and safetyRedonna K Chandler
Services Research Branch, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
JAMA 301:183-90. 2009..We summarize relevant neuroscientific findings and evidence-based principles of addiction treatment that, if implemented in the criminal justice system, could help improve public heath and reduce criminal behavior...
- Predictors of antisocial personality. Continuities from childhood to adult lifeEmily Simonoff
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Guy s, King s and St Thomas Medical School and Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
Br J Psychiatry 184:118-27. 2004..Antisocial behaviour in adult life has its roots in childhood...
- Male and female offending trajectoriesDavid M Fergusson
Christchurch Health and Development Study, Christchurch School of Medicine, New Zealand
Dev Psychopathol 14:159-77. 2002..These risk factors appeared to operate in a similar fashion for both males and females. Implications of these findings for trajectory theories of offending are discussed...
- Violence, abuse, and crime exposure in a national sample of children and youthDavid Finkelhor
Crimes against Children Research Center, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire 03824, USA
Pediatrics 124:1411-23. 2009The objective of this research was to obtain national estimates of exposure to the full spectrum of the childhood violence, abuse, and crime victimizations relevant to both clinical practice and public-policy approaches to the problem.
- Pathways to depression: the impact of neighborhood violent crime on inner-city residents in Baltimore, Maryland, USAAaron Curry
Surveillance Data Incorporated, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Soc Sci Med 67:23-30. 2008b>Crime and neighborhood disorder may negatively impact the health of urban residents. Neighborhoods with high levels of violent crime may also increase residents' risk of experiencing violence...
- Fear of walking outdoors. A multilevel ecologic analysis of crime and disorderCaterina G Roman
The Urban Institute, Justice Policy Center, Washington, DC 20006, USA
Am J Prev Med 34:306-12. 2008..networks, the built environment, and active living, few neighborhood-based studies have considered the role of crime and violence...
- ISFG: recommendations regarding the use of non-human (animal) DNA in forensic genetic investigationsA Linacre
School of Biology, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
Forensic Sci Int Genet 5:501-5. 2011..of a species, or products derived from a species, which is contrary to legislation; as evidence where the crime is against a person or property; instances of animal cruelty; or where the animal is the offender...
- Doctors face trial for manslaughter as criminal charges against doctors continue to riseClare Dyer
BMJ 325:63. 2002
- Neighborhood disorder, psychophysiological distress, and healthTerrence D Hill
Department of Sociology, 336 Burdine Hall, University of Texas, University Station A1700, Austin, TX 78712 1008, USA
J Health Soc Behav 46:170-86. 2005..is the neighborhood where disadvantaged persons live, which may expose them to chronic stressors in the form of crime, trouble, harassment, and other potentially distressing signs of disorder and decay...
- Pervasive developmental disorders and criminal behaviour: a case control studySvend Erik Mouridsen
Bispebjerg University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol 52:196-205. 2008..1% and 18.4%, respectively. The corresponding rate of convictions in the comparison groups was 18.9%, 14.7%, and 19.6% respectively. Particular attention is given to arson in Asperger's syndrome (p= .0009)...
- Early identification of chronic offenders: who is the fledgling psychopath?D R Lynam
University of Kentucky, Department of Psychology, Lexington 40506 0044, USA
Psychol Bull 120:209-34. 1996..The author discusses treatment implications and supporting evidence for each model. Finally, he recommends that the subtype theory receive further consideration and examination...
- Body packing--the internal concealment of illicit drugsStephen J Traub
Department of Emergency Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, Bellevue Hospital Center, New York, USA
N Engl J Med 349:2519-26. 2003
- Medium secure forensic psychiatry services: comparison of seven English health regionsJ Coid
Forensic Psychiatry Research Unit, St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, UK
Br J Psychiatry 178:55-61. 2001..New standards are required for service specification and resource allocation to redress inequality. Traditional performance measures were of limited usefulness in comparing services...
- Crack across Canada: Comparing crack users and crack non-users in a Canadian multi-city cohort of illicit opioid usersBenedikt Fischer
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Univrersity of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Addiction 101:1760-70. 2006..To examine possible differences between crack users and crack non-users across Canada...
