[Netherlands] Neighborhood Characteristics and Individual Homicide Risks: Effects of Social Cohesion, Confidence in the Police, and Socioeconomic Disadvantage
Homicide Studies, Vol. 12, No. 1, 90-116 (2008)
http://hsx.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/12/1/90
Paul Nieuwbeerta ; Patricia L. McCall ; Henk Elffers ; Karin Wittebrood
"This study tests hypotheses on the relationship between characteristics of neighbourhoods in the Netherlands (their socioeconomic disadvantage, social cohesion, and residents' confidence in the police) and the likelihood of homicide victimisation."
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The Wisdom of the Chaperones: Digg, Wikipedia, and the myth of Web 2.0 democracy / Slate, 22 February 2008
http://slate.com/id/2184487
Chris Wilson
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Employers on ‘suicide watch’ after Lords ruling on ex-employee suicide / Personnel Today, 28 February 2008
http://digbig.com/4wnar
Mike Berry
"Employers could be held liable for the suicides of ex-employees after a landmark ruling by the House of Lords."

Facial fiction becoming fact / Officer.com, January 2008
http://digbig.com/4wnaq
Andrew Langerman
"Facial recognition tecnhologies continue to improve in performance
Millions of people have tuned in to "24" and watched Jack Bauer take a picture of a suspect's face, send it to his central office and within seconds get an ID of someone on a watch list. Today, this fiction is reality, thanks to the increasing usefulness and effectiveness of facial recognition technology."

Crime, Corrections, and California: What Does Immigration Have to Do with It?
California Counts: population trends and profiles, Volume 9 Number 3 • February 2008
PDF - http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/cacounts/CC_208KBCC.pdf
Kristin F. Butcher and Anne Morrison Piehl with research support from Jay Liao
"Few issues are as contentious as immigration and crime. Concern over the effects of immigration on crime is longstanding, and bans against criminal aliens constituted some of the earliest restrictions on immigration to the United States (Kanstroom, 2007). More recently, policies adopted in the mid-1990s greatly expanded the scope of acts for which noncitizens may be expelled from the United States. Even so, many calls to curtail immigration, particularly illegal immigration, appeal to public fears about immigrants’ involvement in criminal activities. Are such fears justified?"

The Cybercrime Service Economy / Harvard Business Blog, 1 February 2008
http://digbig.com/4wnap
Scott Berinato
"Anyone who doubts that internet commerce faces serious threats from online criminals should consider this: Criminal hacking has spawned a full-blown service economy—one that supports growing legions of relatively lower-skilled but fulsomely larcenous hackers."

12 Steps to Stop Scapegoating in Your Company / Harvard Business Blog, 20 February 2008
http://digbig.com/4wnan
Gill Corkindale
"Have you ever watched as a work colleague has been blamed, exposed or dismissed for the mistakes of their boss or colleague? What have been the effects on the individual and their colleagues? How has it been handled?"

Increases in Poisoning and Methadone-Related Deaths: United States, 1999-2005 / US. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 20 February 2008
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/hestats/poisoning/poisoning.htm
Lois A. Fingerhut
"In 2005, poisoning remained the second leading cause of injury death in the United States, after surpassing firearms for the first time in 2004. The vast majority of poisoning deaths are due to unintentional drug overdoses. Narcotic-related deaths have played the largest role in the increase in all poisoning deaths from 1999 to 2005 (the years for which data are available). They accounted for 56 percent of all poisoning deaths in 2005, increasing from 50 percent in 1999. Their absolute numbers increased 84 percent over the 7 years. Methadone-related deaths have increased more than other narcotic-related deaths."

Report: 1 In Every 99 Americans Now Behind Bars / WCBSTV, 28 February 2008
http://wcbstv.com/national/prison.americans.prison.2.665053.html
"US Spent More Than $49 Billion On Corrections In 2007"

[USA] DASIS: Marital Status and Substance Abuse Treatment Admissions: 2005. / US. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, January 2008
http://ncadistore.samhsa.gov/catalog/productDetails.aspx?ProductID=17755

Childhood sexual abuse and non-suicidal self-injury: meta-analysis
British Journal of Psychiatry (2008) 192: 166-170
http://bjp.rcpsych.org/cgi/content/abstract/192/3/166?etoc
E. David Klonsky and Anne Moyer
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Drugs: protecting families and communities: How we are working to tackle drugs / Home Office, February 2008
PDF - http://digbig.com/4wnam

[USA] 2008 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report / US. Department of State, February 2008
Volume I: Drug and Chemical Control
http://www.state.gov/p/inl/rls/nrcrpt/2008/vol1/
Volume II: Money Laundering and Financial Crimes
http://www.state.gov/p/inl/rls/nrcrpt/2008/vol2/
"The International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) is an annual report by the Department of State to Congress prepared in accordance with the Foreign Assistance Act. It describes the efforts of key countries to attack all aspects of the international drug trade in Calendar Year 2007."

THE INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL BOARD: CURRENT TENSIONS AND OPTIONS FOR REFORM / INTERNATIONAL DRUG POLICY CONSORTIUM, FEBRUARY 2008
PDF - http://digbig.com/4wnah
IDPC BRIEFING PAPER 7

[Australia] Supporting the families of young people with problematic drug use : investigating support options / Australian National Council on Drugs, January 2008
PDF - http://www.ancd.org.au/publications/pdf/rp15_supporting_families.pdf
Sally Frye ; Sharon Dawe ; Paul Harnett ; Sascha Kowalenko ; Moana Harlen
ANCD research paper

[Canada] Recovering addicts often a workplace plus
Business Edge, 22 February 2008 - Vol. 8, No. 4
http://www.businessedge.ca/article.cfm/newsID/17242.cfm
Laura Severs
"Treatment helps employees come back stronger, insiders say"

[USA] Strategies to control bupe abuse outlined / Baltimore Sun, 23 February 2008
http://digbig.com/4wnag
Doug Donovan and Fred Schulte
"Amid growing illegal sales and abuse of buprenorphine, top federal officials outlined yesterday action they might take to curb problems with the addiction-treatment drug, including more precise detection methods, improved training of doctors and stronger warning labels for patients."

'Tamper-proof' chip and PIN terminals hacked / silicon.com, 27 February 2008
http://www.silicon.com/financialservices/0,3800010322,39170202,00.htm
Tom Espiner
"Cambridge University researchers steal PIN numbers and card details."

Why no united front on cyber crime? / Silicon.com, 27 February 2008
http://management.silicon.com/government/0,39024677,39170197,00.htm
Simon Moores
"Divided we fall…
The threat of terrorism is soaking up funds badly needed to combat cyber crime. So how big does the problem have to become before governments act?"

'Out of office' messages turned into spam relays / TechDirt, 26 February 2008
http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=11544
Matthew Broersma
"Spammers have found a new trick that gets around many current anti-spam filters: abusing the "out of the office" auto-respond feature found in legitimate webmail services."