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The nexus of women and ‘Clan Crime’: unravelling the dynamics and constraints
Despite its prominence in public debate, scholars have given little attention to women’s roles in ‘clan crime’ in Germany. This article aims to...
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Measuring the impact of the state of emergency on crime trends in Japan: a panel data analysis
Purpose/BackgroundCity-specific temporal analysis has been commonly used to investigate the impact of COVID-19-related behavioural regulation...
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Organised crime movement across local communities: A network approach
This paper explores the structure of organised crime movement across local communities and the drivers underpinning such movement. Firstly, it builds...
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Racial Inequality in Firearm Homicide Victimization—but not Other Types of US Violence
Research QuestionIs violent crime victimization among US minority groups higher than for White Americans in general, or is there a distinct failure...
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Evaluating the impact of Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) initiative on violence and gun crime in Tampa: does it work and does it last?
Research summaryProject Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) is an increasingly popular violence and gun crime prevention program which aims to identify prolific...
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Do police stations deter crime?
PurposeThe introduction of community policing led to a significant increase in the number of police stations, particularly in urban settings. Police...
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Staggered deployment of gunshot detection technology in Chicago, IL: a matched quasi-experiment of gun violence outcomes
ObjectivesWe examine the potential effects of gunshot detection technology longitudinally in Chicago through a synthetic control quasi-experiment.
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Gangland and Task Force Gain: An Alternative Account of Middle Eastern Crime in Sydney, Australia
According to prominent public commentators in Sydney, Australia, the city’s many diverse Middle Eastern communities possess extraordinary criminal...
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Redlining, Concentrated Disadvantage, and Crime: The Effects of Discriminatory Government Policies on Urban Violent Crime
Redlining and other discriminatory government policies enacted during the first half of the Twentieth Century have had long-lasting negative effects...
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Theorizing State Crime
Today, while they are among the few, there are sociologists and criminologists who have taken the collective actions of the state as their principal...
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Weather and crime: a systematic review of the empirical literature
The weather-crime association has intrigued scholars for more than 150 years. While there is a long-standing history of scholarly interest in the...
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Corpses, diehards and clubs: Ultras and organized crime in Italy
This work will be dealing with the relation between football and organized crime in Italy. It will attempt to critically analyse the relations...
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Ethnic profiling of organised crime? A tendency of mafia-cation in the Netherlands
This article will explore how the current narratives (and corresponding changes) in Dutch organised crime policing relate to ethnic profiling of...
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Places and Crime
Crime is highly concentrated at a relatively few addresses, regardless of the city or neighborhood examined and regardless of the types of place....
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A Comparison of Public and Police Perceptions of the Seriousness of Crime
The seriousness of crime is a key concept in criminal policy. Given the scarcity of empirical assessments, public perceptions of crime seriousness...
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Towards digital organized crime and digital sociology of organized crime
As technology has changed people’s lives, criminal phenomena are also constantly evolving. Today’s digital society is changing the activities of...
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Parental Migration and Fear of Crime Among Left-Behind Children in Rural China
Utilizing a probability sample of 1,985 middle school students from Guizhou Province, China, this study aims to explore the association between...
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Trauma-Informed Responses to Victims of Crime
Little has been written about trauma-informed criminal justice agency responses to victims of crime. This chapter explains why taking a...
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Rethinking organized crime in Africa
Much of the existing research on organized crime in Africa has emphasised its development and proliferation from state and security perspectives....
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Evading Law Enforcement in the Americas: Latin American women in organized crime
This article presents the preliminary results of a qualitative exploratory study conducted between 2021 and 2023. This study was based on in-depth...