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Economic development and crime in Brazil: a multivariate and spatial analysis
Revista Brasileira de Estudos Regionais e Urbanos, 2019 This paper aimed to analyze the spatial distribution of crime in the 5,565 Brazilian municipalities and to investigate its relationship with local economic development. More specifically, we analyze the presence of spatial dependence and heterogeneity as
Pedro Henrique Batista de Barros +3 more
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The Financial Flows of the Transnational Crime: Some Preliminary Empirical Results [PDF]
Until 2008, the growth of the world economy was quite strong and improved the economic well-being all over the globe, but this development was also accompanied by some risks.
Friedrich Schneider
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British 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
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Untangling the determinants of crime in South Africa [PDF]
, 2013 Includes abstract.Includes bibliographical references.This study investigates the relationships between several key economic, sociodemographic and infrastructural factors and crime in South Africa.
Verrinder, Noel
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Drugs, Crime, Space, and Time: A Spatiotemporal Examination of Drug Activity and Crime Rates [PDF]
, 2020 To take stock of the “neighborhood effects” of drug activity, we combined theoretical insights from the drugs and crime and communities and place literatures in examining the longitudinal relationship between drug activity and crime rates at more ...
Contreras, C, Hipp, JR
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On the Economics of Crime and Confiscation
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1990 This little paper is presented in the form of two puzzles. It shows that simple supply and demand analysis leads to surprising results about the effect of confiscating illegally traded goods.
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This paper critically analyses how school readiness has been historically and discursively constructed in Early Childhood Education (ECE) policy in England over the past four decades. Using Bacchi's ‘What's the Problem Represented to be?’ framework and Foucauldian concepts of governmentality, the paper explores how school readiness has shifted
Louise Kay
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The Economics of Crime: Investigating the Drugs-Crime Channel [PDF]
The rising trends both in drug addiction and crime rates are of major public concern in Germany. Surprisingly, the economic theory of crime seems to ignore the drugs-crime nexus, whereas the criminological literature considers illicit drug use a main ...
Entorf, Horst, Winker, Peter
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Economic Fluctuations and Crime : Temporary and Persistent Effects [PDF]
, 2015 Publisher ...
Bender, Keith Allen +1 more
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What works in internal alternative provision? A salutogenic analysis
British 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
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