The meaning and change of Official crime(公罪) and Personal crime(私罪) in the late Joseon period

Subway sex offenses are a serious issue in the nations around world, but existing research has failed to explore the offense types or patterns systematically. In order to fill this gap, the authors employed Crime Script Analysis (CSA) to examine the two most common subway sex offenses in Seoul, South Korea. Specifically, the authors assessed the reasoning behind the steps taken to prepare for, carry out, and complete harassment and surreptitious recording. The offenses committed in the subway stations around the city of Seoul were analyzed based on the interviews with the subway police, official crime reports, and crime case files. Drawing from the findings, theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

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Official crime statistics – no reassurance for the victims of crime

Psychiatric Bulletin ◽

10.1192/pb.21.5.258 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 21 (5) ◽

pp. 258-259

Author(s):

Tom McClintock

Keyword(s):

Crime Statistics ◽

Victims Of Crime ◽

Official Crime

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Resident Perceptions of Crime: How Similar are They to Official Crime Rates?

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.1015606 ◽

2007 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

John R. Hipp

Keyword(s):

Crime Rates ◽

Resident Perceptions ◽

Perceptions Of Crime ◽

Official Crime

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Law and order in the USSR: The case of economic and official crime

Soviet Studies ◽

10.1080/09668138408411539 ◽

1984 ◽

Vol 36 (3) ◽

pp. 366-385 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Nick Lampert

Keyword(s):

Law And Order ◽

Official Crime

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Crime and Architectural Style

Criminal Justice and Behavior ◽

10.1177/0093854884011002003 ◽

1984 ◽

Vol 11 (2) ◽

pp. 179-196 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

TIMOTHY S. BYNUM ◽

DAN M. PURRI

Keyword(s):

Sense Of Community ◽

Property Crime ◽

Positive Association ◽

Large Degree ◽

Crime Rates ◽

Social Scientists ◽

High Rise ◽

Reported Crime ◽

High Crime ◽

Official Crime

Historically, social scientists have argued that human behavior is, to a large degree, a response to environmental conditions. Recently, a group of criminologists have posited a direct relationship between certain environmental structures and reported crime rates. Studies exploring this area have pointed to the association between crme rates and highrise residences as support for their position. However, several serious weaknesses exist in this previous research. High-rise structures are generally either in high crime areas or are luxury apartments with guarded entrances. In addition, such research is generally based on official crime data. The present study investigates, through victimization techniques, the experiences of residents of several high- and low-rise structures in a traditionally low crime area: the college campus. In addition, measures of the respondent's sense of community were employed to address the self-policing hypothesis of the environmental design approach. Although causality cannot be inferred from the findings, a positive association was observed between high-rise areas and property crime rates. Furthermore, both of these variables were negatively associated with the respondents' sense of community.

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The Detective as Wage-Earner and Official Crime Fighter

The Ascent of the Detective ◽

10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199577408.003.0004 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 101-144

Author(s):

Haia Shpayer-Makov

Keyword(s):

Wage Earner ◽

Official Crime

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Border Residents’ Perceptions of Crime and Security in El Paso, Texas

Social Sciences ◽

10.3390/socsci9030024 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (3) ◽

pp. 24 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Ernesto Castañeda ◽

Casey Chiappetta

Keyword(s):

El Paso ◽

Large City ◽

Border Region ◽

Ciudad Juarez ◽

Foreign Born ◽

Sense Of Security ◽

Mexico Border ◽

Perceptions Of Crime ◽

Official Crime ◽

The U.S

Research has continued to show the overall safety of the U.S. border region contrary to the widespread belief about the insecurity of the U.S.-Mexico border and frequent claims for the need to secure the border in order to prevent the spread of violence into the rest of the country. Rarely do we ask how border residents feel about safety and crime, which could shed significant light on the claims that the border is an insecure warzone posing a threat to the entire country. While calls to secure national borders are common, outsiders’ perceptions of an unsafe border are not supported by official crime rates and statistics, Border Patrol apprehensions, or the everyday experiences of people in American cities along the U.S.-Mexico border. This paper investigates the perception of crime and security, as expressed by the residents of El Paso, Texas, a large city located along the U.S.-Mexico border and directly across from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Data come from a National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded survey that asked 919 residents about their perceptions of crime, sense of security and safety in their neighborhood and the city in general. The results show that the overwhelming majority of border city residents feel safe and that those who are undocumented and raised in El Paso are the most likely to report feeling safe or very safe. We also find that the foreign-born population had a statistically significant lower felony conviction rate than those who were U.S.-born, an important qualifier in discussions over immigration and its connection with violence and crime. Contrary to sensationalized claims about border violence, residents of El Paso do not display any of the sense of insecurity experienced in neighboring Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. We present hypotheses about possible causes for these low levels of violence in the U.S.-side of the border and discuss the dissonance between the reality on the border and perception outside of the border region.

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