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Mathematical modeling and analysis of the influence of family background on the spread of crime
Crimes are social ills that make a society unsafe to live in. Since a child is born into a family and a society is made up of different families, we...
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Beating crime or marking time? Crime research and crime policy: a personal view of the UK government’s approach
Scrutiny of the UK Government’s 2021 crime policy statement ‘Beating Crime’ shows its presentation of crime trends to be disingenuous and arguably...
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Time in Crime: An Added Dimension to the Study of Crime Guns
A growing body of literature has explored the ‘life course’ of crime guns, with particular focus on the time between initial point of sale of...
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Importance of categories of crime for predicting future violent crime among handgun purchasers in California
BackgroundProhibiting the purchase and possession of firearms by those at risk of violence is an established approach to preventing firearm violence....
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Modeling Crime Transmission with Fear Effect: A Fractional-Order Approach for Effective Crime Control Strategies
Crime poses a formidable global challenge, prompting extensive research that has proposed multiple mathematical models employing ordinary...
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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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Development of a Legal Service Needs and Barriers Measure for Victims of Family Violence and Other Crime
Researchers and communities lack quantitative measures of legal needs and barriers faced by victims of family violence and other crimes. Such...
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Social Change, Cohort Effects, and Dynamics of the Age–Crime Relationship: Age and Crime in South Korea from 1967 to 2011
ObjectiveThe goal of this study is to examine how the age-crime distribution in South Korea has shifted over time and the role of cohorts in driving...
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Incarceration and Intergenerational Family Relations in Organized Crime
Studies demonstrate that the family members’ criminal behaviour is one of the best predictors of involvement in criminal activity by younger people....
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Repeat victimisation and the crime drop: evidence from Japan
It is well-established that some people and places are repeat victims of crime. It is equally well-established that crime in many countries has...
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The minimum wage and cross-community crime disparities
This study examines the heterogeneous impacts of minimum wages, which could affect low-income workers’ earnings and employment opportunities, on...
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Crime, Character, and the Evolution of the Penal Message
Scholars depict punishment as a moral dialogue between the community and the offender, which addresses both the offender’s crime and character....
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The Impact of COVID-19 on Crime: a Systematic Review
COVID-19 caused a great burden on the healthcare system and led to lockdown measures across the globe. These measures are likely to influence crime...
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Son preference and crime in India
Using an Instrumental Variable strategy, we find a positive causal relation between son preference, proxied by child sex ratio, and crime in India; a...
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Crime, environments, service characteristics, and transit ridership: a multilevel analysis
Although crime is well recognized as a factor detrimental to ridership, fewer empirical studies have tested the effect of crime on ridership and...
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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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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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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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Organized crime involvement in antiquities looting in Italy
Tombaroli (the Italian name for looters of archaeological heritage) have criminally preyed on Italy’s ancient tombs for centuries. Criminological...
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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...