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Promoting Safer Communities through Physical Design, Social Inclusion and Crime Prevention through Environmental Design: A Developmental Study

open access: yes, 2006
The impact of crime on people’s lives takes many forms. Strategies and intervention programs aimed at reducing crime open draw on a mix of approaches that focus on opportunity/situational reduction; the social/developmental; and the structural/social ...
Haigh, Y.
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‘Where are the adults?’: Troubling child‐activism and children's political participation

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Children's political participation is a well‐established theme in childhood studies. In this article we offer an original account of child activism that takes into account the entangled and emergent aspect of children as activists. We begin with a historical and a conceptual review, noting the importance of mid‐20th century developments such ...
Sharon Hunter, Claire Cassidy
wiley   +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

‘A completely different space’: Teachers' perspectives on disadvantage, access to nature and outdoor learning

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examined teachers' perspectives on how children benefit from time in nature, how disadvantage shapes access and the role of schools in facilitating such access. Drawing on interviews conducted in 2022 with 25 UK primary school teachers who participated in Generation Wild, a nature connection programme for schools in economically ...
Nicola Parkin   +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

Crime prevention cooperation in Sweden: a regional case study

open access: yes, 2014
In crime prevention, local cooperation and networks have recently become central organizing principles and concepts, especially in Nordic countries such as Sweden. This article explores cooperation in Swedish crime prevention by examining a local example,
Johansson, Kerstin,, Kerstin Johansson
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Local crime prevention work : cultivating a political profile at a municipal level

open access: yes, 2022
Over the last 30 years, crime policy has become a central research area in criminology, and many important studies have been written. The primary focuses of many of these studies have been the so-called punitive turn.
Wahlgren, Paula,, Andersson, Robert,
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What works in internal alternative provision? A salutogenic analysis

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Schools across England are setting up ‘internal alternative provision’ to meet the social, emotional and mental health needs of increasing numbers of pupils at risk of suspension, exclusion and absence. However, there is little guidance about what good practice looks like.
Emma Simpson
wiley   +1 more source

Relational and feminist pedagogic approaches for developing engagement and inclusion of girls at risk of exclusion in England

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper highlights the inclusive potential of relational and feminist pedagogic strategies in education, focusing on girls at risk of exclusion. Girls in England are less likely than boys to be suspended or permanently excluded from school, but numbers are increasing.
Juliette Wilson‐Thomas   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hot spots policing of small geographic areas effects on crime

open access: yesCampbell 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
doaj   +1 more source

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