Institutional conditions and social innovations in emerging economies: insights from Mexican enterprises’ initiatives for protecting/preventing the effect of violent events [PDF]
, 2020 Latin-American countries are characterised by societal problems like violence, crime, corruption, the informality that influence any entrepreneurial activity developed by individuals/organisations. Social innovations literature confront “wicked problems”
Guerrero, Maribel, Urbano, David
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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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Beyond the Refugee Crisis how the UK news media represent asylum seekers across national boundaries [PDF]
, 2021 Migration is one of the most pressing, divisive issues in global politics today, and media play a crucial role in how communities understand and respond.
Anderson A +29 more
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, 2017 This piece opens with some reflections on the geographies of postcolonial scholarship and encourages us to trace out colonial durations in our lives and in the provocations we face.
Legg, Stephen
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Spatiotemporal Analysis of Nighttime Crimes in Vienna, Austria
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-InformationStudying 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 +2 more
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An exclusive countryside? Crime concern, social exclusion and community policing in two English villages [PDF]
, 2010 Using the example of two English villages, this paper examines whether rural crime concern is evidence of an 'exclusive society' in the countryside. Specific attention is given to concerns expressed by residents as part of a consultation exercise to ...
Yarwood, R
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International Journal of Qualitative ResearchGreen 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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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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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 +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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