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Community context and individual factors associated with arrests among young men in a South African township. [PDF]
, 2019 BackgroundIn high-income countries, individual- and community-level factors are associated with increased contact with the criminal justice system. However, little is known about how these factors contribute to the risk of arrest in South Africa, which ...
Bantjes, Jason +8 more
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Cohort profile: The Halmstad University Register on Pupils with Intellectual Disability
JCPP Advances, EarlyView.Abstract Background Knowledge about the living conditions among people with intellectual disabilities (ID) is globally scarce. Even in countries with good access to registers, this is often partly due to the absence of a single, comprehensive, nationwide register of individuals with ID or the inability to identify all individuals with ID within ...
Eva Jönsson +3 more
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Anti-Poverty Strategies for the UK: Poverty and Crime Review [PDF]
, 2014 This review of the literature about how and why poverty and crime influence one another, and the benefits to crime reduction of reducing poverty, looks at the implications for practical policies and ...
Kingston, S, Webster, CS
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HO/RT1culture: Cultivating police use of Home Office Road Traffic 1 form to identify active serious offenders [PDF]
, 2007 Self-selection policing is the term given to the identification of serious active offenders by dint of their commission of more minor infractions. The paper explores the feasibility of using the nonproduction of documentation as required after the issue ...
Roach, Jason
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JCPP Advances, EarlyView.This study, using data from Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children across ages 4, 7 and 8, found bidirectional associations between parental negativity and child externalising behaviour across ages 7 to 8 but not ages 4 to 7. Contrary to expectations, social support and neighbourhood cohesion did not moderate any of the cross‐lagged paths ...
Jasmine A. L. Raw +4 more
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Revista de Políticas Públicas, 2014 In 2012 Paraná’s state government has begun the implementation of a new policing model: the “Unidade Paraná Seguro” (UPS). Based on the “community policy” concept, UPS’ main goal is to reduce both the rate of homicides and drug-related crimes. This paper
Andréa Benetti Carvalho de Oliveira +3 more
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European Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context, 2013 Different studies have proposed that batterers can be classified into distinct groups according topsychopathology, violence severity and frequency.
Olga Cunha, Rui Abrunhosa Gonçalves
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Closing the Transition Gap: The Rule of Law Imperative in Stabilization Environments [PDF]
, 2011 Using Afghanistan as a case study, examines strategic and moral aspects of establishing effective rule of law institutions to prevent and punish corruption following interventions; implications, such as for counterinsurgency efforts, and ...
Brock Dahl
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Strategic Change, EarlyView.Abstract This study explores how social enterprises create social and economic value through business models that support ex‐offenders. The work was motivated by a request for help from an entrepreneur wishing to establish a business that supports ex‐offender rehabilitation.
Elizabeth Green +2 more
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The Dark Side of Electoralism: Opinion Polls and Voting in the 2016 Philippine Presidential Election
Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 2016 Despite the limits of elections as a mechanism to secure accountability and ensure substantive representation, the 2016 elections drew the highest turnout across elections held since the political transition in 1986, a clear indication of electoralism ...
Ronald D. Holmes
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