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Urban Street Network Configuration and Property Crime: An Empirical Multivariate Case Study

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
In 21st-century American cities, urban crime remains a critical public safety concern influenced by complex social, political, and environmental structures.
Erfan Kefayat, Jean-Claude Thill
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Mitigating Health Disparities Through Empathetic Policymaking During Times of Crisis

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The COVID‐19 pandemic greatly exacerbated the existing disparities and inequities in health and healthcare among historically marginalized populations. Today, these impacts still echo. These persistent structured inequities erode the public's trust in government, lead to failure in public policies, and result in worse health consequences ...
Yali Pang, Brittany Keegan, Robyn D. McDougle   +2 more
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National Policy Coherence Counts for Reducing Inequality in Global Climate and Development Agendas

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT International institutions promote policy coherence as crucial to the effective and fair implementation of global sustainability agendas, though the evidence for its benefits is slim. We present here the first systematic cross‐country dataset on the consequences of national government efforts to promote policy coherence for vulnerable groups ...
Katherine Browne, Adis Dzebo, Zoha Shawoo, Mario Cardenas, Pierrick Chalaye, Alexia Faus Onbargi, Cassilde Muhoza, Patricia Nicdao, Nokwethaba Makhanya, Navam Niles, Priyatma Singh   +10 more
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The influence mechanism of urban street environment on juvenile delinquency based on multi-source data fusion: a case study of Manhattan, New York

Computational Urban Science
Streets are an important component of urban public spaces and also a high-incidence area for urban crime. However, current research mainly involves adult crime, or fails to distinguish between adult and juvenile crime, which poses a severe challenge to ...
Bingcheng Li, Gang Li, Li Lan, Annan Jin, Zhe Lin, Yatong Wang, Xiliang Chen   +6 more
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The implementation and impact of crime prevention / crime control open street Closed-Circuit Television surveillance in South African Central Business Districts

Surveillance & Society, 2002
The use and implementation of public open street Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) surveillance systems in Central Business Districts (CBDs) in South Africa solely for the purpose of crime control (reducing street crime) or crime prevention (deterrence ...
Anthony Minnaar
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Smuggling Sovereignty: Trade, Transgression, and State Authority

Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Global supply chains are saturated with transgressions—corruption, smuggling, document forgery, and other practices that blur the line between legality and illegality. States do not merely endure these practices; they actively shape the conditions for them, producing the very illegal systems they then claim to police.
Dejana Kostić
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The Legacies of Lockdown: Moral Logics of Exchange and Mistrust in Postpandemic China

Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT When Shanghai entered an extended lockdown under China's Zero‐COVID policy in spring 2022, residents found themselves confined within their residential compounds, cut off from conventional supply chains, and dependent on improvised systems of local provisioning and state rationing. From the perspective of economic anthropology, such conditions
Erika Kuever
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Are client ties pre‐entry resources? Performance implications of client tie diversification

Strategic Management Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary This study investigates client tie diversification, where firms enter markets with existing clients. Recognizing the theoretical basis for both positive and negative performance implications, the paper adopts a question‐driven approach and discovers a strong negative correlation between client tie diversification and firm ...
Heejung Byun
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Built environment attributes and crime: an automated machine learning approach

Crime Science, 2020
This paper presents the development of an automated machine learning approach to gain an understanding of the built environment and its relationship to crime. This involves the automatic capture of street-level photographs using Google Street View (GSV),
Kyle Dakin, Weizhi Xie, Simon Parkinson, Saad Khan, Leanne Monchuk, Ken Pease   +5 more
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Reconciling Goffman and Disability Studies: “Interactional” and “Structural” Stigma in the Lives of Parents of Learning‐Disabled Adults

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Erving Goffman cuts a divisive figure in disability studies. Some criticize his conception of “stigma” as deviance‐focused and as ignoring structural forces that shape personal encounters. Others praise his recognition of stigma as an interactional phenomenon.
Gareth M. Thomas
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