Antonia Linde

• Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

Cet article cherche à établir si la numérisation de la société devrait conduire à une adaptation des théories en criminologie comparée ou si elle entraîne un changement de para-digme explicatif. Il montre que la numérisation est un phénomène plus global que la modernisation et que les indicateurs traditionnels de la criminalité n'ont pas bien saisi...

This paper studies trends in female homicide victimization in Spain from 1910 to 2014 and puts them in relation with several indicators of the evolution of women’s roles and status in the society. According to mortality statistics, female homicide victimization followed an overall upward trend interrupted only during the periods in which the countr...

This paper addresses whether improvements in healthcare that have taken place since the second half of the twentieth century have contributed to a decrease in the number of homicide victims in Germany. Our study accessed data on healthcare medical resources, mortality, and life expectancy primarily from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the O...

This chapter introduces the available research on long-term crime trends and shows the major role that cross-national comparisons have played since the nineteenth century, revealing that the first researchers were fully aware of such comparisons’ pitfalls. Since then, most research has focused on homicide trends—often used as a proxy for trends in...

In the field of punishment, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the correccionalista doctrine, developed in the framework of the positivist school of criminology, had a particular influence in Spain. This doctrine was represented in Spain by Pedro Dorado Montero and Concepción Arenal, who advocated the redemption of the offender....

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This article examines the evolution of prison populations in Western Europe from 1982 to 2011 and its relation with recorded crime trends in the region. Data are taken mainly from the Council of Europe Annual Penal Statistics in the case of prison statistics and the European Sourcebook of Crime and Criminal Justice Statistics in the case of police...

This article analyses rates and correlates of homicide in 15 West European countries from 1960 to 2010. The results show that the levels of homicide in 2010 and the trends in homicide from 1960 to 2010 are not related to any of the traditional demographic and socioeconomic predictors of crime. Homicide victimization rates show an increase from the...

Convictions statistics were the first criminal statistics available in Europe during the nineteenth century. Their main weaknesses as crime measures and for comparative purposes were identified by Alphonse de Candolle in the 1830s. Currently, they are seldom used by comparative criminologists, although they provide a less valid but more reliable me...

This chapter analyzes the relationship between homicide and other external causes of death such as suicide, motor vehicle traffic accidents and work-related accidents across Europe. It also compares homicide to other violent offences and to property offences. The comparison is both cross-sectional and longitudinal, identifying regional variations i...

The so-called crime drop observed in the United States since the beginning of the 1990s led to an impressive number of publications in which different criminologists provide various and sometimes contradictory explanations for an evolution of crime that they had not foreseen. 1 Since 2006, some authors (e.g. van Dijk, 2006; van Dijk, van Kesteren a...

Combining data from police statistics and crime victim surveys, this article analyses the evolution of crime in Western Europe from 1988 to 2007. The results show that there is no general drop in crime. Property offences and homicide have been decreasing since the mid 1990s, while violent and drug offences have increased during the period under stu...

Analisa as estatísticas policiais da Espanha buscando averiguar se as informações registradas permitem estabelecer séries históricas sobre a evolução da delinquência em escala nacional. Verifica detalhadamente os dados publicados pelo Ministério do Interior e pela polícia, concluindo que as informações são incompletas ou generalizadas apresentando...