- Deviant peer affiliations, crime and substance use: a fixed effects regression analysisDavid M Fergusson
Christchurch School of Medicine, New Zealand
J Abnorm Child Psychol 30:419-30. 2002The present study was designed to assess the influence of deviant peer affiliations on crime and substance use in adolescence/young adulthood...
- Young adults, alcohol, crime and disorderAnna Richardson
Drugs and Alcohol Research Unit, Home Office, London, UK
Crim Behav Ment Health 13:5-16. 2003Alcohol-related crime is increasingly being recognized as a problem in cities and towns with popular entertainment districts...
- Using DNA to track the origin of the largest ivory seizure since the 1989 trade banSamuel K Wasser
Center for Conservation Biology, Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:4228-33. 2007..Such outcomes demonstrate the potential of genetic analyses to help combat the expanding wildlife trade by identifying origin(s) of large seizures of contraband ivory. Broader applications to wildlife trade are discussed...
- Establishments licensed to serve alcohol and their contribution to police-recorded crime in Australia: further opportunities for harm reductionShelley C Rowe
School of Medicine and Public Health, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan NSW, Australia
J Stud Alcohol Drugs 71:909-16. 2010..opportunities for reducing harm, has been limited by inadequate information regarding incidents of alcohol-related crime. To address this deficiency, this study was undertaken to describe the association between such establishments and ..
- Violent crime in Asperger syndrome: the role of psychiatric comorbidityStewart S Newman
University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA
J Autism Dev Disord 38:1848-52. 2008Although several studies have suggested an association between violent crime and Asperger syndrome (AS), few have examined the underlying reasons...
- Prozac and crime: who is the victim?Susan E Mason
Wurzweiler School of Social Work, Yeshiva University, New York, New York 10033, USA
Am J Orthopsychiatry 72:445-55. 2002..Defendants assert that they are victimized by their own involuntary intoxication or that of witnesses and crime victims who have been adversely influenced by Prozac...
- Are inner-cities bad for your health? Comparisons of residents' and third parties' perceptions of the urban neighbourhood of Gospel Oak, LondonRob Whitley
Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Sociol Health Illn 27:44-67. 2005..Finally, we warn against making assumptions of collective social and physical pathology in urban neighbourhoods, urging a more critical approach to the study of the inner-city in the health sciences...
- [Alcohol, drugs and crime]Miguel Chalub
Hospital de Custódia e Tratamento Psiquiátrico Heitor Carrilho, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil
Rev Bras Psiquiatr 28:S69-73. 2006..These problems are the psychoactive substance use disorder and crime. The form will be told as diverse researchers associate them, as well as the situation of the exam of users and ..
- Factors associated with history of non-fatal overdose among opioid users in the Swedish criminal justice systemA Hakansson
Clinical Alcohol Research, Lund University, Sweden, Malmo University Hospital, entrance 108, S 205 02 Malmo, Sweden
Drug Alcohol Depend 94:48-55. 2008..Overdose (OD) is a common cause of death in opioid users. Also, many current opioid users report a history of non-fatal OD. The present study aimed to identify factors associated with a history of non-fatal OD...
- Heritability, assortative mating and gender differences in violent crime: results from a total population sample using twin, adoption, and sibling modelsThomas Frisell
Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institute, PO Box 281, 171 77, Stockholm, Sweden
Behav Genet 42:3-18. 2012..4), appeared to result from both phenotypic assortment and social homogamy, but had only minor effect on variance components. Finally, we found significant gender differences in the etiology of violent crime.
- Antisocial personality disorder as a predictor of criminal behaviour in a longitudinal study of a cohort of abusers of several classes of drugs: relation to type of substance and type of crimeMats Fridell
Department of Psychology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
Addict Behav 33:799-811. 2008..001), and 2.44 times more likely to be charged committing multiple types of crime during an observation year (p<0.001)...
- Crime, hysteria and belle époque hypnotism: the path traced by Jean-Martin Charcot and Georges Gilles de la TouretteJulien Bogousslavsky
Department of Neurology and Neurorehabilitation, Clinique Valmont, Genolier Swiss Medical Network, Glion Montreux, Switzerland
Eur Neurol 62:193-9. 2009..susceptibility was identified with hysteria by Charcot and Gilles de la Tourette, who saw rape as the only crime associated with hypnotism...
