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Do offenders avoid offending near home? A systematic review of the buffer zone hypothesis
Crime Science, 2020 Background There is general agreement that the frequency of crime decreases with the distance from the offender’s home. By way of exception to this distance decay pattern, the buffer zone hypothesis states that offenders avoid offending very close to ...
Wim Bernasco, Remco van Dijke
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The effect of Western TV on crime: Evidence form East Germany
, 2017 This paper explores the causal influence of Western television programming on crime rates. We exploit a natural experiment involving access to West German TV within the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in which only geography and topography determined ...
Friehe, Tim +2 more
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2014 Wisconsin Health Trends: Making Wisconsin the Healthiest State [PDF]
, 2014 The Wisconsin State Health Plan for 2020 established a goal for everyone to live longer and better. Progress toward this goal can be measured by monitoring health outcomes, and the factors that contribute to those outcomes, for the state's population ...
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Feminist Geopolitics: Material States [PDF]
, 2017 No abstract ...
Clark, Nigel +4 more
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Toward an SDG‐Based Typology for US Nonprofits
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represent an emerging institutional logic that nonprofits must navigate alongside existing sector‐specific frameworks. Drawing on institutional logics and organizational hybridity theories, we examine how nonprofits incorporate SDGs into their missions and what this reveals about managing institutional ...
Dominik S. Meier, Elizabeth Searing
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The aim of this study is to examine the impact of corruption control, as a public institutional mechanism, on hazardous waste emissions of private sector entities. We also examine the extent to which Agenda 2030 moderates the relationship. We analyse data from the top 500 global companies.
Babajide Oyewo +3 more
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A psycho-geography of crime areas: variations in the affective domain
Dela, 2004 Ten dimensions from the affective domain are proposed as characterizing the major attitu-des and feelings found in areas of high crime in cities. These dimensions are related to a previously proposed model of community differentiation by the author, that
Wayne Kenneth David Davies
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Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Bankruptcy and financial distress commonly precipitate suicidal crises, putting bankruptcy attorneys in potentially difficult situations with clients. This qualitative study explored attorneys' experiences with clients' risk for suicide and attorneys' recommendations for suicide prevention.
John R. Blosnich +4 more
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Cambio, 2016 In recent years, the use of closed circuit television (cctv) for surveillance, historically restricted to the private sector, has shown a shift towards the public sector, being implemented in the framework of public policies on crime prevention and ...
Vanesa Lio
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'“A strange enough region wherein to wander and muse": Mapping Clerkenwell in Victorian Popular Fictions' [PDF]
, 2019 Drawing on the work of Bertrand Westphal, this essay attempts to perform a geocritical reading of the London district of Clerkenwell. After discussing the spatial turn in the Humanities and introducing a range of spatial critical approaches, the essay ...
Vuohelainen, M.
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