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Responding to Gun Crime in Ireland [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
From stereotypical views of Ireland as a peaceful and ‘low crime’ society, the media and policy makers now report the worsening of gun crime, in particular crimes of homicide committed by firearm.
Campbell, Liz, Liz Campbell, L. Campbell
core   +1 more source

Public Attitudes Toward Compassionate Release of Older People From Prison: Findings From a National Survey in Australia

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The rapid increase in older people in prison populations worldwide is generating significant health, cost, and human rights pressures on custodial systems. Compassionate release for older, frail inmates is a potentially effective response, yet little is known about public support for this approach.
Ye In (Jane) Hwang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hate is in the air! But where? Introducing an algorithm to detect hate speech in digital microenvironments

open access: yesCrime Science, 2018
With the objective of facilitating and reducing analysis tasks undergone by law enforcement agencies and service providers, and using a sample of digital messages (i.e., tweets) sent via Twitter following the June 2017 London Bridge terror attack (N ...
Fernando Miró-Llinares   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

To What Extent Do Australian Government Metrics Align With Indigenous and Non‐Indigenous Conceptualisations of Wellbeing? A Scoping Review of Wellbeing Frameworks

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Indigenous wellbeing theories offer potential to better measure social and cultural determinants. This scoping review aimed to identify the types of metrics used by the Australian government to assess wellbeing and evaluate the alignment of current frameworks against Indigenous and non‐Indigenous conceptualisations of wellbeing.
Sophie Wright‐Pedersen   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

A virtual-reality based intervention on thoughts of the future self to reduce negative affect, depression, and suicidal ideation: protocol for a feasibility and acceptability randomized controlled pilot trial (FutureU for Mental Health)

open access: yesPilot and Feasibility Studies
Background Thinking about the future in a clear and detailed way is critical to daily life, generating meaning, motivation, and well-being overall. In depression and suicidal ideation (SI), executive functioning deficits can make future-oriented thinking
Margaret A. Webb, Jean-Louis van Gelder
doaj   +1 more source

Quantifying the Sites of Government, Commercial, and Personal Systems‐Perpetrated Financial Abuse

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores the institutional systems through which post‐separation financial abuse is perpetrated. While existing measures seek to quantify the harms experienced by women post‐separation, this study draws on financial, welfare and legal service casefiles to identify where such harms occur. Drawing on 76 de‐identified Victorian service
Kay Cook   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Guatemala elites and organized crime [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
CACIF is the de facto political party of Guatemala's economic elites. It unites the most important economic actors and is capable of integrating, via informal mechanisms, the heads of consortia and family groups with significant weight in a variety ...

core   +1 more source

What is security worth to consumers? Investigating willingness to pay for secure Internet of Things devices

open access: yesCrime Science, 2020
The Internet of Things (IoT) is considered the next technological revolution. IoT devices include once everyday objects that are now internet connected, such as smart locks and smart fridges, but also new types of devices to include home assistants ...
John M. Blythe   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Series crimes

open access: yesACM Communications in Computer Algebra, 2012
Puiseux series are power series in which the exponents can be fractional and/or negative rational numbers. Several computer algebra systems have one or more built-in or loadable functions for computing truncated Puiseux series. Some are generalized to allow coefficients containing functions of the series variable that are dominated by any power of that
openaire   +3 more sources

Rural Crime and Community Safety [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Crime is often perceived as an urban issue rather than a problem that occurs in rural areas, but how far is this view tenable? This book explores the relationship between crime and community in rural areas and addresses the notion of safety as part of ...
Ceccato, Vania A
core   +1 more source

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