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Fear of Crime and Victimization: Retracing Women’s Risk Perceptions in Private Spaces in the Urban city of Kolkata [PDF]
, 2013 This article uses qualitative methodology to explore women’s fear of crime in intimate relations, an area until now uncharted. The rich scholarship on fear of crime has exclusively dealt with fear of crime on the streets, ignoring the threat of crime ...
Sur, Piyali
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‘Somewhere We Can Call Home and…Be Normal’: Findings From the Justice Housing Programme Evaluation
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The relationship between homelessness or unstable housing and reincarceration is well documented. The initial month after a person is released from custody is a period of particular vulnerability, with an increased risk of homelessness and return to prison.
Helen Taylor, Lorana Bartels
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“Danger lurks around every corner”: fear of crime and its impact on opportunities for social interaction in stigmatised Australian suburbs [PDF]
, 2005 This article examines some of the ways in which fear of crime impacts upon opportunities for social interaction among residents in stigmatised suburbs. As we explore in this article, neighbourhoods that are stigmatised by virtue of material disadvantage ...
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Examining the Impact of Domestic and Family Violence on Young Australians’ School‐Level Education
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Australian policy and practice increasingly acknowledges the need to respond to children as victim‐survivors of domestic and family violence (DFV) in their own right. As part of this, and in recognition that schools often have the most consistent contact with young people experiencing DFV, there is mounting recognition of the role education ...
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Approaching/Departure: effacement, erasure and 'undoing' the fear of crime [PDF]
, 2014 This paper contributes to contemporary debates about the geographies of gendered fear of crime by examining the way in which a group of young women negotiate fear of crime in public space by creating spatial, social, discursive, or affective distance ...
Fanghanel, Alexandra
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study explores youth violence towards police officers in Australia through the Power Threat Meaning Framework (PTMF) to better understand the underlying factors contributing to such violence; focusing on power dynamics, childhood adversity, and trauma.
Dimitra Lattas +4 more
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Fear of crime, perceived disorders and property crime: a multivariate analysis at the area level [In: Farrell, G., Bowers, K., Johnson, S.D. and Townsley, M., eds., Imagination for crime prevention: essays in honor of Ken Pease] [PDF]
, 2007 This work estimates associated models of areas’ fear of crime, perceived disorders and property crime rates over area characteristics and region of England and Wales via multivariate (multilevel) modelling.
Tseloni, A
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Resilient or resigned? Criminal victimisation and quality of life in South Africa [PDF]
, 2005 A victimisation study conducted among 3300 householders in South Africa’s Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Municipality (NMMM) in the Eastern Cape Province aimed to inform a crime prevention strategy for the metropolitan area.
Moller, Valerie
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Robodebt scheme issued thousand‐dollar debts to an estimated half a million people who had received social security. The debts were largely inaccurate and illegal, with the aim of improving the federal government's budget. The 2023 Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme found that the stigmatising political and public language about ...
Ella Kruger, Phillipa Evans
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