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Reducing Fear of Crime for Sustaining Cities; A Case Study from Turkey. [PDF]
In urban areas, fear of crime constitutes as much a problem as crime itself. Fear of crime is often associated with fear for oneââ¬â¢s personal safety, particularly, safety from violent crimes and physical or sexual harassment in public areas.
Deniz Deniz
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The Legislation for Providing Animal Access in Australian Residential Aged Care: It's Not a Zoo
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Providing meaningful animal contact to residential aged care facility (RACF) residents is problematic due to a lack of animal policies and National Guidelines. This paper examines how Australian Legislation could influence access to animal contact in RACFs and aims to answer the question, ‘Could current Legislation facilitate the development ...
Wendy Newton +2 more
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Città, violenza urbana e sentimento di insicurezza / Villes, violence urbaine et sentiment d’insécurité / Cities, urban violence and insecurity [PDF]
Rivista di Criminologia, Vittimologia e Sicurezza, 2012 Cet article met en évidence que la violence urbaine et l’insécurité sont des thèmes centraux pour les sociétés actuelles car ils font partie des préoccupations de la population et de la vie démocratique de manière significative.
Lourenço Nelson
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Psychological proximity and the construal of crime: a commentary on ‘mapping fear of crime as a context-dependent everyday experience that varies in space and time’ [PDF]
, 2015 Fear of crime is a dynamic psychosocial phenomenon, and sophisticated methodologies are necessary in order to explore its multidimensionality and complexity.
Gouseti, Ioanna, Jackson, Jonathan
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Alcohol and other drug‐facilitated sexual violence can have significant impacts on victim‐survivors, yet little is known about what support service providers offer them. To understand the experiences and perceptions of service providers, interviews with counsellors, health workers, forensic toxicologists and harm reduction workers were ...
Jessica Ison +5 more
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SAGE Open, 2015 The factors that determne the health and well-being of older populations are increasingly recognized as critical public health issues. The focus of this review article is to provide evidence for the role of fear of crime in determining the mental health ...
Rachael E. Collins, Diano F. Marrone
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How to break a rape culture: gendered fear of crime and the myth of the stranger-rapist [PDF]
, 2018 Concern about the gendered nature of fear of crime (and in particular of sex crime), and the spatialisation of fear of crime discourses have preoccupied feminist activists, criminologists and other social scientists for at least the past quarter century.
Fanghanel, Alexandra
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Fear of Crime Among Chinese Immigrants [PDF]
, 2010 Western scholars implicitly assume that the correlates of fear of crime discovered in the extant literature are also applicable to populations of different culture and ethnic backgrounds. The current study investigates whether such an assumption is valid,
Kercher, Glen +2 more
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The Cost of the National Disability Insurance Scheme: Australia's Print‐Media Discourse
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines the way that Australian newspapers have framed the cost of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Introduced in 2013, the NDIS represented a major change in Australia's disability support policy, moving for the first time to a nationwide universal insurance model.
Meera Chinnappa +2 more
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Child sexual exploitation (CSE) is an insidious form of child sexual abuse (CSA) that impacts Australia's most vulnerable children and young people. Reports of CSE abuses experienced by children and young people living in out‐of‐home care (OOHC) have spurred urgent calls for improving responses to CSE in Australia.
Sarah Ciftci +2 more
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