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The impact of later trading hours for bars and clubs on alcohol-related ambulance call-outs and crimes in Scotland: a controlled interrupted time series study

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Crime, Crime News, and Crime Views

Public Opinion Quarterly, 1981
This paper compares police, newspaper, television, and public images of crime trends for the seven FBI index crimes over time, the relative frequency of occurrence of these offenses, and the characteristics of persons committing them. Media presentations of crime trends over time are found generally Linrelated to trends in police statistics.
Joseph F. Sheley, Cindy D. Ashkins
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It is a theft but not a crime [PDF]

open access: possibleEuropean Journal of Political Economy, 2007
Abstract Why do people who normally refrain from committing illegalities become digital pirates? In this paper we use a theoretical model of digital piracy combined with a game-theoretic mechanism of social norm formation to argue that no social stigma is attached to digital piracy because the latter has no perceived social cost; therefore, there is ...
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Alcohol and Crime

2013
Alcohol is massively associated with crime. Evidence from the British Medical Association found that alcohol use is associated with 60-70 per cent of murders, 70 per cent of stabbings, 50 per cent of fights or assaults in the home. For non-violent offences the association is very strong as well: 88 per cent of those arrested for criminal damage, 83 per
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When a Crime is not a Crime

2012
Necessity would appear to be an unambiguous concept. Yet in criminal law, where it serves as a justification for otherwise criminal acts if they bring high societal benefit, necessity only rarely brings acquittal. Historically there might be a good justification for this, but in evolved societies it would appear that necessity could be given a broader ...
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