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Opportunities and Alliances: The Relational Dynamics of Criminal Collusion in Latin America

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Mexico and judicial wiretap analysis in Argentina, this paper shows that collusion between state actors and violent non‐state actors operates through fluid and competitive relational networks rather than stable hierarchies or fixed institutional arrangements.
Eldad J. Levy, Javier Auyero
wiley   +1 more source

Brazilian spotlight on INTERPOL's I‐Familia: Policy, practice, and international missing persons identification

open access: yesJournal of Forensic Sciences, EarlyView.
Abstract The disappearance of individuals is a global humanitarian and public security issue that requires coordinated national and international responses. INTERPOL's I‐Familia database is a global DNA database that uses kinship matching to support identification of missing persons (MP) and unidentified human remains (UHR) when a direct DNA profile ...
Aline Minervino   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Do targeted, place‐based educational campaigns influence citizen engagement and violent crime? A quasi‐experiment of the alert conscience technique of situational crime prevention

open access: yesCriminology &Public Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary Between 2021 and 2024, the Mecklenburg County (NC) Department of Public Health's Office of Violence Prevention launched two targeted media campaigns in response to high rates of community violence. The first used geofencing: virtual geographic boundaries that deliver targeted advertisements to mobile devices.
Eric L. Piza   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Creating a Youth Sex Trafficking Prevention Curriculum Using CBPAR: Challenges, Successes, and Lessons Learned. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Child Sex Abus
Dalla RL   +11 more
europepmc   +1 more source

A picture worth a thousand words: The effect of murals on crime

open access: yesCriminology &Public Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary Drawing on the tenets of situational crime prevention, several place‐based interventions are both effective in reducing crime and relatively inexpensive. The installation of large exterior murals also fits within the situational crime prevention framework.
Maya Moritz
wiley   +1 more source

Warm Spring Weather Alters Calling Phenology of Four Sympatric Early‐Breeding Anurans

open access: yesIntegrative Zoology, EarlyView.
An unusually warm March in 2024 (“false spring”) followed by freezing temperatures allowed us to assess the impact of a weather event on an amphibian community. The calling activity of all four species was associated with increasing temperature, and the first date of calling was advanced by 11–18 days.
Jeffrey P. Ethier   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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