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Analyzing Space-Time Dynamics of Theft Rates Using Exchange Mobility
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2018 A critical issue in the geography of crime is the quantitative analysis of the spatial distribution of crimes which usually changes over time. In this paper, we use the concept of exchange mobility across different time periods to determine the spatial ...
Yicheng Tang +4 more
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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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Urban 'disorders', 'problem places' and criminal justice in Scotland [PDF]
, 2010 [About the book] The existence of the separate criminal jurisdiction in Scotland is ignored by most criminological texts purporting to consider crime and criminal justice in 'Britain' or the 'UK'.
Helms, Gesa, Law, Alex, Mooney, Gerry
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‘Why can’t they meet in bars and clubs like normal people?’: the protective state and bioregulating gay public sex spaces [PDF]
, 2017 State regulation of gay public sex spaces (PSS) has prompted geographers to assess the influence that localised legalities exert in specific micro-spaces of interaction, and to expand this research into cities not considered to be archetypically ‘gay ...
Anderson, Grant
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The evidence base for ranger patrol effectiveness in conservation and how to improve it
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Ranger patrols are a cornerstone of wildlife protection efforts around the world and occur across all ecological governance systems. Evidence that patrols reduce threats to wildlife and enable their recovery has not been systematically examined previously.
Trina Rytwinski +19 more
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Linked open government data: lessons from Data.gov.uk [PDF]
, 2012 The movement to publish government data is an opportunity to populate the linked data Web with data of good provenance. The benefits range from transparency to public service improvement, citizen engagement to the creation of social and economic value ...
Berners-Lee, Tim +6 more
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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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‘It’s better than daytime television’: questioning the socio-spatial impacts of massage parlours on residential communities [PDF]
, 2016 It has been shown that street sex work is problematic for some communities, but there is less evidence of the effects of brothels. Emerging research also suggests that impact discourses outlined by residential communities and in regulatory policies ...
Agustin L +15 more
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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 +2 more
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