Crime trends often vary across different levels of population density. In the United States, for instance, the variance among highly non-metropolitan areas has been shown to be equal to or greater than that among metropolitan areas in terms of crime rates and contextual variables (Wells and Weish...
Sheppard and a youth delivered the two-sided leaflets to homes in the Avenues area of Hull ahead of the European elections. There was reference to the “country being spoiled by millions of immigrants from the Third World” and he suggested that white people, black people, Asian people and J...
Most of these solutions aim at improving individuals' knowledge levels and cognitive skills in identifying misinformation on social media. However, in some situations, the truthfulness of information may be less important than goals such as socializing, self-promoting, and protecting a prior belief. ...
In this section, we use monetary cost estimates of different crime categories to compute the estimated cost of a marginal change in temperature for each neighborhood separately. Specifically, we first allow the heat crime relationship to vary across all the observable characteristics of poverty levels...
(1992). Area characteristics and regional variates as determinants of area property crime levels. J. Quant. Criminol. 8: 265-285.Osborn DR, Trickett A, Elder R (1992) Area characteristics and regional variates as determinants of area property crime levels. J Quant Criminol 8:265–285...
And because of the 1924 Act, my grandparents lost dozens of their siblings, parents, aunts, uncles, nieces, and nephews to the Holocaust in the 1940s because Eastern European Jewish immigration to the US had been cut off. They would have been capable of sponsoring more family to come to ...
23 We also constructed 2 alternative comparison groups of locations with similar levels of serious felony crime reports and drug arrests during the 2 years before the OPCs began operating. We followed the combined checklist in the Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (...
The abrupt rollback is a devastating turn for decriminalization proponents… Several prominent Democrats have expressed support for a rollback, including Mike Schmidt, a progressive prosecutor in the Portland area. …“We have been hearing from constituents for a while that this has been really detri...
between Thailand and Vietnam on the one hand (5.5%) and Tanzania on the other (37%) was surprisingly significant. The data confirm differences documented 25 years ago (Alvazzi Del Frate, 1998) that crime levels for theft, burglary, and sexual offenses are lower in Asia than in sub-Saharan...
In order to evaluate the system’s user experience and user interaction, the Questionnaire of User Interaction Satisfaction and User Experience Questionnaire were utilised. Forty-four young police officers evaluated the system. Police students showed positive levels of satisfaction with user interaction ...