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A double-edged sword: Benefits and pitfalls of heterogeneous punishment in evolutionary inspection games [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
As a simple model for criminal behavior, the traditional two-strategy inspection game yields counterintuitive results that fail to describe empirical data.
Perc, Matjaz, Szolnoki, Attila
core   +2 more sources

‘People Need to Understand That They Are Stealing From Their Neighbours’: A Critical Media Analysis of the Representations and Resistance Throughout the Robodebt Scheme

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Robodebt scheme issued thousand‐dollar debts to an estimated half a million people who had received social security. The debts were largely inaccurate and illegal, with the aim of improving the federal government's budget. The 2023 Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme found that the stigmatising political and public language about ...
Ella Kruger, Phillipa Evans
wiley   +1 more source

The Legislation for Providing Animal Access in Australian Residential Aged Care: It's Not a Zoo

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Providing meaningful animal contact to residential aged care facility (RACF) residents is problematic due to a lack of animal policies and National Guidelines. This paper examines how Australian Legislation could influence access to animal contact in RACFs and aims to answer the question, ‘Could current Legislation facilitate the development ...
Wendy Newton   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

FlowSeries: flow analysis on financial networks

open access: yesApplied Network Science
The digitalization and automation of anti-financial crime (AFC) investigations has made significant progress in recent years. However, key challenges remain—in particular, the need for interpretability in the output of AI models and the limited ...
Arthur Capozzi   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Organised crime

open access: yes, 2017
This chapter describes the emerging focus on situational crime prevention related to organised crime, an area in which repression and a law enforcement approach have been dominant. It focuses on both the theoretical background and critical remarks and shows that applying situational crime prevention to organised crime is less easy than to ordinary ...
Kleemans, E.R., Soudijn, M.R.J.
openaire   +2 more sources

Towards effective practice in offender supervision [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This paper has been prepared principally for the Performance Improvement Strategy Group - a group convened by the Community Justice Division of the Scottish Government to advise and assist in the development of criminal justice social work services in ...
McNeill, Fergus   +1 more
core  

‘The System Can't Cope’: The Service System Response to Alcohol and Other Drug‐Facilitated Sexual Violence

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Alcohol and other drug‐facilitated sexual violence can have significant impacts on victim‐survivors, yet little is known about what support service providers offer them. To understand the experiences and perceptions of service providers, interviews with counsellors, health workers, forensic toxicologists and harm reduction workers were ...
Jessica Ison   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ten Years of International Collaboration to Address the Challenge of New Psychoactive Substances

open access: yesEmerging Trends in Drugs, Addictions, and Health
Over the last ten years, the number of new psychoactive substances (NPS) reported to UNODC has increased significantly to over 1,200 individual substances, reported by 141 countries and territories worldwide.
J. Tettey, S. Levissianos
doaj   +1 more source

Untangling the determinants of crime in South Africa [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Includes abstract.Includes bibliographical references.This study investigates the relationships between several key economic, sociodemographic and infrastructural factors and crime in South Africa.
Verrinder, Noel
core  

Understanding recurrent crime as system-immanent collective behavior [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Containing the spreading of crime is a major challenge for society. Yet, since thousands of years, no effective strategy has been found to overcome crime. To the contrary, empirical evidence shows that crime is recurrent, a fact that is not captured well
Donnay, Karsten   +2 more
core   +3 more sources

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