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Identity, experience, and threat: Assessing key correlates of firearm ownership and related behaviors in a representative sample of five US States

open access: yesPreventive Medicine Reports, 2023
The purpose of this study was to examine psychosocial, experiential, and demographic correlates of firearm ownership, carrying, and storage methods.
Daniel C. Semenza   +3 more
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Theorising MSMEs in Contexts of Urban Violence

open access: yes, 2021
What are the relationships between and among small businesses, conflict, and peaceful development in contexts of urban violence? Here, the complex formal and informal divisions of economic, political and social power, authority, and legitimacy – and the ...
B. Ganson, K. Hoelscher
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Art and Science of Urban Gun Violence Reduction: Evidence from the Advance Peace Program in Sacramento, California

open access: yesUrban Science, 2022
Urban gun violence is a critical human health and social justice issue. Strategies to reduce urban gun violence are increasingly being taken out of the domain of police and into community-based programs.
Jason Corburn   +2 more
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Urban Resources and Their Linkage to Political Agendas for Armed Groups in Cities

open access: yesJournal of Illicit Economies and Development, 2021
Rapid urbanisation in countries undergoing or recovering from armed conflict has imposed severe strain on public services and governance. It has also been accompanied by increasing policy and academic concern about the vulnerability of cities to armed ...
Antônio Sampaio
doaj   +1 more source

Examining the Effects of Drug-Related Killings on Philippine Conditional Cash Transfer Beneficiaries in Metro Manila, 2016–2017

open access: yesJournal of Illicit Economies and Development, 2021
Is the Philippine War on Drugs a ‘War on the Poor’? Focusing on beneficiaries of the Philippine Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) or Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program as the most legible cohort of poor, we examine the effects of the anti-narcotics ...
Maria Karla Abigail Pangilinan   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Intimate infrastructures: The rubrics of gendered safety and urban violence in Kerala, India

open access: yesGeoforum, 2020
Urban infrastructures can enable and embody multiple forms of violence against women; from the spectacular and immediate, to the slow, everyday and intimate.
Ayona Datta, N. Ahmed
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Evaluation of a Cape Town Safety Intervention as a Model for Good Practice: A Partnership between Researchers, Community and Implementing Agency

open access: yesStability : International Journal of Security and Development, 2015
VPUU has a wealth of experience to share and is engaged with broader national and international policymakers and implementing agencies. Researchers are grappling with the difficulty of providing a rigorous project evaluation for these collaborations ...
Tali Cassidy   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Urban Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) in transnational perspective: reflections from Brazilian women in London

open access: yesIDPR. International Development Planning Review, 2020
This article explores the nature of urban Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) among Brazilian migrants in London from a transnational perspective.
C. McIlwaine, Yara Evans
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Comparative Analysis of the Relationship between Poverty and Urban Violence Using the Vikor Model (Case Study: Yazd Neighborhoods) [PDF]

open access: yesجغرافیای اجتماعی شهری, 2017
The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between poverty and the spread of various types of urban violence in the neighborhoods of the city of Yazd. According to the objectives of the research, it is a practical research and its method is
Jamal Mohamadi, Ali Bagheri Kashkooli
doaj   +1 more source

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