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Attempted Crime and the Crime Drop [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Criminal Justice Review, 2015
This study contributes to crime drop research on the security hypothesis. Using data from the Crime Survey for England and Wales, it finds that the decline in attempted vehicle-related theft and domestic burglary was delayed by 2–4 years. Between 1993 and 1997, completed domestic burglary fell 21% but attempts by only 2.1%, while between 1993 and 1995
openaire   +2 more sources

Linking the religious and social environment to sexual minority mental health

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract In the United States, mental health disparities persist between sexual minorities – people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or other nonheterosexual identifications – and heterosexuals. Although research shows that structural stigma in one's environment may contribute to such disparities, little research has examined religious ...
Nathan R. Todd   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Using community‐based participatory research to contextualize Latino exposure to community violence: A mixed qualitative and spatial analysis approach

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract While the relationship between community violence exposure and maladaptive outcomes has been established, the dynamic between violence exposure and resilience factors in youth is not well understood. The current study utilizes a community‐based participatory research (CBPR) framework and employs a novel mixed‐methods approach integrating ...
Kyle C. Deane   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Weirdnodes: centrality based anomaly detection on temporal networks for the anti-financial crime domain

open access: yesApplied Network Science
Analyzing the financial domain presents significant challenges, particularly due to the lack of publicly available data and the limited opportunities for the scientific community to test methods and algorithms on real datasets.
Salvatore Vilella   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Money for Crime and Money from Crime: Financing Crime and Laundering Crime Proceeds [PDF]

open access: yesEuropean Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, 2015
This article summarises briefly what is known internationally about how ‘organised crimes’ are financed and how this differs from the financing of licit businesses. It shows how illicit financing might and does operate, noting that a key issue is the social capital of offenders and their access to illicit finance which ironically, may be easier if ...
openaire   +2 more sources

The “Best of Both Worlds”: Building a community‐academic partnership for research with legal system‐impacted individuals

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Equitable community‐academic research partnerships provide an innovative way to advance health outcomes among criminal legal system‐impacted individuals. The extant literature lacks accounts that detail the process for developing such partnerships, particularly in community‐based (rather than carceral) settings and with community organizations
Talia R. Cohen   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

The forensic educational outreach initiative – Bridging the gap between education and workplace

open access: yesForensic Science International: Synergy
Skills and knowledge gaps frequently exist between forensic educational programs and practical forensic laboratory needs. An educational outreach project involving three post-secondary academic institutions and a large multidisciplinary forensic ...
Ray Wickenheiser   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Crime as a Business, Business as a Crime

open access: yesVarstvoslovje, 2010
Purpose: This paper endorses the claim that in transitional societies the line between business and crime is elusive because weak states foster a legal order that is formalistic, bureaucratic, politically biased and prone to corruption. Design/Methods/Approach: Three elements are discussed in the paper.
Kregar, Josip, Petričušić, Antonija
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Exploring the link between the risk of violent injury in adolescents and historic redlining practices

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Violent injuries tend to cluster together geospatially. The discriminatory housing practice of redlining undertaken by the United States federal government in the 1930s has been repeatedly linked with various contemporary community‐level disparities.
Samuel J. West   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Retraction Note to: Do offenders avoid offending near home? A systematic review of the buffer zone hypothesis

open access: yesCrime Science, 2021
This article has been retracted.
Wim Bernasco, Remco van Dijke
doaj   +1 more source

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