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‘Reservoir dogs’: The emerging zoonotic risk associated with European dog imports to the UK

open access: yesVeterinary Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Background The movement of dogs from continental Europe to the UK poses a growing public health threat due to the associated risk of disease incursions. Current legislation is insufficient to address the risks and pre‐import control measures are focused only on rabies virus and the fox tapeworm Echinococcus multilocularis. Methods We conducted
Poppy Simonson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Review of major policy developments and evidence base: crime domain [PDF]

open access: yes
The evidence base review for the Crime Domain examined some of the leading theories used to explain the manifestation of crime (i.e. what makes some neighbourhoods and places more vulnerable to crime than others), presented information on levels of ...
Johnson, Shane D.   +3 more
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Investigating the Crime Reduction Claims of NDC Partnerships [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Determining the impact of the New Deal for Communities (NDC) initiatives on levels of crime is important both for the evaluation of the NDC programme, and, more generally, to advance our understanding of what works in crime prevention (for reviews see,
Young, Chris   +3 more
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The Dark Pyramid: Unpacking the Multidimensional Nature of the Dark Side of Leadership

open access: yesBritish Journal of Management, EarlyView.
Abstract The dark side of leadership has been employed as an umbrella term to cover an array of concepts typically concerned with the dysfunctionality and/or toxicity of individual leaders. As the field of leadership studies moves towards ‘post‐heroic’ perspectives, we apply the same ontological positioning, adopting a ‘post‐villainous’ perspective in ...
Peter Stephenson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Safe or Unsafe? A Street-Level Analysis of the (Mis)Match Between Perceived and Objective Safety in Chaoyang District, Beijing

open access: yesISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
Objective crime risk and perceived safety constitute distinct yet interrelated dimensions of urban security, whose spatial discrepancies may lead to misaligned policy interventions.
Haishuo Gu   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Block-Level Analysis of the Attractors of Robbery in a Downtown Area

open access: yesSAGE Open, 2020
This article examines the predictions of crime pattern theory in a unique neighborhood type. It tested potential crime attracting facilities against street robbery data from 2009 to 2013 in the Police Districts I & II in Downtown Houston.
Kingsley U. Ejiogu
doaj   +1 more source

Taking an Analytical Approach to Crime Prevention in NDC Areas [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
The purpose of this report is to provide some useful lessons relating to the implementation of crime prevention interventions. To do this, we will examine the Crime Theme activities of one NDC Partnership in detail. The research has two main elements.
Johnson, Shane D.   +2 more
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Weighing up crime: the over estimation of drug-related crime [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Background: It is generally accepted that harms from crime cause a very large part of the total social harm that can be attributed to drug use. For example, crime harms accounted for 70% of the weighting of the British Drug Harm Index in 2004. This paper
Stevens, Alex
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Deep Spatio-Temporal Graph Attention Network for Street-Level 110 Call Incident Prediction

open access: yesApplied Sciences
Recent advancements in crime prediction have increasingly focused on street networks, which offer finer granularity and a closer reflection of real-world urban dynamics.
Jinguang Sui, Peng Chen, Haishuo Gu
doaj   +1 more source

"Might Not Be a Tomorrow": A Multi-Methods Approach to Anticipated Early Death and Youth Crime [PDF]

open access: yes
A number of researchers point to the anticipation of early death, or a sense of "futurelessness," as a contributing factor to youth crime and violence. Young people who perceive a high probability of early death, it is argued, may have little reason to ...
Erdal Tekin   +2 more
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