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Linking the religious and social environment to sexual minority mental health

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract In the United States, mental health disparities persist between sexual minorities – people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or other nonheterosexual identifications – and heterosexuals. Although research shows that structural stigma in one's environment may contribute to such disparities, little research has examined religious ...
Nathan R. Todd, Daniel M. Nguyễn, Allyson M. Blackburn, Raymond La, Seungju Kim   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

State and green crimes related to water pollution and ecological disorganization: water pollution from publicly owned treatment works (POTW) facilities across US states [PDF]

, 2017
Green criminologists often refer to water pollution as an example of a green crime, but have yet to produce much research on this subject. The current article addresses the need for green criminological analyses of water pollution problems, and draws ...
Long, Michael, Lynch, Michael J., Stretesky, Paul   +2 more
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Using community‐based participatory research to contextualize Latino exposure to community violence: A mixed qualitative and spatial analysis approach

American 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, Maureen T. S. Burns, Maryse H. Richards, Catherine DeCarlo Santiago, Ogechi “Cynthia” Onyeka, Amanda White, Felix K. So   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Urban 'disorders', 'problem places' and criminal justice in Scotland [PDF]

, 2010
[About the book] The existence of the separate criminal jurisdiction in Scotland is ignored by most criminological texts purporting to consider crime and criminal justice in 'Britain' or the 'UK'.
Helms, Gesa, Law, Alex, Mooney, Gerry
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Red state, blue state, green state: analysing the geography of federal environmental crime prosecutions within and across the U.S. states

Palgrave Communications, 2017
While green criminologists note that environmental crimes are taken less seriously than street crimes by law enforcement and the criminal justice system, the diffuse structure of the environmental regulatory regime in the United States and lack of ...
Joshua Ozymy, Melissa L. Jarrell
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The “Best of Both Worlds”: Building a community‐academic partnership for research with legal system‐impacted individuals

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Equitable community‐academic research partnerships provide an innovative way to advance health outcomes among criminal legal system‐impacted individuals. The extant literature lacks accounts that detail the process for developing such partnerships, particularly in community‐based (rather than carceral) settings and with community organizations
Talia R. Cohen, Karen Reece, Aaron Hicks, Deborah Mejchar, Carmen Alonso, Anthony Cooper, Michael R. Koenigs, Daniel W. Grupe   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Crime, fear of crime and mental health: synthesis of theory and systematic reviews of interventions and qualitative evidence

Public Health Research, 2014
Background: Crime and fear of crime may impact negatively on health and well-being. Interventions to reduce crime and fear of crime, particularly interventions in the physical environment, may be a promising way to improve population-level well-being ...
Theo Lorenc, Mark Petticrew, Margaret Whitehead, David Neary, Stephen Clayton, Kath Wright, Hilary Thomson, Steven Cummins, Amanda Sowden, Adrian Renton   +9 more
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Spatial and environmental consistency in serial sexual assault [PDF]

, 2009
This study examines the crime patterns of 76 New Zealand serial sexual offenders in order to determine the extent to which offenders display locational consistency in their choice of crime locations. More specifically, the hypothesis was that there would
Amir, Brantingham, Brantingham, Canter, Canter, Canter, Cohen, Corbett, Craik, Crampton, Douglas, Hair, Hazelwood, Kocsis, Le Beau, Le Beau, Lundrigan, Meaney, Miethe, Pease, Rengert, Rossmo, Warren   +22 more
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Exploring the link between the risk of violent injury in adolescents and historic redlining practices

American 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, Thomas A. Nixon Jr., Diane Bishop, Anabeel Sen, Derek A. Chapman, Nicholas D. Thomson   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Liability of legal persons for criminal offenses against the environment [PDF]

Glasnik Advokatske komore Vojvodine
For the past twenty years, the Republic of Croatia has recognized the liability of legal persons for every criminal offense in the Criminal Code, including criminal offenses against the environment.
Kurtović Mišić Anita, Sokanović Lucija, Mladinić Nina   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source