Informal crime control relies on moral and social institutions (e.g., family or church) to promote lawful behavior. This study examined the importance of formal and informal crime control in Nigeria and the United States. Using the data collected from 758 college students, the study found that...
Daniel BirksSpringer International PublishingBirks, D. (2016). Formal models of the crime event: Agent-based modelling in support of crime prevention. In B. Leclerc & E. U. Savona (Eds.), Crime prevention in the 21st century: Insightful approaches for crime prevention initiatives. New York: ...
Informal crime control relies on moral and social institutions (e.g., family, peers, and neighbors) to promote lawful behavior. Using the data collected from 928 college students, the study found that the Indian and U.S. respondents differed on most of the formal and informal control measures...
This can be accomplished by strengthening formal surveillance through enforcing Pakistan’s existing protection laws. Additionally, removing excuses can be carried out by alerting public’s conscience and changing public attitudes about the impacts and circumstances of the illegal use of STL products and...
Indication Of Interest (IoI)- An Indication of Interest (IoI) is the expression of interest in buying a security without entering into a formal agreement. Insider Dealing- Insider Dealing, also known as insider trading, refers to the illegal practice of using non-public, material information unav...
Tarantino cleverly casts himself in a small role as Mr. Brown and names all the men using the same formal title. There is Mr. White (Harvey Keitel), Mr. Orange (Tim Roth), Mr. Blonde (Michael Madsen), Mr. Blue (Edward Bunker), and finally Mr. Pink (Steve Buscemi) who is my favo...
The material was anti-Semitic and racist, with what police described as “despicable references to the Holocaust”. Police said at the time: “You have to remember that there are people in our community who lived through the Holocaust. They don’t deserve to have their experiences treated in...
Thus I am unpersuaded that the death penalty is wrong because it is irreversible. All penalties except strictly monetary ones, repaid with interest, are irreversible. And even those have some costs attached to them (e.g., time lost, shame) that can’t be erased. ...
Andrew Chestnut of Virginia Commonwealth University, the Catholic rites are more formal, whereas Protestant exorcisms are often more theatrical. Protestant exorcists will frequently interview the possessed, to try to determine which demon possesses them (4). Unfortunately, there are dozens of non-...
Spatio-temporal sequential pattern (ST sequential pattern)s→is defined as a sequence of elements, each of which is an event type fromF[9]. Please note that an event typeF∈Fcan occur multiple times in an ST sequential patterns→Footnote3. Before we provide a formal definition of an ST ...