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Anti‐social behaviour law and policy in the United Kingdom [PDF]
International Journal of Law in the Built Environment, 2010 PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of enforcement action on individuals and families living in social housing as a mode of intervention for dealing with anti‐social behaviour.Design/methodology/approachRelevant housing legislation and policy documents are reviewed.
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The Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014: implications for sex workers and their clients [PDF]
, 2015 © 2015 Taylor & Francis. The Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 introduced new powers to deal with behaviour deemed to be ‘anti-social’. In this paper we consider how the new law could be used against sex workers and their clients and the
Ashworth A. +21 more
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Power laws, Pareto distributions and Zipf's law
, 2005 When the probability of measuring a particular value of some quantity varies inversely as a power of that value, the quantity is said to follow a power law, also known variously as Zipf's law or the Pareto distribution.
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Managing multiple, geographically-separated identities, and its effect on employee retention
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Extant literature posits that an individual manages their multiple identities by integrating or separating them to varying degrees. We posit that, rather than managing a single set of identities, an individual may engage different identity structures in ...
Kerrie L. Unsworth, Ami N. Seivwright
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Why Mexicans (Dis) Obey the Law : Social Norms, Legal Punishment and Pluralistic Ignorance
Public Governance, Administration and Finances Law Review, 2023 This paper presents the results of an experimental research project on the causes of Mexicans’ law-abiding and non-abiding behaviour. Firstly, it explains the theories tested, namely, deterrence and normative theory of law-abidance, and defines the ...
Rebeca Pérez León
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Law and Behaviors in Social Dilemmas: Testing the Effect of Obligations on Cooperation [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2005 Laws consist of two components: the 'obligations' they express and the 'incentives' designed to enforce them.In this paper we run a public good experiment to test whether or not obligations have any independent effect on cooperation in social dilemmas.The results show that, for given marginal incentives, different levels of minimum contribution ...
Galbiati, R., Vertova, P.
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BMC Public Health, 2023 Background The COVID-19 pandemic, and associated public health measures, had a marked impact on a number of health and wellbeing outcomes, including alcohol use and violence.
Carly Lightowlers +2 more
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The economic approach to designing anticorruption institutions [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2021 Contemporary economic analysis of corrupt behaviour requires practical consideration of the issues concerning projecting of social anti-corruption institutions.
Molokanov Viktor +4 more
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Shifting behaviour of users: Towards understanding the fundamental law of Social Networks [PDF]
2016 8th International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS), 2016 Social Networking Sites (SNSs) are powerful marketing and communication tools. There are hundreds of SNSs that have entered and exited the market over time. The coexistence of multiple SNSs is a rarely observed phenomenon. Most coexisting SNSs either serve different purposes for its users or have cultural differences among them.
Gupta, Yayati +3 more
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Feature selection using Benford's law to support detection of malicious social media bots
Information Sciences, 2022 The increased amount of high-dimensional imbalanced data in online social networks challenges existing feature selection methods. Although feature selection methods such as principal component analysis (PCA) are effective for solving high-dimensional ...
Innocent Mbona, J. Eloff
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