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Trends in property and illicit drug crime around the Medically Supervised Injecting Centre in Kings Cross: 2012 update [PDF]

, 2013
Aim: The Medically Supervised Injecting Centre (MSIC) opened in Kings Cross in May 2001. This paper examines whether there have been: (i) increases in the volume of robbery, theft and illicit drug offences in Kings Cross Local Area Command (LAC) up until
Nicole Mahoney, Neil Donnelly
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Histories in bone: Navigating the ethical landscape of human skeletal collections in South Africa

Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Provenance is at the center of addressing the complicated ethical stewardship of legacy human skeletal collections. Many South African (SA) health science institutions have skeletal collections. While the history of the collections and the demographics of the skeletons have been reported, the provenance of the individuals within the ...
Quenth Chinenere, Beverley Kramer, Brendon K. Billings   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Measurement of repeat effects in Chicago’s criminal social network

Applied Computing and Informatics, 2016
The “near-repeat” effect is a well-known criminological phenomenon in which the occurrence of a crime incident gives rise to a temporary elevation of crime risk within close physical proximity to an initial incident. Adopting a social network perspective,
Paul Kump, David Haro Alonso, Yongyi Yang, Joseph Candella, Jonathan Lewin, Miles N. Wernick   +5 more
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Learning beyond the lab: A gamified approach to anatomy education in a museum‐based experience

Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Anatomy education, traditionally rooted in descriptive instruction and cadaveric dissection, is undergoing a significant transformation through the integration of educational technologies and contemporary pedagogical strategies. Among these, active learning methodologies, such as gamified‐based learning, have emerged as approaches designed to ...
Wendell Nunes da Silva, Diego Pulzatto Cury, Silvia Lacchini, Ana Paula Cremasco Takano   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Spill Over of Crime from Urban Centers: An Account of the Changing Spatial Distribution of Violent Crime in Guyana

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2019
As the rate of crime decelerates in the developed world, the opposite phenomenon is being observed in the developing world, including Latin America and the Caribbean.
Anthony R. Cummings, Nakul Markandey, Hannah Das, Celina Arredondo, Aaran Wehenkel, Brittany L. Tiemann, Giyol Lee   +6 more
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Affective dimensions in the information behavior of forcibly displaced people: A literature review. An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract This review analyzed 241 scholarly articles published between 2010 and 2025 in information science venues to examine how affect shapes refugees' information behavior during forced migration and to identify additional contextual factors. It identifies seven affective dimensions: anxiety, shame and stigma, grief and loss, frustration, (mis)trust,
Maja Krtalić, Lilach Alon
wiley   +1 more source

NSW recorded crime statistics 2012 [PDF]

, 2013
  This report finds that in New South Wales, the surge in incidents involving the discharge of a firearm into premises which began in February 2010 has been reversed.
Derek Goh, Steve Moffatt
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Critical questions for documenting collections as data: Provocations from developing datasheets for web archives datasets

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Scholarship on documentation of datasets is increasingly concerned with capturing the context, socio‐technical processes, and decisions shaping data. “Datasheets for datasets” is a recent approach developed by researchers in machine learning that foregrounds transparency and uncovering bias through data documentation.
Emily Maemura, Helena Byrne
wiley   +1 more source

Conceptualizing algorithmic inequality and future agenda. An annual review of information science and technology (ARIST) paper

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract The issue of inequality caused by algorithms, termed ‘algorithmic inequality’, has recently attracted scholarly attention in many disciplines due to its profound implications for society. While the body of literature on algorithmic inequality has grown, there remains a lack of comprehensive understanding of its nature, drivers, and impact ...
Shiwei Jia, Jia Tina Du, Hui Yan
wiley   +1 more source

Implications of the integration process of the administrative records of criminality between the SPOA (Oral Accusatory Criminal System) of the Attorney General’s Office (FGN) and the SIEDCO (Statistical, Delinquency, Offenses and Operations Information System) of the National Police of Colombia (PONAL), and the implementation of the “¡ADenunciar!” app on crime figures.

Revista Criminalidad, 2018
In 2017, the Information System [SIEDCO] of the National Police [PONAL], one of the main sources of criminality information in the country, experienced two important changes in the consolidation of its crime figures.
Jair David Rodríguez Ortega, Lorena del Pilar Caro Zambrano, Daniel Mejía Londoño, Mauricio Romero Hernández, Franney Campos Méndez   +4 more
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