- Effects of perceived reliability and generalization of crime-related information on detection in the concealed information testEitan Elaad
Ariel University Center, Ariel, Israel
Int J Psychophysiol 75:295-303. 2010..participants was assessed under varying levels of probability that the obtained information is related to the crime and is therefore correct...
- An evaluation of the effects of neighborhood mobilization on community problemsPatrick G Donnelly
Department of Sociology, Antrhopology and Social Work, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH 45469 1442, USA
J Prev Interv Community 32:61-80. 2006..of mini-neighborhoods with a series of gates to moderate traffic flow, increase neighborliness, and reduce crime. An analysis of official data from police crime reports shows that crime was significantly reduced in the ..
- Interim methadone treatment: impact on arrestsRobert P Schwartz
Friends Research Institute, Inc, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 103:148-54. 2009..It was hypothesized that IM participants would have a: (1) lower number of arrests at 6 and 12 months and (2) lower mean crime severity scores at 6 and 12 months post-baseline.
- Treatment at the front end of the criminal justice continuum: the association between arrest and admission into specialty substance abuse treatmentSheryl Pimlott Kubiak
School of Social Work, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA
Subst Abuse Treat Prev Policy 1:20. 2006..e., probation or parole status)...
- Crime and health: a preliminary study into the effects of crime on the mental health of UK university studentsP Morrall
Institute of Diagnostics and Therapeutics, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
J Psychiatr Ment Health Nurs 17:821-8. 2010In this paper we report on the findings from a preliminary study in the UK into the effects of crime on health...
- The risky business of body packers and body stuffersSheila Goertemoeller
Cincinnati Drug and Poison Information Center, Cincinnati, Ohio 45219, USA
J Emerg Nurs 32:541-4. 2006
- Epileptic automatisms in the criminal courts: 13 cases tried in England and Wales between 1975 and 2001Markus Reuber
Academic Neurology Unit, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
Epilepsia 49:138-45. 2008..To explore the relationship of epilepsy and criminal behavior...
- Clinical management of cocaine body packers: the Hillingdon experienceIan Beckley
Department of Surgery, Charing Cross Hospital, Fulham Palace Road, London, UK
Can J Surg 52:417-21. 2009..To date, however, a consistent approach for the management of these patients has not been established...
- Explaining the effectiveness of heroin-assisted treatment on crime reductionsRebecca Löbmann
Criminological Research Institute of Lower Saxony, Hanover, Germany
Law Hum Behav 33:83-95. 2009..The multivariate analysis reveals that the effects are due to a decrease of illegal drug use and absence from the drug scene...
- The effect of objectively measured crime on walking in minority adultsNoreen C McDonald
Department of City and Regional Planning, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 317 New East Building, CB 3140, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 3140, USA
Am J Health Promot 22:433-6. 2008Evaluate the relationship between neighborhood crime and the amount of daily walking by minority adults.
- Establishment of a definitive protocol for the diagnosis and management of body packers (drug mules)Nageswara Mandava
Department of Surgery, Caritas Health Care, New York Medical College Brooklyn and Queens Program, New York, USA
Emerg Med J 28:98-101. 2011..These people are otherwise healthy and their management should maintain minimal morbidity. In this study, experience with body packers is presented and an algorithm for conservative and surgical management is provided...
- Real-time forensic DNA analysis at a crime scene using a portable microchip analyzerPeng Liu
UCSF UC Berkeley Joint Graduate Group in Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Forensic Sci Int Genet 2:301-9. 2008..To critically evaluate the capabilities of our portable microsystem as well as its compatibility with crime scene investigation processes, real-time STR analyses were carried out at a mock crime scene prepared by the Palm ..
- Low cholesterol and violent crimeB A Golomb
Department of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 92093 0995, USA
J Psychiatr Res 34:301-9. 2000..Psychosom. Med 1994;56:479-84.). In this study we test for the first time whether cholesterol level is related to commission of violent crimes against others in a large community cohort...
