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Cluster analysis of homicide rates in the Brazilian state of Goias from 2002 to 2014 [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the 44th Latin American Computing Conference - Clei 2018. S\~ao Paulo, Brazil (2018), 2018
Homicide mortality is a worldwide concern and has occupied the agenda of researchers and public managers. In Brazil, homicide is the third leading cause of death in the general population and the first in the 15-39 age group. In South America, Brazil has the third highest homicide mortality, behind Venezuela and Colombia.
arxiv  

Multiplayer Homicidal Chauffeur Reach-Avoid Games via Guaranteed Winning Strategies [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2021
This paper studies a planar multiplayer Homicidal Chauffeur reach-avoid differential game, where each pursuer is a Dubins car and each evader has simple motion. The pursuers aim to protect a goal region cooperatively from the evaders. Due to the high-dimensional strategy space among pursuers, we decompose the whole game into multiple one-pursuer-one ...
arxiv  

When Men Murder Women: An Analysis of 2011 Homicide Data [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This is the 2013 edition of an annual report prepared by the Violence Policy Center detailing the reality of homicides committed against females by single male offenders.

core  

Lost Lives: Miscarriages of Justice in Capital Cases [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
Gross discusses the incidence of erroneous convictions for capital murder, which are systematic consequences of the natuere of homicide prosection in general and capital prosecution in ...
Gross, Samuel R.
core   +5 more sources

Gender Differences in Patterns and Trends in U.S. Homicide, 1976–2015

open access: yes, 2017
In the research literature on homicide, gender has generally received less attention than other demographic characteristics, specifically the age and race of victims and offenders.
James Alan Fox, Emma E. Fridel
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Revisiting the Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Crime: A Global Analysis

open access: yesInternational Studies of Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Drawing upon extensive literature on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) spillovers, we hypothesize that FDI inflow represents a double‐edged sword with respect to crime in host countries. On one hand, FDI can contribute to economic growth and social well‐being by infusing capital and knowledge into the host countries, thereby potentially ...
Yuan Chen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Scaling properties of firearm homicides in Brazilian cities [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2019
The recent quantitative approaches for studing several aspects of urban life and infrastructure have shown that scale properties allow to understand many features of urban infrastructure and of human activity in cities. In this work, an analysis based on the complexity of cities network is performed for data on Brazilian cities firearms homicides.
arxiv  

Black Box Model Explanations and the Human Interpretability Expectations -- An Analysis in the Context of Homicide Prediction [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2022
Strategies based on Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) have promoted better human interpretability of the results of black box models. This opens up the possibility of questioning whether explanations created by XAI methods meet human expectations.
arxiv  

Partner violence surrounding divorce: A record‐linkage study of wives and their husbands

open access: yesJournal of Marriage and Family, Volume 85, Issue 1, Page 33-54, February 2023., 2023
Abstract Objective This study analyzes the victimization trajectories of partner violence against women surrounding divorce, depending on whether the couple has children together. Background Prior studies have found that partner violence is associated with an increased risk of divorce.
Elina Einiö   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Alcohol sale status and homicide victimization in Kentucky, 2005-2012: Is there a spatial association?

open access: yesGeospatial Health, 2019
To date, the association between the alcohol sale status of decedents’ residence and alcohol-related homicide victimization have not been studied as far as we know.
Hanan Abdulghafoor Khaleel   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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