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Concentrations of railway metal theft and the locations of scrap-metal dealers [PDF]

, 2015
Metal theft has become a substantial crime problem in many areas. In response, several countries have introduced legislation to regulate scrap-metal recycling yards. However, at present there is little evidence to support this use of the market reduction
Ashby, MPJ, Bowers, KJ
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Crimes and Crime Dispersion in Urban Areas in Turkey

Bulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic Series, 2010
Crime is a phenomenon that arises from the interaction between social, political, economic, physical, psychological circumstances and geographical factors.
Sargin Sevil, Temurçin Kadir
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Geography of Crime and Geographic Information Systems [PDF]

Journal of Forensic Sciences & Criminal Investigation, 2017
A link between human geography and criminology has been established as a result of the development of strong parallel that has existed in science for decades, similar to how criminology was predominantly put in the focus of sociology due to the series of paradigm shifts. Cognitive mapping, environmental perception and values and meanings attributed to “
Butorac, Ksenija, Marinović, Jelena
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The social disorganization of intimate partner violence

Journal of Community Safety and Well-Being, 2019
Recently, scholars have begun to recognize new theoretical connections between geography and intimate partner violence (IPV). One such theory is social disorganization theory (SDT).
Anthony Piscitelli, Sean Doherty
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Spatiotemporal Analysis of Nighttime Crimes in Vienna, Austria

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
Studying the spatiotemporal dynamics of crime is crucial for accurate crime geography research. While studies have examined crime patterns related to weekdays, seasons, and specific events, there is a noticeable gap in research on nighttime crimes.
Jiyoung Lee, Michael Leitner, Gernot Paulus   +2 more
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Nature of Crime and Challenges of Policing in Haor Areas of Bangladesh: A Study in Kishoreganj and Netrokona Districts

International Journal of Qualitative Research
Green criminology is a multidisciplinary field that seeks to explain the relationship between crime and geography. Bangladeshi criminologists and crime preventionists are increasingly conscious of crime-location relationships.
Md. Abdul Kader Miah, Nahida Shaulin
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Right place, right time? Making crime pattern theory time-specific

Crime Science, 2021
Objectives Crime pattern theory and the related empirical research have remained rather a-temporal, as if the timing of routine activities and crime plays no role.
Sabine E. M. van Sleeuwen, Stijn Ruiter, Wouter Steenbeek   +2 more
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Geographical Studies on Human Trafficking in China: Progress Review and Governance Implications

Redai dili, 2022
The crime of human trafficking is an abnormal (involuntary, passive) phenomenon of population migration (disappearance, persecution); it has attracted great attention from the public and academic community because of its resultant social harm and far ...
Li Gang, Yu Yue, Zhou Junjun, Jin An'nan
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Historical geography III: hope persists [PDF]

, 2019
The final report in this series focuses on the emerging intersections between historical geography, archaeology and the law. Whilst staying attuned to the darkest of geographies emerging from the sub-field, this report turns its attention to the ...
McGeachan, Cheryl
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Affective dimensions of urban crime areas : towards the psycho-geography of urban problem areas [PDF]

Geographica Helvetica
Traditional studies of crime areas within cities by geographers focus on the spatial variations in the incidence of crime, as well as the social deprivation and social disorganization of these areas. Although these social content and behavioural features
W. K. D. Davies
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