Do stickers indicating the use of forensic property marking prevent burglary? Results from a randomized controlled trial

Journal of Experimental Criminology - This paper examines whether the posting of sticker decals indicating the use of forensic property marking deters burglary. The study is a randomized controlled...     

Attitudes toward Rape Victims - an Empirical Study of the Attitudes of Danish Website Visitors

This study of the effects that supervision has on offenders in Denmark is based on the opinions of the offenders themselves. The special methodological problems of a study of this kind are discussed. Most clients say they benefit from supervision and many feel that supervision helps them in trying to live a law-abiding life. This surprising finding is explained primarily by the position of supervision as an extension of the common social security system, which often cannot cope with multi-problem offenders. The study, furthermore, underlines a basic but mostly disregarded condition for achieving success in helping and treating offenders: the relationship between offender and helper.