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Addictive Behaviors Reports, 2018 Objective: To investigate the association of alcohol and cocaine use with urban violence (both as victim and as perpetrator) in a representative sample of the Brazilian population.
Renata Rigacci Abdalla +5 more
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The “humanitarianization” of urban violence [PDF]
Environment and Urbanization, 2014 This paper describes how international humanitarian organizations (IHOs) are adapting their operations to working in the urban environment. When levels of armed violence in urban areas are sufficient to trigger international humanitarian law, organizations such as the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) may argue that they have an ...
Ole Jacob Sending
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Geographica Helvetica, 2004 Urban violence has become an endemic feature of cities in all parts of the world. The consensus is that levels of violence are increasing generally but that there are significant differences between different parts of the world.
D. Herbert
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The enduring impact of historical and structural racism on urban violence in Philadelphia. [PDF]
Soc Sci Med, 2018 Public health approaches to crime and injury prevention are increasingly focused on the physical places and environments where violence is concentrated.
Jacoby SF +4 more
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Reducing Urban Violence: A Contrast of Public Health and Criminal Justice Approaches. [PDF]
Epidemiology, 2018 Background: Cities are investing millions in Cure Violence, a public health approach to reduce urban violence by targeting at-risk youth and redirecting conflict to nonviolent responses.
Cerdá M, Tracy M, Keyes KM.
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Urban violence beyond urban violence
Dialogues in Urban ResearchIn this short essay, we respond to the insightful comments to our Urban Violence: Security, Imaginary, Atmosphere by Drongiti, Tedeschi, Silva and Fauveaud. We reflect with the extent to which our book has managed to dwell in and care for the paradoxes of urban violence.
Andrea Pavoni, Simone Tulumello
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City, Nation, Network: Shifting Territorialities of Sovereignty and Urban Violence in Latin America
Urban Planning, 2020 Cities across the global south are seeing unprecedented levels of violence that generate intense risks and vulnerability. Such problems are often experienced most viscerally among poorer residents, thus reinforcing longstanding socio-spatial conditions ...
Diane Davis
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Urban violence as a predictor factor of obesity: longitudinal evidence from Sao Paulo, Brazil [PDF]
BMC Public HealthBackground Violence and obesity are global public health challenges that impose significant health burdens. However, the prospective association between urban violence and obesity remains insufficiently understood, especially in low- and middle-income ...
Bianca Mitie Onita +5 more
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Urban violence is the biggest cause of fatal work-related accidents in Brazil. [PDF]
Rev Saude Publica, 2017 OBJECTIVE To quantify the occurrence of deaths directly associated with urban violence among fatal work-related accidents. METHODS Verbal autopsies were performed with the relatives and coworkers of residents of Campinas, state of São Paulo, Brazil, who ...
Cordeiro R +4 more
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Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry, 2014 Objective: To quantitatively study the exposure to childhood maltreatment and urban violence in children from families with at least one child working on the streets and to investigate the relationship between these factors and street work.
Andrea F. Mello +12 more
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