Where can offenders be found when they are not committing crimes? A cross-sectional survey of British police officers on non-crime locations.

To date, the bulk of research on place and crime has concentrated on crime scene locations and home addresses of both victims and perpetrators. Beyond these locations, less is known about where offenders can be found during regular, non-criminal activity. These 'non-crime locations' provide information about offenders' lifestyles, their relationships with co-offenders, their preferred spots, and the places beyond the spatiotemporal boundaries of the crime where they may plan, manage, or deal with the aftermath of their behaviour.

'Summer of Sport': the development of a 6-week programme in increasing physical activity to improve public health outcomes.

Objectives: A population-based physical activity (PA) programme was implemented to increase PA levels and encourage individuals to join the local council leisure facility.

Study Design: This is a cross-sectional design.

Methods: The 6-week programme Summer of Sport (SOS) involved a total of 487 individuals registered for PA sessions.

Regular self-weighing to promote weight maintenance after intentional weight loss: a quasi-randomized controlled trial.

Background: Many overweight people take action to lose weight but most regain this weight.

Purpose: To examine the effectiveness of a weight maintenance intervention focused on regular self-weighing after receiving a 12-week weight loss programme.

Methods: Quasi-randomized controlled trial of 3768 obese or overweight men and women.

Comparison of range of commercial or primary care led weight reduction programmes with minimal intervention control for weight loss in obesity: lighten Up randomised controlled trial.

Objective: To assess the effectiveness of a range of weight management programmes in terms of weight loss.

Design: Eight arm randomised controlled trial.

Setting: Primary care trust in Birmingham, England.

A randomised controlled trial to compare a range of commercial or primary care led weight reduction programmes with a minimal intervention control for weight loss in obesity: the Lighten Up trial.

Background: Developed countries are facing a huge rise in the prevalence of obesity and its associated chronic medical problems. In the UK Primary Care Trusts are charged with addressing this in the populations they serve, but evidence about the most effective ways of delivering services is not available. The aim of this study is to determine the effectiveness of a range of weight loss programmes for obese patients in primary care and to determine the characteristics of patients who respond to an invitation to a free weight management programme.