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Notable criminology studies from international sources

By Douglas A. Berman

Catching up with some of the SSRN pieces in my in-box, I discovered these two notable criminology pieces from researchers working outside the USA: Crime, Economic Conditions, Social Interactions and Family Heritage Abstract: This paper tests whether factors referring to socio-economic aspects, family heritage, social interaction, habits and customs explain differences among violent and non-violent prisoners.  Some of the results of the probit estimation show that economic issues are the main factors that stimulate the practice of non-violent crime.  On the other hand, violent crimes results suggest that factors related to family heritage reduce this kind of crime.  In relation to variables of social interaction, prisoners who were brought up in a good neighborhood have a lower probability of committing violent crimes...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on September 07, 2009 (boomark / email).