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The Role of Local Government in Crime Prevention: An Overview [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
In Australia local government has played a key role in pro-active crime reduction, with it since 1980s partnering with different organisations at both state and local levels to address causes of offending. Crime prevention policies developed by state and
Cherney, Adrian
core   +1 more source

Using community‐based participatory research to contextualize Latino exposure to community violence: A mixed qualitative and spatial analysis approach

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract While the relationship between community violence exposure and maladaptive outcomes has been established, the dynamic between violence exposure and resilience factors in youth is not well understood. The current study utilizes a community‐based participatory research (CBPR) framework and employs a novel mixed‐methods approach integrating ...
Kyle C. Deane   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fighting the Hydra

open access: yesJournal of Dynamic Decision Making
Crises today occur in manifold variants. Cyberattacks, floods, wars, pandemics – the list of cases is ongoing. Academic literature recognizes them as “transboundary crises” (Ansell et al.
Tjorven Harmsen   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Family-centered in Criminal Proceedings of the Juvenile Delinquent in the Criminal law of Iran and Algeria [PDF]

open access: yesآموزه‌های حقوق کیفری کشورهای اسلامی
Considering the important position of the family, on the one hand, the criminal law system is committed to protect the family and strengthen it, and on the other hand, the family has a capacity that can be used in line with the goals of the criminal law ...
Ehsan Babaee, Hosein Sadati
doaj   +1 more source

Understanding the Nature and Effects of Police-Citizen Encounters in Social Context: The Road Less Traveled [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Aggressive policing tactics have been identified as contributors to declining crime rate trends in urban, culturally diverse neighborhoods. They encompass stop and frisk practices which have spawned negative public opinion that contrasts with its ...
D\u27, Anca Alfred, R.
core   +1 more source

Exploring the link between the risk of violent injury in adolescents and historic redlining practices

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Violent injuries tend to cluster together geospatially. The discriminatory housing practice of redlining undertaken by the United States federal government in the 1930s has been repeatedly linked with various contemporary community‐level disparities.
Samuel J. West   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Facilitators and barriers to neighborhood social integration

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Social isolation has reached concerning rates, particularly in the wake of the COVID‐19 pandemic. Social integration is critical to combatting social isolation and loneliness by promoting a sense of community and belonging. Yet, most existing research centers on fostering close personal relationships within family and friend networks.
Joelle Fuchs   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Factors Facilitating the Successful Implementation of a Prevention of Violent Radicalization Intervention as Identified by Front-Line Practitioners

open access: yesJournal for Deradicalization, 2018
Empirical research, already quite infrequent in fundamental research on radicalization, is even more limited when it comes to intervention. In addition, a modest amount of attention has been paid to the experience and everyday practice of practitioners ...
Anne Sophie Ponsot   +2 more
doaj  

Molecular Profiling of Genes Associated With Methylphenidate Pathway Therapy and Discovery of New Variants in Amazonian Amerindian Populations

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), methylphenidate is one of the most widely used drugs, in which patient response significantly impacts prognosis. This study aimed to characterize the molecular profile of 10 genes associated with methylphenidate therapy.
Aline Pasquini Santos   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

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