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Mapping Crime Prevention: What We Do and Where We Need to Go

open access: yes, 2016
Crime mapping is an activity that dates back to the early nineteenth century in the context of understanding crime in France. Crime mapping has become an important component in crime prevention because it can help in the identification of crime problems ...
Andresen, MA, Martin A. Andresen
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Anatomy Museum: An educational resource for community anatomy education

open access: yesAnatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Abstract University Community Outreach Programs play an important role in the education of Health Sciences students by providing experiences that extend beyond traditional classroom learning and strengthen the integration between teaching, research, and social engagement.
Ticiana Sidorenko de Oliveira Capote   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Crime Prevention in Police EducationA Survey of Swedish Police Students’ Knowledge, Perceptions, and Values

open access: yesNordic Journal of Studies in Policing
Crime prevention is highly important, but often poorly implemented. This article explores reasons for this by examining the knowledge and perceptions of crime prevention of surveyed Swedish police students (n=303) and whether their education influences ...
Mia Lind
doaj   +1 more source

The Palermo Convention/1. The intergovernmental cooperation of the 1990s

open access: yesRivista di studi e ricerche sulla criminalità organizzata, 2019
The purpose of this paper is to track the progress of the negotiations that led in 2000 to the adoption of the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and its three supplementary protocols. Starting with the UN Congresses on the Prevention of
Alfredo Nunzi
doaj   +1 more source

Doing without Knowing. Common Pitfalls in Crime Prevention

open access: yes, 2007
This paper discusses the need for, and the value of, a more knowledge-based approach to crime prevention. I will argue the case not by presenting scientific evidence about how we can better prevent crime, but rather by pointing out the many problems ...
Wikström, Per-Olof,
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Problem solving for crime prevention [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
This paper by Adrian Cherney uses existing literature to highlight the place of problem solving in crime prevention, and the need for flexibility, responsiveness, and an understanding of context in using problem solving techniques.
Adrian Cherney, Cherney, Adrian
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Counting crimes: the importance of understanding crime concentration for the design and evaluation of crime reduction strategies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Crime statistics are most frequently concerned with the incidence of crime (usually quoted as a rate per population), occasionally statistics are concerned with prevalence (number or proportion of victims within the population) but the concentration of ...
Rogerson, Michelle   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Affective dimensions in the information behavior of forcibly displaced people: A literature review. An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract This review analyzed 241 scholarly articles published between 2010 and 2025 in information science venues to examine how affect shapes refugees' information behavior during forced migration and to identify additional contextual factors. It identifies seven affective dimensions: anxiety, shame and stigma, grief and loss, frustration, (mis)trust,
Maja Krtalić, Lilach Alon
wiley   +1 more source

Forced Flexibility and Exploitation: Experiences of Migrant Workers in the Cleaning Industry

open access: yesNordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2016
Globalization has resulted in structural changes in the labor markets over the last decades. These changes have weakened some of the economic and social dimensions of work.
Natalia Ollus
doaj   +1 more source

Conceptualizing algorithmic inequality and future agenda. An annual review of information science and technology (ARIST) paper

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract The issue of inequality caused by algorithms, termed ‘algorithmic inequality’, has recently attracted scholarly attention in many disciplines due to its profound implications for society. While the body of literature on algorithmic inequality has grown, there remains a lack of comprehensive understanding of its nature, drivers, and impact ...
Shiwei Jia, Jia Tina Du, Hui Yan
wiley   +1 more source

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