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Mar 20, 2021 · Methods Using unpublished data from 166 countries covering the period between 2006 and 2019, the article describes the geographical distribution across global regions and trends over time of three ...
Jun 17, 2013 · A case study of an online behaviour system in crime. This study investigates social media fraud facilitated by botnets to understand the onset and maturation of this new online offending behaviour and concludes that the rise in cybercrime is a result of the behaviours of all actors in the system, not just those who offend.
Sep 28, 2022 · Rising rates of youth-involved knife crime in London and Croydon have created a culture of fear, drawing criticism of criminal justice practices which aim to tackle this issue.
- Emily Brenner
- Gallup World Poll Data
- Gallup Sample of Countries
- Measures
- Analytic Strategy
Two out of the broad range of Gallup World Poll’s many items relate to experiences with theft and violent crime respectively. We use these data from all Gallup World Poll surveys held in the 14-year period 2006–2019. The surveys are conducted in over 160 countries worldwide, making up more than 98% of the world’s adult population. The target popula...
Our sample of countries comprises all countries for which data on victimization of theft and assault are available in the Gallup World Poll over the years 2006–2019. This set of countries includes a total of 166 countries out of the 190 countries recognised by the United Nations during that period. Missing countries are all relatively small with th...
Common Crime Measures
In our study we focus on two questions in the GWP-questionnaire pertaining to the actual experience of victimization by common crimes, i.e., whether a victim of theft (“Within the past 12 months, have you had money or property stolen from you or another household member?”) and whether a victim of violence, i.e., assault or mugging (“Within the past 12 months have you been assaulted or mugged?”). We constructed three measures on victimization of common crime based on these two questions. First...
Homicide
To monitor progress towards achieving crime-related Sustainable Development Goals the United Nations recommends the use of homicide statistics besides survey-based data on violence (UNODC 2019). The WHO collects data on homicide from public health sources through a dataset on the causes of mortality. The UNODC collects data primarily from criminal justice sources, although for some countries the UNODC relies on public health data. Where both criminal justice and public health sources exist, t...
Organised Crime
Organised crime is defined in the UN Convention on Transnational Organised Crime as the commission of ‘serious crimes by a structured group of three or more persons for material gain’. This definition has been specified by listing secondary characteristics such as high-level corruption, money-laundering, infiltration in the legal economy, and instrumental violence (Fijnaut and Paoli 2004). An item in the survey of the World Economic Forum (WEF) asks business executives, “In your country, to w...
The first aim of our analyses is to describe the geographical distribution across global regions, sub-regions and countries in people’s experiences with crime in countries for the period 2006–2019. To do this, we use data for the entire 14-year period, but in order to take possible changes over time into account, also for the periods 2006–2009, 201...
- Jan van Dijk, Paul Nieuwbeerta, Jacqueline Joudo Larsen
- 2021
Susan W. Brenner. Bloomsbury Publishing USA, Feb 26, 2010 - Social Science - 296 pages. This fascinating and timely book traces the emergence and evolution of cybercrime as an increasingly intransigent threat to society.Cybercrime: Criminal Threats from Cyberspace is intended to explain two things: what cybercrime is and why the average citizen ...
Jul 2, 2024 · Bronfenbrenner’s ecological theory is appealing as a conceptual tool for guiding public mental health interventions. However, his theory underwent significant changes since its first inception ...
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Oct 16, 2023 · FBI crime data from 2021 contained significant gaps and was based largely on estimates due to a transition in the way agencies report crime to the bureau. The tables on this page exclude 2021 data accordingly, instead making a direct comparison between 2022 and 2020, which is the most recent prior year in which a comparable number of agencies participated.
