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Neighborhood social environments and mental health among youth and adults in public housing

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Neighborhoods influence health in part through social processes. However, little is known about how multiple neighborhood social processes co‐occur, or about within (vs. between) neighborhood variation in social processes and health. This study asked how residents of a large public housing development describe their neighborhood and used ...
Jane Leer, Lindsay Lanteri, Rebekah Levine Coley, Samantha Teixeira   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Homicídios e desorganização social: o caso de Belo Horizonte

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This article investigates the relationship between socioeconomic characteristics of the population of Belo Horizonte, taken from the demographic indicators of the 2010 census, and homicide crimes recorded in the same year, in addition to counting on the ...
Rafael Augusto Reis da Mata, Alexandre M. A. Diniz, Antônio Hot Pereira de Faria   +2 more
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How Network Analysis Uncovers International Networks of Smuggling History: Criminals in Nagasaki, Japan circa 1667

Journal of Cultural Analytics, 2023
This paper takes a network analytic approach to investigating crime in seventeenth-century Japan. In 1667, the Nagasaki magistrate’s office conducted the largest documented smuggling crackdown in Tokugawa Japan (1603–1867), busting a ring of 87 arms ...
Hyeok Hweon Kang
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Spatial Concentration of Opioid Overdose Deaths in Indianapolis: An Application of the Law of Crime Concentration at Place to a Public Health Epidemic [PDF]

, 2019
The law of crime concentration at place has become a criminological axiom and the foundation for one of the strongest evidence-based policing strategies to date.
Carter, Jeremy G., Mohler, George, Ray, Bradley   +2 more
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A community‐driven approach to address substance use and create a Great Plains American Indian addiction and recovery research agenda

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Substance use, specifically opioid and methamphetamine use, is of increasing concern among American Indian (AI) populations in the Great Plains. This community‐driven participatory study investigated the impacts of substance use and community‐defined needs in treating addiction.
Brynn Luger, Anna Kihlström, Brinda Sivaramakrishnan, Allison Kelliher, Frankie Kropp, Carmen Rosa, T. John Winhusen, Donald Warne, the CTN0129 participating Tribal communities   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rape in the metropolis: the geography of crime in Delhi

Glocalism: Journal of Culture, Politics and Innovation, 2014
This paper is a study of rape in the national capital of India, and the focus is on the amendments of rape law aftermath 12 December 2012 crime. It questions at the safety and security issues of women in the metropolis of India, and it also discusses ...
Amitabh Vikram Dwivedi
doaj   +5 more sources

BOOK REVIEW: “CRIME GEOGRAPHY”, BY SZABOLCS MáTYáS

KULTURA POLISA
Dragana Čvorović
openaire   +2 more sources

Mental health service use among Filipino American and Korean American young adults during the COVID‐19 pandemic

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite the heightened mental health challenges amid rising Anti‐Asian sentiment, Asian Americans have significantly underutilized mental health services, a trend that persisted even before the COVID‐19 pandemic. Although considerable efforts have been made to understand how various factors are related to mental health service use in this ...
Michael Park, Eunseok Jeong, Nari Yoo, Yoonsun Choi, Leopoldo J. Cabassa, Miwa Yasui, David Takeuchi   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Geography of Crime Countries of the World [PDF]

, 2015
Обґрунтовано актуальність дослідження злочинності у світі. Узагальнено напрацювання міжнародних інституцій із вивчення злочинності та внесок українських учених у дослідження злочинності на глобальному рівні.
Kotyk, L. I., Smoliak, Y. Ia., Котик, Л. І., Смоляк, Ю. Я.   +3 more
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Homelessness Service Usage Patterns of 30,000 Homeless and At‐Risk Households: The Melbourne Access Point Study

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Over the last three decades, overseas researchers have utilised administrative data to identify distinct patterns in shelter use. In Australia, the use of administrative data to understand service utilisation patterns among people ‘at risk’ of homelessness and experiencing homelessness is limited.
Godwin Kavaarpuo, Kathryn Daley, Guy Johnson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source