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The Legacies of Lockdown: Moral Logics of Exchange and Mistrust in Postpandemic China

open access: yesEconomic 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
wiley   +1 more source

Spatial economics of crime: spatial design factors and the total social cost of crime against individuals and property in London [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Combining two original pieces of research, the first on the spatial attributes of two types of crime and the second on the total social cost of the same crime, this paper proposes a methodology to evaluate the total socio-economic cost of spatial ...
Hillier, B   +5 more
core  

Normalizing the Shamed Self: Stigma, Neutralization and “Narrative Credibility” in Interviews on White‐Collar Transgression

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
In this article, I analyze my interviews with Mark (pseudonym), a social scientist who committed major academic fraud in over 50 top‐tier journal articles in the first decade of this century. I explain how stigma played a central role in how Mark and I shaped our interaction. I focus on how Mark, a former Professor and Dean with a distinguished career,
Thaddeus Müller
wiley   +1 more source

“Eyes on the Street” as a Conditioning Factor for Street Safety Comprehension: Quito as a Case Study

open access: yesBuildings
The presence of people has a complex relationship with public safety—while it is often associated with increased natural surveillance, it can also attract specific types of crime under certain urban conditions.
Nuria Vidal-Domper   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Community policing as an answer to raising street crime rates [PDF]

open access: yesPravni Zapisi, 2014
This article provides a general overview of the phenomenon of community policing with regard to suppression of street crime. The author offers a definition of this phenomenon and presents its most important characteristics, conditions for its occurrence,
Matković Aleksandar
doaj  

Crime concentration at micro-places in Latin America

open access: yesCrime Science, 2019
Research on crime concentration at micro-places has had a very western-industrialised focus. In this paper we provide results on crime concentration for 42 cities in Latin America.
Spencer P. Chainey   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Crime and the NTE: multi-classification crime (MCC) hot spots in time and space [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This paper examines crime hot spots near licensed premises in the night-time economy (NTE) to investigate whether hot spots of four different classification of crime and disorder co-occur in time and place, namely violence, disorder, drugs and criminal ...
Newton, Andrew   +3 more
core   +1 more source

“Bad Things Happen in Philadelphia”: Managing Stigma and Threats in the Wake of False Criminal Accusations

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
In the aftermath of the 2020 U.S. election, the boundary between activism and extremism blurred, with election officials reporting violent threats and false accusations of election fraud. From a symbolic interactionist perspective, these attacks provide a unique lens for examining the consequences of being falsely labeled a criminal.
Steven Windisch
wiley   +1 more source

Drugs on the Web, Crime in the Streets. The Impact of Shutdowns of Dark Net Marketplaces on Street Crime

open access: yesJournal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022
The Dark Net has changed the way drugs are traded globally by shifting trade away from the streets and onto the web. In this paper, I study whether the shutdown of Dark Net marketplaces has an impact on the amount of drugs traded in the streets and on crimes that are normally associated to street drug dealing.
openaire   +2 more sources

The Gangs of Bangladesh: Exploring Organised Crime, Street Gangs and ‘Illicit Child Labourers’ in Dhaka [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This article presents a study of street children’s involvement in organized crime in Bangladesh. It is based on an empirical case study conducted in Dhaka and draws on interviews with 22 street children, 80 interviews with criminal justice practitioners,
Atkinson-Sheppard, S.
core   +1 more source

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