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Neighborhood social environments and mental health among youth and adults in public housing

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Neighborhoods influence health in part through social processes. However, little is known about how multiple neighborhood social processes co‐occur, or about within (vs. between) neighborhood variation in social processes and health. This study asked how residents of a large public housing development describe their neighborhood and used ...
Jane Leer   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

THE EFFECTIVENESS OF INDONESIAN NATIONAL POLICE FUNCTION ON BANGGAI REGENCY POLICE INVESTIGATION (Investigation Case Study Year 2008-2016)

open access: yes, 2017
Criminal justice processes are frequently unwell-implemented due to various investigators’ shortcomings in performing the ir function. This research aims to determine and analyze the effectiveness of the police investigation into the handling of Criminal
Hardianto Djanggih, Kamri Ahmad
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Crime Trends: 1990-2016 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This report examines crime trends at the national and city level during the last quarter century. It covers the years 1990 through 2016, as crime rates peaked in 1991.
Ames C. Grawert   +2 more
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“Will you be there for me?” Social support from family and friends during cold case sexual assault prosecutions

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract If sexual assault survivors report the assault to the criminal legal system, they often need informal support from family and friends throughout the long and frequently retraumatizing process of investigation and prosecution. This study is part of a long‐term community‐based participatory action research project in a predominately Black ...
Rebecca Campbell   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

On or off the record? Detecting patterns of silence about death in Guatemala’s National Police Archive

open access: yes, 2017
This paper investigates how the production of police records was linked to the policies of repression and violence during Guatemala’s civil war. We provide empirical evidence from the Historical Archive of the Guatemalan National Police that the police ...
Tamy Guberek, M. Hedstrom
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Legal interpreters in the news in Ireland [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This article consists of a review of court reports from national and provincial newspapers in Ireland from 2003 to 1st August 2010. The reports provide an insight into the attitudes of judges, lawyers and police officers to defendants who are not ...
Phelan, Mary
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Police community support officers in England:a dramaturgical analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Police community support officers (PCSOs) have become an integral part of neighbourhood policing teams (NPTs) in England and Wales since the national roll-out of neighbourhood policing in 2008.
Association of Chief of Police Officers of England, Wales and Northern Ireland,   +25 more
core   +3 more sources

Trauma‐Informed Practice in Welfare‐to‐Work and Employment Services: A Scoping Review

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There is increasing recognition within welfare services, including employment services, that many participants may have histories of trauma. Research suggests that experiences of trauma not only impact individuals' psychosocial health but also vocational elements such as job performance, employability, career progression, and financial ...
Emily Corbett   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Identity, culture and democratization: the case of Egypt [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
This article seeks to present an alternative approach to understanding the failure of democratization in the Arab world by locating the problem of democracy-building within the logic of the process of reproducing national identity and culture.
Pratt, Nicola Christine
core   +1 more source

Don't Worry About Her; Intersectionality, and the Role of Systems and Structures in the Embodied Experiences of Young Women's Use of Violence

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Systems and structures designed to protect and support young people, specifically (in this paper) young women, are ironically the same systems that maintain gender disparity. Consequently, this has influenced the embodied identities of young women who experience and use violence. Such systemic and structural intersectionality has impacted upon
Louise Rak   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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