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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Aggravated Assault"”.
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Crime in New Orleans: applying the civic community perspective to urban violence
… and violent crime, particularly homicide and aggravated assault, is determined using secondary data geocoded to census tracts in Orleans Parish, Louisiana. Data are gathered from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, the Zip Code Business Patterns, and the New Orleans Police …
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The Incarcerated Female Offenders: A Study of Inmates of Julia Tutwiler Prison.
… serious crimes such as homicide, robbery, and aggravated assault. 
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A Quantitative Analysis of Crime Rates in American Colleges and Universities With and Without Residential College Systems.
… and those without such systems for the on-campus aggravated assault offenses and the on campus residence halls aggravated assault offenses. Findings showed fewer aggravated assaults in the group of institutions with residential college systems. A 3rd statistically significant difference was found …
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Do the Views of the Prosecutor's Offices Have an Impact on Whether Intimate Partner Violence Cases Go To Trial?
… 589,000 nonfatal violent victimizations (e.g., aggravated assault, simple assault) committed by an intimate partner (US Dept. of Justice, 2003). Of that, roughly 85% of these violent victimizations were committed against females (US Dept. of Justice, 2003). Even with this large amount of …
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Spatial Distributions of Domestic and Non-Domestic Violence by Firearm Involvement
… Data on murder, non-negligent manslaughter, and aggravated assault incidents reported to Austin Police Department in the city of Austin, Texas, throughout 2020 and 2021 (n = 5,727) were used for the study. Kernel density estimation maps were produced for each of the relevant subgroups, and …
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The Disobedient Prisoner: A Racial Comparison of the Level of Punishment Prescribed to Inmates for Rule Violations
… only inmates who had committed armed robbery, aggravated assault, or murder were in the sample. After the modification of the variables comprised of race, rule violations, and punishment type, the sample size was 652. First, an OLS regression was used in three models, which showed that major …
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Devaluation and Solvability: The Quest for Factors Affecting Violent Crime Clearance
… victim noncooperation. The results showed that aggravated assaults against non-White victims are less likely to result in an arrest than those involving White victims, but also that this finding could be because non-White aggravated assault victims are less likely to cooperate with police than …
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Serious, violent, and chronic juvenile offenders: a systems approach
… violent Index crimes (for example, robbery, aggravated assault), serious property offenses (for example, burglary, motor vehicle theft), weapons offenses (for example, carrying a handgun, shooting a gun at someone), drug dealing offenses (for example, selling marijuana, cocaine), and drug …
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The Effects of Gender on Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol Sentencing Disaprities in Pennsylvania
… female were to commit them. These crimes include aggravated assault, burglary, and homicide. Driving under the influence of alcohol was chosen to study here because in instances of DUI, individuals are initially apprehended due to perceived behaviors behind the wheel, and officers are unaware if …
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Three Essays on Economics of Risky Behavior
… in all measures of violence, such as simple and aggravated assault, relative to their respective average observed in the data. This finding provides valuable insights into the ongoing policy debate regarding government censorship and monitoring of online behavior, suggesting that reducing access …
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The Economics of Crime: Exploring the Impact of Psychedelics, Gun Liability Insurance, and Zero-Bail Policies on Crime
… implemented in January 2023, on firearm-related assaults using the Augmented Synthetic Control Method (ASCM). San Jose is the first U.S. jurisdiction to mandate liability insurance for gun owners. Using city-level monthly panel data from the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) database and the …