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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In Australia, governments fund Community Legal Centres (CLCs) as part of the legal assistance sector (LAS) to meet the ‘legal needs’ of people experiencing disadvantage who cannot afford private legal services. Persistent unmet demand for CLCs is well‐documented. As artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly used in private legal practice to
Catherine Hastings +2 more
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Burglars and wardrobe monsters. Practical and ethical problems in the reduction of crime fear
, 2007 The paper argues for the de-emphasis of the reduction of crime fear as a policy objective. The paper rehearses measurement and ethical issues which support such a view.
Christmann, Kris, Rogerson, Michelle
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The rapid increase in older people in prison populations worldwide is generating significant health, cost, and human rights pressures on custodial systems. Compassionate release for older, frail inmates is a potentially effective response, yet little is known about public support for this approach.
Ye In (Jane) Hwang +3 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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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Indigenous wellbeing theories offer potential to better measure social and cultural determinants. This scoping review aimed to identify the types of metrics used by the Australian government to assess wellbeing and evaluate the alignment of current frameworks against Indigenous and non‐Indigenous conceptualisations of wellbeing.
Sophie Wright‐Pedersen +5 more
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The discovery of fear of crime in the UK [PDF]
, 2017 This chapter explores the way in which the fear of crime emerged as a policy issue and as a criminological topic in the United Kingdom in the early 1980s.
Hough, Mike
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Quantifying the Sites of Government, Commercial, and Personal Systems‐Perpetrated Financial Abuse
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study explores the institutional systems through which post‐separation financial abuse is perpetrated. While existing measures seek to quantify the harms experienced by women post‐separation, this study draws on financial, welfare and legal service casefiles to identify where such harms occur. Drawing on 76 de‐identified Victorian service
Kay Cook +3 more
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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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Across the wide prairie: Exploring fear of crime in a small Canadian municipality
, 2021 Although fear of crime is well-researched in urban domains, the predictors of fear of crime in non-urban contexts are less established. Using a sample of 559 people, this study aims to address this gap by evaluating the role of individual and ecological ...
Lunney, Kate, Hodgkinson, Tarah
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Comparing the Determinants of Concern about Terrorism and Crime [PDF]
Both crime and terrorism impose costs onto society through the channels of fear and worry. Identifying and targeting groups which are especially affected by worries might be one way to reduce the total costs of these two types of insecurity.
Cathérine Müller, Tilman Brück
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