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American Policy on Abuse, Neglect, and Crimes Against Elder Adults
The aging of the population will likely increase the incidence of elder mistreatment. Intergenerational abuse could be from overburdened caregivers...
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The Sense in Senseless Violence: Male Reproductive Strategy and the Modern Sexual Marketplace as Contributors to Violent Extremism
ObjectivesMass shooters, violent extremists, and terrorists, who are overwhelmingly male, exhibit misogynistic attitudes and a history of violence...
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Fight or flight? Intended behavior in a school shooting among students who support or oppose concealed campus carry
Colleges across the country have considered or permitted policies that allow students to carry weapons on campus. While scholarship has examined...
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Fatal Child Abuse
While uncommon, fatal child abuse is a tragic outcome for victims and their families. Approximately 2/100,000 children succumb to child abuse...
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Does Refugee Inflow Increase Crime Rates in the United States?
Although refugee resettlement remains a controversial issue, no attempt has yet been made to investigate the relationship between refugee inflow and...
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The Social Determinants of Health and Illness
Health professionals now realize that contemporary health problems have their roots in social conditions rather than being a function of biological...
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Greenness and Crime in the City: An Investigation Using Remote Sensing and Spatial Panel Models
Evidence has suggested that healthy environmental greenness is associated with lower rates of crime. The goal of this study was to explore this...
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Domestic Violence Survivors and the Intermediate Appellate Courts
Beginning in the 1970s, the “legalization” of domestic violence prevention was aimed at increasing the availability and severity of legal responses...
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Establishing an inverted U-shaped pattern of violence and war from prehistory to modernity: towards an interdisciplinary synthesis
How have broad patterns of violence and war changed from the dawn of humanity up to present time? In answering this question, researchers have...
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‘Knowing How to Walk’: Risk, Violence and Practices of Endurance in Urban Brazil
Violence has encroached on the city of Recife for decades and infused everyday life. This chapter explores practices of endurance under conditions...
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A Spatial Analysis of Homicides in Saint Louis: The Importance of Scale
The current study examines the social, racial, and economic determinants of homicide rates in the City of St. Louis using census tracts and 1000-m...
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As Foes and Allies Rise, America’s Downward Spiral Accelerates
Across fundamental dimensions of societal wellbeing, and despite many Americans’ strong belief in U.S. exceptionalism, America is regrettably falling...
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Introduction
This chapter introduces this book as an interdisciplinary edited collection that explores the transformative impact of drones on visual aesthetics...
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Bounding Analyses of Age-Period-Cohort Effects
For more than a century, researchers from a wide range of disciplines have sought to estimate the unique contributions of age, period, and cohort...
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Are the Paths to Victim-Blaming Paved with Hostile Sexism, Honor System Justification, and Fragile Masculinity? Evidence from Men in Turkey
Victim-blaming is a source of deep concern for survivors of violence since it is linked to feelings of shame, guilt, and embarrassment, as well as...
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Assessing Initiatives Taken to Safeguard and Support Victims of Sexual Abuse in Dowa District: A Case Study of the Spotlight Initiative Under the Girls Empowerment Network (GENET)
In Malawi, sexual abuse disproportionately affects girls and young women, emphasizing the need for effective interventions to safeguard their...
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Farmer Suicide in a Tight-Knit Society
A tight-knit society described in this book is one that features a high degree of kinship bonds and of regulatory control. From the perspective of...
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The Covid-19 Pandemic and “Rising Deaths of Despair” in the United States
Rising rates of age-specific mortality fatal drug overdoses, suicides, and poisonings and accidents involving alcohol in the United States,...
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The ability of place-based risk factors to predict hate crime
Hate crime has exhibited an alarming increase in many cities over the past few years. As a nation, the United States recorded 7759 in 2020, the...
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Firearms, Domestic Violence, and Dating Violence: Abusers’ Use of Firearms Violence to Exert Coercive Control and Commit Intimate Partner Homicides
Domestic/dating violence and firearms can be a lethal combination. Many hundreds of women are murdered annually by current or former male intimate...