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Crime statistics Victoria – year ending 31 March 2015

, 2015
NOTE: See Related Content below for associated data tables for download. Recorded crime statistics show that there were 458,027 offences recorded by Victoria Police in the year to March 2015, up 1.3% compared to the same period last year.
Crime Statistics Agency
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Carrion ecology: concepts, interdisciplinary synthesis, and perspectives

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Carrion is a ubiquitous resource in both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, yet it has long been overlooked in ecological research. Over the past two decades, studies on carrion and the many organisms that exploit it have flourished, revealing not only wide‐ranging ecological functions but also significance far beyond ecology.
Marcos Moleón, José A. Sánchez‐Zapata, Travis L. DeVault, Wayne M. Getz, Zebensui Morales‐Reyes, Daniel Redondo‐Gómez, Lara Naves‐Alegre, Solange A. Batista‐Nunes, Esther Sebastián‐González, Juan M. Pérez‐García, Kelly A. Waters, Thijs van Overveld, Craig Smith, Nuria Selva, Thomas A. Schlacher, Graeme Ruxton, Jesús Rodríguez, Martina‐M. Quaggiotto, Paula L. Perrig, Norman Owen‐Smith, Thomas M. Newsome, Isabel Navas, Yoshihiro Nakashima, Ana Mateos, Carlos Martínez‐Carrasco, Daniel Martín‐Vega, Berta Martín‐López, Antoni Margalida, Sergio A. Lambertucci, Adam Kane, Kevin Healy, Akane Hashizume, Antonio J. García‐Fernández, José A. Donázar, M. Eric Benbow, James C. Beasley, Philip S. Barton, Kathleen A. Alexander, Eneko Arrondo   +38 more
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Health disparities in chronic liver disease

Hepatology, EarlyView., 2022
Abstract The syndemic of hazardous alcohol consumption, opioid use, and obesity has led to important changes in liver disease epidemiology that have exacerbated health disparities. Health disparities occur when plausibly avoidable health differences are experienced by socially disadvantaged populations.
Ani Kardashian, Marina Serper, Norah Terrault, Lauren D. Nephew   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Financial Constraints and Corporate Sustainability Performance: Do Climate Exposure and People's Climate Attention Matter?

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the relationship between financial constraints and a firm's sustainability performance. Our empirical analysis utilises a panel of 40,445 observations from 9466 listed non‐financial firms across 44 countries, spanning the period from 2002 to 2019.
Boying Xu, Ruth Owusu‐Mensah, Daniel Gyimah   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

SIGNS OF THE OBJECTIVE IN THE DYNAMICS OF MODERN CRIME IN RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Russian Journal of Economics and Law, 2009
The article views the interconnection between economic development and crime change. The dynamics of registered crime on the territory of the Russian Federation is shown, the rules of its rises and falls are defined.

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Beyond Compliance: The Role of Climate Policy Stringency and Financial Institutions in Cleantech Startup Entry

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how environmental regulations can drive technological change, drawing on the innovation systems perspective and the strong Porter hypothesis (SPH). The SPH suggests that well‐designed stringent regulations can foster innovation and enhance firm competitiveness, performance, and survival, yet prior research remains largely ...
Muhammad Zubair Khan, Affan Hameed, Naimat U. Khan, Zafir Ullah Khan   +3 more
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Using Machine Learning to Predict Corporate Environmental Violation: A Stakeholder Pressure Perspective

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Predicting corporate environmental violations remains a key challenge in practice and in environmental governance research. However, existing studies have largely focused on ex post associations between stakeholder pressures and realized environmental violations, offering limited insight into whether stakeholder pressures can be used ex ante ...
Xiaolan Chen, Ning Ding, Haodong Jin, Rui Xue, Yuhao Yang   +4 more
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ESG Controversies and Corporate Performance: A Critical Appraisal of Rating Methodologies and Empirical Evidence

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT ESG controversies have become relevant signals in capital markets. However, controversy measurement is not strictly regulated, and evidence on whether and under which conditions such events affect firm‐level performance remains fragmented and lacks quality appraisal.
Paolo Candio, Massimiliano Kaucic
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Corporate Political Ideology and Environmental Strategy: Evidence From US Toxic Releases

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines whether corporate political ideology shapes firms' environmental strategy and realized environmental performance. Using US political donation data matched to facility‐level toxic releases from the Toxics Release Inventory from 2000 to 2014, we measure corporate ideology by the share of firm and PAC contributions directed to
Mingyuan Chen, Dakshina G. De Silva, Anita R. Schiller, Aurelie Slechten   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Economic development and crime in Brazil: a multivariate and spatial analysis

Revista Brasileira de Estudos Regionais e Urbanos, 2019
This paper aimed to analyze the spatial distribution of crime in the 5,565 Brazilian municipalities and to investigate its relationship with local economic development. More specifically, we analyze the presence of spatial dependence and heterogeneity as
Pedro Henrique Batista de Barros, Isadora Salvalaggio Baggio, Alysson Luiz Stege, Cleise Maria de Almeida Tupich Hilgemberg   +3 more
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