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Understanding unlikely successes in urban violence reduction
Urban Studies, 2016 The problems of violence in Latin America are often reiterated, yet understanding how and why violence declines is far less common. While urban violence takes different forms and has a range of motivations, we suggest that strengthening political and ...
KRISTIAN Hoelscher, Enzo Nussio
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2023
Urban violence still has a peculiar standing within social and urban research. This book works to unpack the link between urban, violence, and security with three main arguments. The first is that urban violence is under-theorized because long-term theoretical problems with both of its elements (‘urban’ and ‘violence’).
Pavoni, Andrea, Tulumello, Simone
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Urban violence still has a peculiar standing within social and urban research. This book works to unpack the link between urban, violence, and security with three main arguments. The first is that urban violence is under-theorized because long-term theoretical problems with both of its elements (‘urban’ and ‘violence’).
Pavoni, Andrea, Tulumello, Simone
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Injury, 1990
Alcohol consumption and dependence, employment status, social and family history and history of previous violence in 49 patients injured in city-centre violence were compared with that in 49 paired, age and sex matched control individuals in a major accident and emergency department.
J P, Shepherd, L, Robinson, B G, Levers
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Alcohol consumption and dependence, employment status, social and family history and history of previous violence in 49 patients injured in city-centre violence were compared with that in 49 paired, age and sex matched control individuals in a major accident and emergency department.
J P, Shepherd, L, Robinson, B G, Levers
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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 ...
Simon Reid-Henry, Ole Jacob Sending
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Civic communities and urban violence
Social Science Research, 2015Civic communities have a spirit of entrepreneurialism, a locally invested population and an institutional structure fostering civic engagement. Prior research, mainly confined to studying rural communities and fairly large geographic areas, has demonstrated that civic communities have lower rates of violence. The current study analyzes the associations
Jessica M, Doucet, Matthew R, Lee
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Urban Children's Perceptions of Violence
Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 2004To determine how preadolescent urban children conceptualize and experience violence in their lives.This qualitative study reports the results of focus groups designed to examine perceptions of violence among preadolescent urban children. Program directors were trained to conduct the sessions using a semistructured script.
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Urban 'Riots' or Urban Violence in France?
Policing, 2007This article discusses the forms of urban violence which inflamed over 300 sensitive neighbourhoods in France in November 2005, referred to by the media, politicians and researchers as 'riots'.1 This choice of word is not without consequences. The term riots, associated with cities, evokes the racial riots in American cities during the 1960s and those ...
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Crime & Delinquency, 1970
A significant part of the study by the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence was addressed to the problem of violence and the urban crisis. While' this article in cludes a discussion of the emotional aspects of violence, acknowl edging that one root of violence is the "infant" in all of us, a creature of emotion and not of reason,
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A significant part of the study by the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence was addressed to the problem of violence and the urban crisis. While' this article in cludes a discussion of the emotional aspects of violence, acknowl edging that one root of violence is the "infant" in all of us, a creature of emotion and not of reason,
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Urbanization Violence to Nature
2021With the uncontrollable population growth in the cities, the rising need for settlement has increased the needs of the cities, as well as making the cities consumption centres. The housing intensity of urbanization were damaged at first, then the farms and agricultural production areas in the city periphery, and then it directly affected the natural ...
Aslı Güneş Gölbey, Ayşenur Kaylı
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