- Methadone maintenance and drug-related crimeJ Bell
Drug and Alcohol Unit, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, NSW, Australia
J Subst Abuse 9:15-25. 1997..of methadone maintenance treatment, this study investigated factors associated with continued involvement in crime during treatment, and in particular whether there appeared to be differences in effectiveness of treatment between ..
- Criminal history and assault of dating partners: the role of type of prior crime, age of onset, and genderMurray A Straus
Family Research Laboratory, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, USA
Violence Vict 19:413-34. 2004..have found that most of the perpetrators are not violent outside the family, which suggests a specialized type of crime. However, other studies found domestic violence offenders tend to have extensive criminal histories...
- Effects of perceived and objective neighborhood crime on walking frequency among midlife African American women in a home-based walking interventionApril Y Oh
Health Promotion Research Branch, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, USA
J Phys Act Health 7:432-41. 2010b>Crime may be a significant barrier to physical activity for urban African American women, yet few studies have examined this relationship in intervention studies...
- Drug use, street crime, and sex-trading among cocaine-dependent women: implications for public health and criminal justice policyJ A Inciardi
Center for Drug and Alcohol Studies, University of Delaware, Newark 19716-2582, USA
J Psychoactive Drugs 33:379-89. 2001..Analyses focus on drug use, criminality and HIV/AIDS risk behaviors. Implications for policy alternatives in criminal justice and public health approaches for assisting this population are discussed...
- Child and adolescent psychiatric patients and later criminalityUlf Engqvist
Department of Women and Child Health, Karolinska Institutet, Astrid Lindgren Children s Hospital at Karolinska University Hospital, SE 171 76 Stockholm, Sweden
BMC Public Health 7:221. 2007..This study investigated the risk for patients treated 1975-1990 to be registered as criminals until the end of 2003...
- Predicting aberrant drug behavior in patients treated for chronic pain: importance of abuse historyEdward Michna
Pain Management Center, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Pain Symptom Manage 28:250-8. 2004..05). This study demonstrates that questions about abuse history and legal problems can be useful in predicting aberrant drug-related behavior with opioid use in persons with chronic noncancer pain...
- Identifying crime victims who are at high risk for post traumatic stress disorder: developing a practical referral instrumentT Wohlfarth
Department of Clinical Psychology, Free University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Acta Psychiatr Scand 105:451-60. 2002To construct a practical instrument for the identification and referral of crime victims who are at high risk for post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
- Who is at greatest risk of adverse long-term outcomes? The Finnish From a Boy to a Man studyAndre Sourander
Department of Child Psychiatry, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 46:1148-61. 2007..To study associations between comorbid psychopathology and long-term outcomes in a large birth cohort sample from age 8 to early adulthood...
- MULTIDIMENSIONAL HORMONAL ASSESSMENT OF PTSDSheila Wang; Fiscal Year: 1999..Thirty women with PTSD related to sexual trauma will be recruited from the Crime Victims Study Program at the University of South Carolina in Charleston...
- Treatment Implications of Trauma Memory Modulation for PTSD & Alcohol DependenceMichael E Saladin; Fiscal Year: 2010..placebo, administered immediately after exposure to scripted imagery of a crime-related trauma, on the subjective, physiological and stress responses occurring during a subsequent test session ..
- Community-based Methamphetamine Use & HIV Risk in ChinaBrian C Kelly; Fiscal Year: 2010..The United Nations Office on Drugs &Crime (2004) reports large increases in methamphetamine production and abuse in China...
- The Demography of Prisoner Reentry: Residential Moves & Changing Social ContextsJEFFREY D contact MORENOFF; Fiscal Year: 2010..Neighborhoods with high unemployment, poverty and crime rates are likely to have fewer resources that address the health and economic needs of returning prisoners, exert ..
- HDL Dysfunction and Vascular InflammationKirkwood A Pritchard; Fiscal Year: 2010..central role in impairing vascular dysfunction by determining how the sickling red cell raises up new "partner in crime" to induce vascular disease...
