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Acceptability and feasibility of using digital technology to train community practitioners to deliver a family-based intervention for adolescents with drug use disorders during the COVID-19 pandemic

open access: yesAddictive Behaviors Reports, 2021
Introduction: By adhering to government preventative messages to stay-at-home and social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic, training practitioners in person in implementing a family-based intervention (i.e., Treatnet Family) is not possible.
Anja Busse   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Effectiveness of the Indigenous Islamic Culture on the Crime Prevention in the City of Qom [PDF]

open access: yesIslām va ̒ulūm-i ijtimā̒ī, 2020
The indigenous Islamic culture, unlike the materialistic cultures, while meeting the needs of the individuals in the society, is rooted in monotheism, which is the basis of Islam, and its proper institutionalization can harmoniously develop the human ...
Sayyad Darvishi   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Preventing crime and violence [PDF]

open access: yesBMJ, 1995
Violent crime, which is committed mainly by adolescents and young adults, is a serious and increasing problem on both sides of the Atlantic. In the United States the number of juveniles (under 18) who were arrested for murder and manslaughter rose by 60% between 1981 and 1990 compared with a 5% rise in those aged 18 years and over.1 The proportion of ...
J P, Shepherd, D P, Farrington
openaire   +2 more sources

Consensus on community guidelines: an experimental study on the legitimacy of content removal in social media

open access: yesHumanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023
The popularization of social media has led to a considerable increase in the importance of discursive expressions of violence, especially when directed at vulnerable communities.
Jesús C. Aguerri   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Fidelity Assessment of the Treatnet family (TF): A family-based intervention for adolescents with substance use disorders and their families

open access: yesAddictive Behaviors Reports, 2021
Introduction: In transporting family-based interventions to community settings, establishing and maintaining fidelity to intervention is important. This exploratory study was implemented in the framework of a United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime ...
Anja Busse   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Review of major policy developments and evidence base: crime domain [PDF]

open access: yes
The evidence base review for the Crime Domain examined some of the leading theories used to explain the manifestation of crime (i.e. what makes some neighbourhoods and places more vulnerable to crime than others), presented information on levels of ...
Johnson, Shane D.   +3 more
core   +4 more sources

Evident and Effective? The Challenges, Potentials and Limitations of Evaluation Research on Preventing Violent Extremism

open access: yesInternational Journal of Conflict and Violence, 2020
Radicalization and its prevention have increasingly become the subject of public debate in academia and in the political arena. The impact of prevention efforts is subject to public scrutiny – not only because these efforts, if successful, contribute to
Inga Nehlsen   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Alternatives to imprisonment in Bulgaria – Development, State and Challenges / Mesures alternatives à l’incarcération en Bulgarie : développement, état de l’art et défis [PDF]

open access: yesRivista di Criminologia, Vittimologia e Sicurezza, 2016
L’obiettivo del presente articolo è quello di presentare sinteticamente alcuni punti chiave legati all’implementazione delle misure alternative in Bulgaria.
Momchilov Andrey
doaj   +1 more source

Crime Prevention through Environmental Design [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This chapter is concerned with the extent to which the individual design features of the built environment (such as a house, school, shopping mall or hospital), as well as the natural environment surrounding those buildings, impact upon crime risk ...
Armitage, Rachel
core   +3 more sources

Strong families: a new family skills training programme for challenged and humanitarian settings: a single-arm intervention tested in Afghanistan

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2020
Background Children living in challenged humanitarian settings (including those in rural/underserved areas, the displaced, refugees, in conflict/post conflict situations) are at greater risk of mental health difficulties or behavioural problems, with ...
Karin Haar   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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