Men's lethal and nonlethal violence against an intimate female partner are compared. Various risk factors examined to compare men's woman partner. Relative abusers, men who kill generally more conventional with respect childhood backgrounds, education, employment, criminal careers, likely be possessive jealous, separated from their at the time of event. Men have used a previous partner, sexually assaulted strangled victim, weapon or instrument. However, they were less been drunk event and/or...

Despite a growing concern about gangs in Britain, academic research that focuses on remains scarce. Drawing data from the ESRC-funded ethnographic YOGEC (Youth Gangs an English City) project, this paper explores negotiation of space and place by young people living inner-city areas affected gangs. Using combination fieldwork observations focus group interview data, charts experiences non-gang-involved known gang areas. These people's restricted use space, arising as result rivalries policing...

Abstract The Domestic Abuse, Stalking and Honour Based Violence (DASH) form is a standardized risk assessment implemented across most UK police forces. It intended to facilitate an officer’s structured professional judgment about the victim faces of serious harm at hand their abuser. Until now, it has been open question whether this tool works in practice. Here, we present largest scale European study, making case that underperforming. Each element DASH questionnaire is, best, weakly...

This article uses data from the Offending Crime and Justice Survey, a representative survey of young people in England Wales, to estimate factors that affect likelihood police-initiated contacts. Although official clearly show members ethnic minorities are disproportionally approached by police their use powers stop search, we have only partial understanding relevance ethnicity net other factors. Our findings suggest even when control for sociodemographic factors, self-reported illegal...

Abstract For decades, criminologists have been aware of the severe consequences dark figure police records for crime prevention strategies. Crime surveys are developed to address limitations statistics as data sources, and estimates produced from can mitigate biases in data. This paper produces small area crimes unknown at local neighbourhood levels Survey England Wales explore geographical inequality crime. The is larger not only cities that deprived but also wealthy municipalities....

This article summarizes the findings from first nationally representative survey on intimate partner violence conducted in Spain. Although feminist groups have been very active advocacy of solutions for this problem Spain past two decades, it was not until 1997 that received general attention public, after a particularly dramatic case wife abuse shocked Spanish society. The also raises questions about measurement against women and argues is crucial to incorporate subjective perception abuse....

The widespread introduction of risk assessment tools and procedures for domestic abuse has promoted expectations that such activities can be quickly administered in the field, high quality, sustainable face increasing demand. Despite considerable achievements have been made, this article argues police remains under-theorized and, British case, under-researched. Furthermore, research tended to focus on validity detriment identifying effective systems procedures. This ultimately questions...

This paper incorporates an explicit mobility dimension into the definition of neighbourhood and explores its possible implications for study spatially distributed phenomena. We analysed distribution robbery theft in Barcelona, Spain, as a testing application. Crime data were aggregated to nonoverlapping units (census tracts) new measure overlapping neighbourhoods, that we named 'walkhoods', accounting distance can be covered 5 min at walking speed 1 m/s, considering all physical barriers....

Street robbery offences can be perpetrated in a variety of ways. Offenders adopt particular method conducting the offence that appears to closely related underlying purpose and type victim is targeted. This paper reviews existing research presents new findings relating "decisions" involved commission street from perspective offenders. Twenty face-to-face interviews were undertaken with offenders convicted robbery. Findings specifically focus on modus operandi employed by based their...

Parent‐focused interventions are a potentially effective tool for preventing and reducing gang involvement, although the challenges of delivering such services considerable. Drawing from data collected over 26 months ethnographic study, Youth Gangs in an English City, including interviews with parents gang‐involved young people, we identify potential obstacles. These include: psychological barriers to participation relating perceived denial, stigma blame; possible counter‐productivity...

This paper examines the conceptual and empirical adequacy of Eurogang Network’s survey measurement gang membership. Using data from a nationally representative young people in England Wales, we employed latent class analysis to model variation characteristics peer groups. We found that while items identified distinct group involved more frequent serious offending, this definition also extended separate whose only ‘vice’ was recreational drug use. discuss validity extending ‘gang’ label...

Although the developmental perspective has become a leading paradigm in criminology, little attention been paid to onset of offending and life course murderers within this tradition. We use bivariate Multiple Correspondence Analysis investigate criminal careers three groups among UK sample 786 men convicted murder. The early-onset group (20% sample) is more likely have experienced significant problems childhood adulthood. no-offending (10% least had problematic backgrounds. childhoods...

This essay analyses changes in public discourses about crime and justice Spain during its political transition to democracy. The shadow of Franco's regime, the salience terrorism, need Conservatives offer a moderate image because their association old regime consensus around nominal preponderance values penal welfarism context which there were little qualms use prison contributed ‘invisibility’ common street as issue. situation changed new millennium when started reap profits from policies...

Objectives: This article aims to apply a “turning points” framework for understanding the developmental impacts of gang membership in British sample young people. The study explores proximal impact on offending, victimization, and number attitudinal experiential outcomes that have been theorized mediate relationship between offending. Method: authors used data from Offending Crime Justice Survey, rotating panel representative people England Wales measured using Eurogang definition. effects...

High profile breaches of data security in government and other organizations are becoming an increasing concern amongst members the public. Academic researchers have rarely discussed issues as they affect research, this is especially case for qualitative social researchers, who sometimes disinclined to technical solutions. This paper describes 14 guidelines developed help improve their digitally-created stored data. We these procedures after theft a laptop computer containing highly...

Worry about crime is known to be higher in some European regions than others. However, cross-national surveys, which are the main source of information map worry across Europe, designed representative large areas (countries), and often suffer from small unrepresentative sample sizes. This research produces reliable model-based area estimates at regional level Social Survey data, order phenomenon examine its macro-level predictors. Model-based estimation techniques borrow strength produce...

Domestic abuse victim risk assessment is crucial for providing victims with the correct level of support. However, it has been shown that approach currently taken by most UK police forces, Abuse, Stalking, and Honour Based Violence (DASH) assessment, not identifying vulnerable victims. Instead, we tested several machine learning algorithms propose a predictive model, using logistic regression elastic net as best performing, incorporates information readily available in databases,...

Ending Gang and Youth Violence: A Cross Governmental Report including further evidence good practice case studies (EGYV) (HM Government, 2011) describes the Coalition's attempts to develop a coordinated policy strategy reduce gang related more general youth violence. The report extends 84 pages, 23 headline measures, refers over 60 reputedly relevant initiatives. Amidst some refreshingly honest admissions ('We understand that you can't arrest your way out of problem'), significant emphases...

But who is this creature with terrible claws/And teeth in its jaws?/He has knobbly knees and turned out toes/And a poisonous wart on the end of his nose/His eyes are orange, tongue black/He purple prickles all over back/Oh help! Oh no! It's Gruffalo!(Donaldson, 1999)Youth violence, like most other forms violence been falling steadily recent years. Despite – or perhaps because policy responses have begun to rely increasingly spectre ‘the gang’ as trope for representing serious youth crime,...