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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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(Looking) Back to the Future: using space-time patterns to better predict the location of street crime [PDF]
, 2009 Crime analysts attempt to identify regularities in police recorded crime data with a central view of disrupting the patterns found. One common method for doing so is hotspot mapping, focusing attention on spatial clustering as a route to crime reduction (
Tompson, L, Townsley, M
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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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Hot spots policing of small geographic areas effects on crime
Campbell Systematic Reviews, 2019 Background In recent years, crime scholars and practitioners have pointed to the potential benefits of focusing crime prevention efforts on crime places.
Anthony A. Braga +3 more
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, 2018 Crime-preventing neurointerventions (CPNs) are increasingly being used or advocated for crime prevention. There is increasing use of testosterone-lowering agents to prevent recidivism in sexual offenders, and strong political and scientific interest in ...
Birks, David, Douglas, Thomas
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Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examined how male rape myths, racial/ethnicity biases, and sexuality stereotypes influence verdicts in male‐on‐male rape trials—an area that is currently under‐researched. A sample of 463 participants read a mock rape trial, where both the defendant and complainant were male, with defendant ethnicity (White, Black, Asian) and ...
Lee J. Curley +3 more
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Journal of Psychosexual HealthThis article presents results of the prevalence and correlates of paraphilic interests. A representative survey conducted in the largest canton of Switzerland among 18- to 50-year-olds ( n = 1,236) shows that masochism and sexual sadism are the most ...
Dirk Baier
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Forced Flexibility and Exploitation: Experiences of Migrant Workers in the Cleaning Industry
Nordic 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
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Efficacy of property marking: police identification of stolen property [PDF]
, 2014 Property marking, as a situational crime prevention technique, has found to be largely ineffectual in the reduction of property theft, although past studies have not considered the role property marking as an aid to the return of stolen or lost property.
Brooks, David J, Separovic, Craig J
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Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite growing public knowledge of false confession cases, research with students and community members continues to find that people assume confessions indicate guilt. The present research explored the implications of belief perseverance: the tendency to maintain a belief even when confronted with compelling contradictory evidence.
Taya D. Henry +2 more
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