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Causes of Death in India: A Detailed Analysis of External Causes of Deaths
This chapter provided a broader picture of the causes of death (COD) among adults in India during 2001–03 and 2015–17. In addition, this chapter...
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The impact of population and economic decline: examining socio-demographic correlates of homicide in Detroit
This study examined the relationship between neighborhood social ecology and homicide in Detroit, Michigan. Additionally, the research examined the...
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Road Transport Act 2018 in Bangladesh: a critique of the transport workers’ liability for driving offences occasioning deaths in light of their equivalents in NSW-Australia
Road safety laws play a vital role in the system of enhancing road safety outcomes. Ineffective and outdated laws do not provide the essential...
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The So-called Failure of the State: Rethinking the State, Civil Society, and Criminal Organizations
In the field of international relations, we tend to apply the premises of political realism to our understanding of transnational criminal...
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Public support for gunshot detection technology
Firearm violence has led many U.S. cities to invest in gunshot detection technology (GDT). Research on GDT remains limited and focuses mainly on...
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The “new” crimes of pandemics: observations and insights from Latin America
We study the emergence of new forms of law violations in Latin America during the coronavirus pandemic. Based on data from online news articles, we...
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Welfare Regimes and Their Povertization and Inequality Outcomes
This chapter outlines and explains the key dimensions (and concepts) of this newly-designed welfare regime analysis. These are the newly devised...
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Why did Mexico become a violent country?
While most countries have experienced a crime drop in the last few decades, Mexico experienced a dramatic increase in violent crime since the...
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Can we Trust Crime Predictors and Crime Categories? Expansions on the Potential Problem of Generalization
City-driven open data initiatives have made spatially referenced crime and risk factor data more readily available online, allowing for significance...
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Social and Economic Convergence Across Brazilian States Between 1990 and 2010
The present paper analyzes the convergence in economic and social terms across Brazilian states from 1990 to 2010. We argue that a more ample...
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Gendering Familicide
This chapter draws on the framework for gender-based violence outlined in the previous chapter to propose familicide as a form of gender-based...
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Urbicide. The Liturgical Murder of the City
UrbicideUrbicide is a new analytical category that allows us to understand urban processes from the opposite angle to the one that has been...
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Migration as a Collective Project in the Global South: A Case Study from the Ethiopia–South Africa Corridor
This chapter critiques the individualist thrust in migration studies and the assumed “autonomous agency” of prospective migrants, especially in the...
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Forensic Reporting and the ‘Mystery’ of Familicide
This chapter explores how the representation of familicide cases in which there was no known preceding history of violence or abuse by perpetrators...
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The Virtue and Limits of Gereb as an Aboriginal Conflict Reconciliation Device Among the Wejerat People: the Case of Hintalo-Wejerat Wereda Southeastern Tigray
The study scrutinizes the virtue and limits of the Gereb aboriginal conflict reconciliation device among Wejerat people of Hintalo-Wejerat,...
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Measuring Informal Social Control in Child Maltreatment: From “Whether” to “How,” from One-Off to Sustained, from Individual to Community
This chapter examines the rationale for the development of the informal social control of child maltreatment scale. It examines the strengths of the...
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Rio de Janeiro: The Trajectory of the Wonderful City, Violence, and Urban Disenchantment
The cityCities of Rio de Janeiro is a national and international reference perceived through the concept of “capitality,” inspired by Argan in...
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A Clinical Analysis of Intimate Partner Violence During COVID-19 in Jamaica
This chapter examines the psychological antecedents of intimate partner violence (IPV) in Jamaica, through selected local cases reported in the print...
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Crime drop in Ghana? Some insights from crime patterns and trends
This study examines crime rate trends in Ghana in the context of research into the international crime drop. Ghanaian police-recorded crime data are...
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Complex Connections: Mental Illness/Distress and Familicide
This chapter addresses the often-asked question: What about mental illness? Surely perpetrators of familicide must have been driven by a deep sense...