Safety and its opposite, fear of crime, are two important and central issues in crime prevention efforts. Recent years have brought a significant increase in the number of studies...
In Denmark robbery is considered a very serious crime as it contains elements of both enrichment and violence or coercion. The maximum penalty for robbery is thus also considerably...
Because crime is primarily a youth phenomenon, and because people under the age of 24 are overrepresented 3 to 1 in the criminal justice system, there is good reason to prevent...
Measuring public perceptions of safety The Veiligheidsmonitor Rijk 2007 [Government Security Monitor 2007, only in Dutch] measures both objective and perceived safety. Objective...
VEHICLE CRIME Criminality of car stealing after 1989 has become the focus of attention not only of the police, criminologists and investigators, but also the entire society and...
Certain forms of what is known in Sweden as ‘robbery offences can be regarded as volume crime, which is a priority issue for the Swedish Government (read more under ‘vehicle crime)...
Many people are affected in their everyday lives by vandalism, burglary and vehicle-related crime, such as theft from or vandalism of cars. This ‘volume crime has considerable...
Since a criminal career often starts in early youth, normally before the age of criminal responsibility, the Swedish Government considers early and clear measures to prevent or...
Within the meaning of the Slovak Criminal Act the criminal act of robbery, the characteristics of which are referred to in section 188, is considered to have taken place if the...