... into the second, deriving an average cost for each crime. We then assume that the average arrest is punishment for this average crime and that each capture is worth the amount derived[1]. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Cost/benefit analysis Crime Offenders Although chases are more likely to produce...

... for the social sciences where concepts and terms involve shades of meanings. Outlines the essential mathematics behind this approach and develops a technique that could be useful in building offender profiles from fuzzy descriptions provided by witnesses. Also suggests several other possible areas...

...Maurice Godwin; David Canter The locations at which each of 54 US serial killers, who had each killed at least ten people, first encountered their victims (PFE) and later dumped their bodies (BD) were examined in relation to the residence of the offender in order to test three hypotheses: the home...

... processing. © MCB UP Limited 1997 Community relations Crime Offenders Police USA Young people A primary focus of classic studies of policing in the 1960s and 1970s was on police interaction with juveniles (Black and Reiss, 1970; Lundman et al., 1978; Piliavin and Briar, 1964...

... riots. © MCB UP Limited 1995 Coercive force Offenders Siege tactics Urban riots USA ...