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Community-Informed Risk Assessment in Intimate Partner Violence and Abuse Cases: Origins, Development, and Deployment
Community-informed risk assessment (CIRA) emerged in Arizona and a number of communities in the United States, in part as a way of addressing some of...
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Not Just a Matter of Inequality. The Extent and Development of Social and Health Problems in Rich Countries
This chapter focuses on the extent and macro-social conditions of social ills in rich countries. It examines eight social and health problems that...
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Estimable intra-age, intra-period, and intra-cohort effects in age-period-cohort multiple classification models
Even if a researcher found a constraint that correctly identified an age-period-cohort multiple classification (APCMC) model, the results would not...
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Local residents’ perceptions of refugees as neighbors: a qualitative analysis of community social networks, purposive guardianship, and feelings of safety
Drawing on semi-structured interviews with 42 residents in a mid-size northeastern United States city, we examine the social networks of refugees and...
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Residential burglary and concentrated disadvantage: A spatial heterogeneity analysis in Mexico City
Previous empirical studies on the correlation between residential burglary and concentrated disadvantage (CD) in Latin America commonly omit the...
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Female Sexual Offending (FSO): The Ripple Effect
Female sexual offending is a growing public health problem because of the negative health outcomes it brings and the reluctance of society to...
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Tracking violence in Thailand: the making of violent crime index
A crime index can be a practical tool that helps countries track violence and crime trends in different areas at different time periods. Develo** a...
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The role of firearms in intimate partner violence: policy and research considerations
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a major threat to women’s safety and well-being worldwide. Firearms heighten this threat by increasing the...
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Juvenile Delinquency
Juvenile delinquency is a serious social problem worldwide in today’s societies and has persisted in the world for many centuries with negative...
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Conclusions
This chapter summarizes the key lessons learned from this work. We conclude that Mary Kaldor’s concept of “New Wars” is useful for understanding the...
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Trend of ritual killings and the involvement of politicians and religious clerics as perpetrators in Ilorin city
The practice of ritual killings has assumed an alarming rate in Ilorin City and continues to pose serious threats to human lives. Many studies have...
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Violence and International Emigration from Mexico: Evidence at a Municipality Level
International Human Rights law considers forced internal and international displacement a human-rights violation. By definition, violence is the...
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Photographing Death to Save Photojournalism: Mafia Homicides in Letizia Battaglia’s ‘Archive of Blood’
Letizia Battaglia is an internationally renowned Sicilian photographer who acquired popularity in the 1980s for her reportage on Palermo’s mafia...
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Conclusion
In summary, this book mainly presents the following findings: (i) at empirical level, differences exist in the time–space distribution of farmers’...
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Life and Death in the American City: Men’s Life Expectancy in 25 Major American Cities From 1990 to 2015
The past several decades have witnessed growing geographic disparities in life expectancy within the United States, yet the mortality experience of...
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Violence Regimes: A Useful Concept for Social Politics, Social Analysis, and Social Theory
This paper critically interrogates the usefulness of the concept of violence regimes for social politics, social analysis, and social theory. In the...
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The Resurgence of Mano Dura in Guatemala
This article is part of a larger study completed on the Northern Triangle of Central America. The study presented here covers the issue of gangs and...
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Madonnas-Whores
The chapter looks at the gendered nature of offending and victimisation by examining the profiles of female victims and offenders and their...
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The Right to Life: Global Evidence on the Role of Security Officers and the Police in Modulating the Effect of Insecurity on Homicide
The study investigates the role of security officers and the police in dampening the effect of insecurity on homicides. Insecurity dynamics are...