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Assessing Refugee Accommodation: From Broken Windows Index to Heterotopic Spaces
This chapter presents an empirical approach for the assessment of the structural quality (i.e., the physical structure) of refugee accommodation...
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A review of crime prevention activities in a Japanese local government area since 2008: Beautiful Windows Movement in Adachi Ward
There have been limited reports on crime prevention policies by local governments in Japan, which is one of the safest countries in the world. This...
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Crime Against the Elderly in Later Life: The Broken Window Approach
The victimization of elderly is a concerning social issue for the Indian society in contemporary time. Today, elderly persons are being targeted by...
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Fear of vacant houses: analyzing perceptions on housing abandonment in shrinking inner-city neighborhoods
Vacant houses have been regarded, in terms of the broken windows theory, as one of the signs of neighborhood disorder inducing prevalent violent...
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Paradigm or Practice? Situating GIS in Contemporary Archaeological Method and Theory
Geographic information systems (GIS) has been used in archaeology for four decades, and colloquially appears to have become a main tool in the...
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The Broken Promise of Institutional Psychiatry: Sexuality, Women and Mental Illness in 1950s Lebanon
This article traces the case of Hala, a woman chronic patient of the Lebanon Hospital for Mental and Nervous Disorders (LHMND) in late 1950s Lebanon....
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Retrofit design for preventing theft on the university campus
No other crime affects more students, faculty, and staff on the university campus than theft. While it is common for campus officials and community...
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Mortality Modeling of Partially Observed Cohorts Using Administrative Death Records
New advances in data linkage provide mortality researchers with access to administrative datasets with millions of mortality records and rich...
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Life Practice Production: Theory
Personal practices relevant to life quality are public engagement and informational activity. Public engagement comprises appealing, strike...
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Ordinary Art
The Oscar Wilde Theatre was built during the competition over the most eminent playwrights in Europe. It had been a pleasant building, but the...
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Criminal incidences in relation to built environment in Arba Minch City, Southern Ethiopian
The global impact of urbanization has reached half the world’s population by influencing the physical structure and security of the cities. Castelli...
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Luxury and Scarcity: Exploring Anachronisms in the Market for Transformative Repair
Repair is a response to conservation in conditions of scarcity but can fail to sufficiently address problems of waste and consumption in conditions...
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Linking Up Bell Beakers in the Iberian Peninsula
Many studies in complexity theory employ agent-based models whose interactions can be expressed as networks. In such models, the pattern of...
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Conservation of Cave-dwelling Village using Cultural Landscape Gene Theory
Located in the northern part of the Loess Plateau, Wudinghe river basin is part of the Longshan culture and is a transitional zone from the northern...
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The Layered Space: Permutations of the Portico
The portico is the essence of tropical form and represents the quintessential architectural character of the South East Asian tropics. The variations...
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Complex Town-Gown Relationships and the Paradoxes of Studentification in the South African Traditional Authority Lands
The University of Zululand is one of the South African institutions founded on racial and ethnic segregation and intended to consolidate the creation...
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Sociological Aesthetics, or How to Make Sense of Symbolic Forms
This articles questions some of the basic assumptions of sociological aesthetics. Taking the “linguistic turn” with Susanne Langer, it assumes...
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Materializations of Changing Western Patriarchal Beliefs About Children, Childhood and Parenting; Socialization Practices and Diverse Children’s Social Agency
Feminist theories and research on historical changes in Euro-American patriarchy provide new understandings, insights and interpretations about...
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What Remains
Irawati Karve (1905–1970) is one of India’s most famous anthropologists. Lesser known in India today is that Karve was trained in a racial...