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Since December 2008, police forces in the UK have published crime statistics using an online crime mapping tool (www.police.uk). The drivers behind this were to help improve the credibility and confidence that the public had in police-reported crime levels, address perceptions of crime, promote community engagement and empowerment, and support greater public service transparency and accountability. This article captures the policy rationale behind this initiative, and draws together the research evidence on its impact. We argue that many of the original objectives relating to improving engagement and empowerment have yet to be realized, poor cartographic discipline has led to misinterpretation and confusion, and that the initiative instead has primarily become a tool for promoting political transparency. We suggest that future focus should be on improving the quality and cartographic visualization of the published information alongside the integration of social media functionality to enrich local dialog on crime issues.

Official sexual and nonsexual offense histories and confidential self report data on sexual offending were obtained on 207 adult males serving sentences for sexual offenses against children (98 intrafamilial, 72 extrafamilial, and 37 mixed-type offenders). The mean self reported age when offenders first had sexual contact with a child was 32.2 years (median = 31 years; range = 10-63 years). The mean age at first conviction for any offense was 30.5 years (median = 27 years; range = 12-66 years), and the mean age at first conviction for a sexual offense was 37.3 years (median = 37 years; range = 15-76 years). Sixty-nine percent (n = 143) of the combined sample had at least one previous conviction, and 80% of these (n = 114) had first been convicted for a nonsexual offense. ANCOVA revealed a systematic pattern of onset with first convictions for any offense preceding first sexual contact with a child. Taken together, results indicate that, in general, adult child molesters (a) begin sexual offending in their 30s, (b) have already become involved in nonsexual crime by the time they first have sexual contact with a child, (c) are criminally versatile, and (d) vary considerably in their persistence with respect to both sexual and nonsexual offending.

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Preface; Table of Contents; Contributors; Table of cases; Table of legislation; Chapter 1. Banks-Fraud and Crime: A Survey of Criminal Offences Under English Law; Introduction; Theft; Deception; Commercial Offences; Forgery; Fraudulent Trading; Conspiracy; Conclusions; Chapter 2. Serious Fraud-A Banker's Perspective; Nature and Extent of Fraud; The offence of fraud; The development of fraud investigation; The cost of fraud; The effect of the new system; Bank fraud; Fighting Fraud; Investigation and trial powers; Compensation and confiscation.

Pt. 1, Modern tendencies in crime; pt. 2, Judicial procedure and modern crime; pt. 3, Prevention of modern crime; pt. 4, Punishment of modern crime as a means of crime prevention.