- GEMS: Geographic Enforcement Management Service for Liquor Control/Public SafetyJOSEPH KABEL; Fiscal Year: 2010..consumption by the perpetrator (Spunt et al 1995, Goldstein et al 1992), and almost one in four victims of violent crime report that the perpetrator had been drinking prior to committing the violent act (Greenfield 1998)...
- AIDS DEMONSTATION--THREE LEVELS OF METHADONE MAINTENANCEANNA CHILDRESS; Fiscal Year: 1990..criteria it is argued that more potential clients could be treated and in turn, the risks for continued drug use, crime, and AIDS could be reduced...
- Intimate Partner Violence Among Low-Income Pregnant Women: Multilevel AnalysisQing Li; Fiscal Year: 2005..were small in size (ranged from 157 cases locally to 1,440 couples nationally), and most mainly relied on police crime reports or national surveys, which are prone to selection and reporting bias...
- EFFECTS OF POVERTY ENVIRONMENTS ON ELDERLY WELL BEINGValerie Brown; Fiscal Year: 1991..of urban poverty environments and associated negative area social conditions (high rates of: juvenile delinquency; crime; unemployment; female head of house; welfare assistance; and teenage pregnancy; poor housing quality and age ..
- Implementing Evidence-Based Drug Treatment in Criminal Justice SettingsSteven Belenko; Fiscal Year: 2006..conference will be held in Philadelphia, PA under the direction of the Center on Evidence-based Interventions for Crime and Addiction (CEICA), housed at the Treatment Research Institute...
- Frontal Striatal Activity During Decision Making in Substance AbuseJody Tanabe; Fiscal Year: 2009..is substantial, estimated to be $180 billion reflecting costs related to health care, loss of productivity, crime, and social welfare (2004)...
- REDUCING BIAS--THE COMMON INGROUP IDENTITY MODELSAMUEL GAERTNER; Fiscal Year: 2001..as to minority groups involve the loss of human and financial resources as the result of unemployment, poverty, crime, drugs, ill-health, and personal, social and family dysfunction (see Bowser & Hunt, 1981; Jones, 1986; McLoyd, ..
- Disparities in sexually transmitted infections among young women: Role of individSARAH ELIZABETH WIEHE; Fiscal Year: 2010..High rates of incarceration and crime in a community have also been associated with higher STI prevalence in that community...
- COMMUNITY VIOLENCE & YOUTH: AFFECT, BEHAVIOR, ACADEMICSMICHELE COOLEY; Fiscal Year: 2009..Poverty and crime have disproportionately impacted ethnic minority communities (Reese et al., 2001)...
- Changes in Health Care Access and Utilization in the US-Mexico Border RegionKIMBERLEY LYNN H GEISSLER; Fiscal Year: 2011..Since 2006, violent crime has risen rapidly in the northern Mexican states;this violent crime is likely to increase the cost of crossing the ..
- WORKSITE INTERVENTION TO REDUCE ASSAULT INJURYJess Kraus; Fiscal Year: 2000..about compliance to or long-term effects of these programs, and that few evaluations controlled for trends in crime rates...
- Obesity and the Environment: The Transition to AdulthoodPenny Gordon Larsen; Fiscal Year: 2007..g., public and public gyms, recreation facilities, crime rates) that explain the differential distribution of physical activity and overweight patterns by ethnicity and ..
- Strengthening social capital to reduce youth violenceTrudy Harpham; Fiscal Year: 2003..research in the USA by Sampson et at (1997) has demonstrated the association between social capital and violent crime, which is independent of poverty levels...
- Reducing Cocaine/Heroin Abuse with SR-Amphetamine and BuprenorphineMark Greenwald; Fiscal Year: 2009..public health, social, and economic problems via increased risk of medical and psychiatric morbidities, crime, and poor treatment outcome...
- BEHAVIORAL MECHANISM IN HIGH RISK POPULATIONSDON CHEREK; Fiscal Year: 2001..and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), are associated with an increased risk for drug dependence, crime and other antisocial behaviors...
- ELDER VICTIMIZATION--A PILOT FEASIBILITY STUDYRonald Acierno; Fiscal Year: 2000..this pilot feasibility study will enable researchers to efficiently conduct a population-based national study of crime against elders and its effects...