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How CCTV shapes perceptions of safety in London’s public transport: a quantitative analysis

Urban, Planning and Transport Research
The perception of safety while using public transportation varies among individuals, influenced by personal experiences and individual characteristics.
Oxana Pisier-Caillet, Alina Ristea
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Has Inequity Faced by Young Australians With Disability Changed Since the Turn of the Century?

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite the introduction of various policies aimed at promoting equality for people with disability since Australia ratified the Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (CRPD) in 2008, there has been little evaluation regarding the extent of change in inequity since then.
Asha Parkinson, Joanne Arciuli, Eric Emerson, Sally Robinson, Sally Chance, Gerry Redmond   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Australian Activists as Storytellers in Digital Spaces: Acquiring Skills, Producing Content and Getting the Message Out

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As modes of activism rapidly evolve, activists—both seasoned and emerging—must increasingly navigate a hybrid terrain of both digital and non‐digital engagement. This paper draws on the personal narratives of 16 nascent activists based in Australia to explore how they develop competencies related to digital storytelling, which is critical to ...
Garth Stahl, Miri Yemini, Claire Maxwell, Yating Hu, Benjamin Adams, Sarah Bergen   +5 more
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‘Shelter is a Dignity’: Rental Racism, Stress and Housing (In)justice

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australia's private rental sector is in crisis, and culturally and racially minoritised renters face compounded harms through both covert and everyday direct forms of rental racism. Drawing on five community‐based focus groups in Melbourne (n = 37), the paper explores how racism manifests across the rental pathway and how it structures the ...
Erika Martino, Ilan Wiesel, Ang Li, Rebecca Bentley   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Weirdnodes: centrality based anomaly detection on temporal networks for the anti-financial crime domain

Applied Network Science
Analyzing the financial domain presents significant challenges, particularly due to the lack of publicly available data and the limited opportunities for the scientific community to test methods and algorithms on real datasets.
Salvatore Vilella, Arthur Capozzi, Marco Fornasiero, Dario Moncalvo, Valeria Ricci, Silvia Ronchiadin, Giancarlo Ruffo   +6 more
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Cohesion Without Consensus: Attitudinal Profiles of Social Cohesion in Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Headline indicators of social cohesion in Australia have remained stable in recent years despite rising political polarisation and declining institutional trust worldwide. Yet recent protests and incidents of ethnically and politically motivated violence suggest that cohesion may be under strain. If cohesion is understood not as the pursuit of
John van Kooy
wiley   +1 more source

Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design [PDF]

, 2013
This chapter examines an approach to crime reduction which differs from many others in that it focuses, not on the offender or their reasoning for committing an offence, but upon the environment in which an offence takes place. This approach also differs
Rachel Armitage, Ryberg, Jesper, Bruinsma, G.J.N., Bennett, C.D., Weisburd, D., Armitage, Rachel, Meershoek, Augustinus J.J., Petersen, Thomas Søbirk, Murphy, Kristina, Weisburd, David,, Townsley, Michael, Fernandes, April, Crutchfield, Robert D., Ramirez, Suzanna, Stewart, Anna, Mazerolle, Paul, Manning, Matthew, Bruinsma, Gerben,, Millie, Andrew, Elffers, Henk, Birks, Daniel   +20 more
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Identifying the Service Requirements for Primary Sexual Assault Medical Care and Forensic Evidence Collection in a Remote First Nations Community

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT First Nations female sexual assault survivors in remote Northern Territory (NT) face significant barriers accessing place‐based medical care and forensic evidence collection, subsequently requiring evacuation to specialist services. Using decolonising Participatory Action Research methods, this study identified the workforce, training, and ...
Theresa Clasquin, Rachel Dikul Baker, Rosemary Gundjarranbuy, Annie Whybourne, Sue Kildea, Sue Kruske, Elaine Ḻäwurrpa Maypilama, Sarah Ireland   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Working with Students to Decolonise the Study of Crime

Education Sciences
Recent years have seen a fluctuation in the awarding gap between white and non-white students across higher education in the UK, with the most recent numbers indicating a widening of the gap.
Sanaz Zolghadriha, Amy Thornton, Jawaher Magnaye   +2 more
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Incapacitation and Imprisonment: Prisoners’ Involvement in Community-based Crime. [PDF]

, 2010
The impact of incapacitation on prisoners’ offending behavior is a neglected area of research. The aim of this study was to examine the extent and nature of prisoners’ involvement in community-based crime in the U.K.
Wood, Jane L., Williams, G., James, Mark, Williams, Graham Ross, James, M., Wood, J.   +5 more
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