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The Nexus between Crime Rates, Poverty, and Income Inequality: A Case Study of Indonesia

open access: yesEconomies, 2023
This study examines whether income inequality and poverty are determinants of crime rates across 34 provinces in Indonesia. Three indicators of income inequality and four poverty measures are tested to examine whether the dimension and degree of unequal ...
Lilik Sugiharti   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

County-level associations between food retailer availability and violent crime rate

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2022
Background Violent crime (i.e., homicide, armed robbery, aggravated assault, and rape) continues to be a major public health concern in America. Several studies have linked the availability and density of specific features of the retail food environment,
Chelsea R. Singleton   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Conceptualising quality early childhood education: Learning from young children in Brazil and South Africa through creative and play‐based methods

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Early childhood has increasingly been acknowledged as a vital time for all children. Inclusive and quality education is part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, with the further specification that all children have access to quality pre‐primary education.
Laura H. V. Wright   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Crime Risk Stations: Examining Spatiotemporal Influence of Urban Features through Distance-Aware Risk Signal Functions

open access: yesISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2021
Static indicators may fail to capture spatiotemporal differences in the spatial influence of urban features on different crime types. In this study, with a base station analogy, we introduced crime risk stations that conceptualize the spatial influence ...
Tugrul Cabir Hakyemez, Bertan Badur
doaj   +1 more source

Food safety in Finland 2020 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
This report presents the 2020 results of regulatory control related to food safety, official controls and monitoring programmes on food and feed as well as research and risk assessments.
Finnish Food Authority
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Relationship between county-level crime and diabetes: Mediating effect of physical inactivity

open access: yesPreventive Medicine Reports, 2020
This paper assessed the extent to which physical inactivity accounts for the relationship between the crime rate and prevalence of type 2 diabetes in the United States.
McKenzie Hanigan   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Health disparities in chronic liver disease

open access: yesHepatology, EarlyView., 2022
Abstract The syndemic of hazardous alcohol consumption, opioid use, and obesity has led to important changes in liver disease epidemiology that have exacerbated health disparities. Health disparities occur when plausibly avoidable health differences are experienced by socially disadvantaged populations.
Ani Kardashian   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Crime scene examiners and volume crime investigations: an empirical study of perception and practice [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Most police forces in the UK employ specially trained crime scene examiners (CSEs) to provide forensic science support to the investigation of crime. Previous research has shown wide variations in the management, deployment, and performance of this staff
Fraser, Jim   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Crime as Pollution? Theoretical, Definitional and Policy Concerns with Conceptualizing Crime as Pollution [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Criminologists have advocated understanding ‘crime as pollution’ to argue for market based crime control policy initiatives that mirror pollution control policy initiatives.
Stretesky, Paul   +5 more
core   +1 more source

An Analysis of the Association between Food Insecurity and Violent Crime in Georgia in 2020

open access: yes, 2023
INTRODUCTION: Ten percent of Georgia households reported being food insecure between 2018 to 2020, and 3.8 percent of Georgia households with children reported being food insecure.
Finnerty, Shawn
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