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Don't Worry About Her; Intersectionality, and the Role of Systems and Structures in the Embodied Experiences of Young Women's Use of Violence

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Systems and structures designed to protect and support young people, specifically (in this paper) young women, are ironically the same systems that maintain gender disparity. Consequently, this has influenced the embodied identities of young women who experience and use violence. Such systemic and structural intersectionality has impacted upon
Louise Rak   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Spatial context of crime activities in criminal investigation [PDF]

open access: yesZbornik Radova: Pravni Fakultet u Novom Sadu, 2019
Because of the fact that crime is committed in certain locations in geographic space, it cannot be analyzed in isolation from the environment in which it occurs and where its consequences arouse.
Milić Nenad S.
doaj  

User-Centered Design for Interactive Maps: A Case Study in Crime Analysis

open access: yesISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2015
In this paper, we address the topic of user-centered design (UCD) for cartography, GIScience, and visual analytics. Interactive maps are ubiquitous in modern society, yet they often fail to “work” as they could or should.
Robert E. Roth   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Crime mapping and Geographical Information Systems in crime analysis

open access: yesJournal of Human Sciences, 2016
As essential apparatus in crime analysis, crime mapping and Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are being progressively more accepted by police agencies. Development in technology and the accessibility of geographic data sources make it feasible for police departments to use GIS and crime mapping.
Dağlar, Murat, Argun, Uğur
openaire   +3 more sources

Crime mapping and spatial analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Crime maps are becoming significant tools in crime and justice. Advances in the areas of information technology and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have opened new opportunities for the use of digital mapping in crime control and prevention ...
Ahmadi, Mostafa.   +2 more
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Mapping the Risk Terrain for Crime Using Machine Learning

open access: yesJournal of quantitative criminology, 2020
We illustrate how a machine learning algorithm, Random Forests, can provide accurate long-term predictions of crime at micro places relative to other popular techniques. We also show how recent advances in model summaries can help to open the ‘black box’
A. Wheeler, W. Steenbeek
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Understanding Youth Assaults of Police Officers in Australia: A Power Threat Meaning Framework Analysis

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores youth violence towards police officers in Australia through the Power Threat Meaning Framework (PTMF) to better understand the underlying factors contributing to such violence; focusing on power dynamics, childhood adversity, and trauma.
Dimitra Lattas   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding the spatial pattern of urban crime: a developing country's perspective [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Much of the published spatial analysis research of crime to date has been focused on Euro-American cities. This paper attempts to provide an insight on how we can better understand the spatial pattern of crime in a typical developing country’s setting ...
Cheshire, J, Johnson, S, Umar, F
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‘People Need to Understand That They Are Stealing From Their Neighbours’: A Critical Media Analysis of the Representations and Resistance Throughout the Robodebt Scheme

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Robodebt scheme issued thousand‐dollar debts to an estimated half a million people who had received social security. The debts were largely inaccurate and illegal, with the aim of improving the federal government's budget. The 2023 Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme found that the stigmatising political and public language about ...
Ella Kruger, Phillipa Evans
wiley   +1 more source

La délinquance : observatoire méconnu des recompositions des relations villes-campagnes

open access: yesEchoGéo, 2014
Delinquency’s spatial characteristics, although present in the politico-media speech, remain marginally studied by the French geographers, on the opposite of the Anglo-Saxon geography. However, the transformations at work in the French territories, under
Jorick Perrin
doaj   +1 more source

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