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The Strength of Association: Neighborhood Poverty and Social Deviance [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
This issue is the third of three in Series 3a, "The Strength of Community-level Rates of Association," mapping Anchorage neighborhood characteristics by census block area, highlighting the correlation or lack of correlation between those characteristics ...
Justice Center, University of Alaska Anchorage
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Optimized Risk Assessment in Forensic Practice: A Comparison of Machine Learning and Manual Scoring Approaches

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As correctional jurisdictions and risk instrument developers look to optimize scoring for specific population needs, an open question remains ‐ which method is optimal. Popular scoring methods range from manual simple scoring approaches (e.g., Burgess) to more complex machine learning algorithms (e.g., random forests).
Danielle J. Rieger   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Sexual Recidivism Rates of Women Are Still Low: An Updated Meta‐Analysis

open access: yesCriminal Behaviour and Mental Health, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Compared to men, women are less likely to sexual offend. Previous reviews found low rates of sexual recidivism among women. The last published meta‐analysis was based on studies from before 2010. Aims Conduct an updated meta‐analysis of the sexual recidivism rates of women returned to the community.
R. Karl Hanson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Security of the Population in the Czech Republic from the Aaspect of Crime and Penitentiary System [PDF]

open access: yesStatistika: Statistics and Economy Journal, 2013
Th e empirical study concerning wide area of security of the Czech population deals with both its aspects –crime and prison population. First, we have the picture of macro-economic view on the issues through theinternational comparison of government ...
Jiří Kamenický
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Geographic Crime Information Reporting System Crime Mapping and Analysis

open access: yes, 2013
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Duran, Elizalde J.   +3 more
openaire   +1 more source

The Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility Internationally—History, Systems and the Future

open access: yesCriminal Behaviour and Mental Health, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background In most countries, a criminal conviction requires evidence that the individual committed the act and that they had the mental capacity to understand what they were doing and that it was wrong. Youth, as an indicator of brain development, is one factor affecting criminal capacity.
Enys Delmage   +18 more
wiley   +1 more source

How Big Data helps us? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
В данной статье рассматриваются сферы жизни, в которых данная технология нашла свое применение. Показано, что с использованием анализа Big Data увеличивается точность прогнозов и предсказаний, растет качество товаров и услуг, которые предлагаются только ...
Зарифуллина, Д. П.   +1 more
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Framing Modern Slavery: Do Stakeholders Talk Past Each Other?

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Administrative Sciences / Revue Canadienne des Sciences de l'Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Modern slavery literature has thus far mostly adopted a downstream perspective, in the sense that researchers investigated corporate actors' responses after the enactment of transparency legislation. The common finding is that corporate disclosure is poor and ineffective, contributing to a failure to eradicate modern slavery.
Sylvain Durocher   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fetal Pain Perception: Legislative Assertions and Developmental Neuroscience

open access: yesAnnals of the Child Neurology Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Pain perception is a conscious experience, but neither pain nor consciousness is defined in the developing human fetus. Emergent consciousness may be regarded as a phenomenon that ultimately arises from an essential minimum of functional neuronal connectivity. Proposed U.S.
William D. Graf   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sudan at War With Itself: Civilian Devastation in the Civil War

open access: yesConflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A civil war is raging in Sudan between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) along with militia groups. Beginning on April 15, 2023, and continuing at least to this writing (October 15, 2025), civilian noncombatants have been subjected to bombings, beatings, torture, shootings, rape, and murder on a large scale. Since
Daniel Rothbart   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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