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Red state, blue state, green state: analysing the geography of federal environmental crime prosecutions within and across the U.S. states

Palgrave Communications, 2017
While green criminologists note that environmental crimes are taken less seriously than street crimes by law enforcement and the criminal justice system, the diffuse structure of the environmental regulatory regime in the United States and lack of ...
Joshua Ozymy, Melissa L. Jarrell
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Individual and spatial dimensions of women’s fear of crime: a Scandinavian study case

Crime and Fear in Public Places, 2020
Using insights from criminology and urban geography, this article seeks to investigate individual and spatial dimensions of women’s fear of crime, in particular amongst women who declare to feel the most unsafe. This study is based on three waves of data
Anna Yates, V. Ceccato
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A Sea of Islands, a Sea of Crime: Island Crime Fiction in the Aegean Sea

Island Studies Journal, 2019
Crime fiction frequently takes the real and imaginary geography of islands as its setting and subject. Through a reading of selected novels by Anne Zouroudi, Jeffrey Siger, and Paul Johnston, this article looks at ways in which ideas about ‘islandness ...
Ralph Crane
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Historical geography III: hope persists [PDF]

, 2019
The final report in this series focuses on the emerging intersections between historical geography, archaeology and the law. Whilst staying attuned to the darkest of geographies emerging from the sub-field, this report turns its attention to the ...
McGeachan, Cheryl
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Spatiotemporal Analysis of Nighttime Crimes in Vienna, Austria

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
Studying the spatiotemporal dynamics of crime is crucial for accurate crime geography research. While studies have examined crime patterns related to weekdays, seasons, and specific events, there is a noticeable gap in research on nighttime crimes.
Jiyoung Lee, Michael Leitner, Gernot Paulus   +2 more
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Aspects of The Crime Geography of Calabar Urban

, 2006
The main focus of this research is to established, through an objective empirical process, the spatial pattern and trend with regards to the crime geography of Calabar Urban.
A. I. Afangideh, F. Okpiliya, J. K. Ukwayi   +2 more
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Urban geography and scaling of contemporary Indian cities [PDF]

Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 2018
This paper attempts to create a first comprehensive analysis of the integrated characteristics of contemporary Indian cities, using scaling and geographical analysis over a set of diverse indicators.
A. Sahasranaman, L. Bettencourt
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Nature of Crime and Challenges of Policing in Haor Areas of Bangladesh: A Study in Kishoreganj and Netrokona Districts

International Journal of Qualitative Research
Green criminology is a multidisciplinary field that seeks to explain the relationship between crime and geography. Bangladeshi criminologists and crime preventionists are increasingly conscious of crime-location relationships.
Md. Abdul Kader Miah, Nahida Shaulin
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Strategie performative nel true crime seriale

Cinergie, 2017
The article explores the performative strategies adopted in Making a Murderer and The Jinx in order to represent the artificiality of legal truths in the contemporary American society.
Giulia Scomazzon
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The social disorganization of intimate partner violence

Journal of Community Safety and Well-Being, 2019
Recently, scholars have begun to recognize new theoretical connections between geography and intimate partner violence (IPV). One such theory is social disorganization theory (SDT).
Anthony Piscitelli, Sean Doherty
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