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Showing 1 to 20 of 2411 for “"Crime"”.
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Crime Detection from Pre-crime Video Analysis
This research investigates the detection of pre-crime events, specifically targeting behaviors indicative of shoplifting, through the advanced analysis of CCTV video data. The study introduces an innovative approach that leverages augmented human pose and emotion information within individual …
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Park Amenities and Crime: Do Neighborhood Parks Contribute to Crime?
… parks are often assumed to be associated with crime, but if parks do foster crime, the specific relationships are unclear. Park data were collected for a national and a city sample, recognizing four typical amenities in parks: sports, family, ornamental, and undeveloped. These four variables …
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Crime and disorder
… use of civil and public law orders as tools of crime control by crime prevention partnerships. This development has been little explored in criminology. The proliferation of crime prevention partnerships is viewed by many criminologists as forming part of a bifurcation in criminal policy between …
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Making Crime TV: Producing Fictional Representations of Crime for Canadian Television
… interested in studying media representations of crime in popular culture. They have studied representations using content analyses, often examining their “accuracy” against academic research. Alternatively, these scholars have also studied media effects. In contrast to these studies, I focus on …
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Fear of Crime Through the Ears of a Murderino: The Effect of True Crime Podcasts on Fear of Crime
… was to explore levels and correlates of fear of crime among a sample of individuals who listen to true crime podcasts. An online survey was used to gauge respondents' levels of fear of crime before and after listening to a true crime audio podcast entitled <em>My Favorite Murder</em>. The survey …
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Three Essays on Crime
… the tools of economics to analyze two forms of crime --- property and violent crime --- in order to investigate three specific incentives that induce them. First, I develop a property crime model with secondary markets for stolen durable goods where agents can be thieves who steal durable goods …
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Framing in crime news
… races as perpetrators or victims. Three weeks of crime news programming were surveyed. The races of perpetrators and victims were identified and coded. Those findings were then compared to 2014 crime statistics obtained from the Philadelphia Police Department. It was hypothesized that (a) Blacks …
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CRIME, CRIMINALITY & SOCIAL REVOLUTION
… study discusses Fresco work and the subject of ‘crime’. Finally, the usefulness of Fresco’s work is scrutinised.
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Crime, criminality, and gangs
… the relationships between gang membership, crime, and criminality. It begins by introducing the distinction between crime and criminality, and analyzing criminological theory using this distinction. Next, it describes how these same theories view the role of social institutions like family, …
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Retribution, Reciprocity, and Crime
… of the most unlikely explanatory mechanisms of crime: cooperation. Humans are unique cooperators: we exchange resources and help one another in a time of need. The tendencies central to understanding the mechanics of cooperation and most useful in explaining crime are retribution and reciprocity …
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Using Text Mining to Identify Crime Patterns from Arabic Crime News Report Corpus
… English language, such as politics, medicine and crime. In contrast, although Arabic is a widely spoken language, few mining tools have been developed to process Arabic text, and some Arabic domains have not been studied at all. In fact, Arabic is a language with a very complex morphology because …
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Transnational Organized Crime and Destabilization in Democracies, Russian Organized Crime as Case Study
Transnational organized crime has been prevalent during the last century, but it recently has been recognized as a threat to the world order. Governments throughout the world, along with the intergovernmental organizations identified this phenomenon as a new threat to domestic and international …
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Return to the scene of the crime: The returnee detective and postcolonial crime fiction
This thesis investigates the ways in which the crime novel genre has been taken up and adapted in order to depict and grapple with ideas of justice in selected postcolonial contexts. It approaches this investigation through the figure of the 'returnee detective' in these texts and determines how …
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Australian attitudes towards computer crime
… from questionnaire responses, that computer crimes are considered to be insignificant compared with other crimes which have far less impact on society in financial terms. Hacking, in particular, which costs Australian society an increasing amount each year, was ranked at a very low level of …
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Fear of crime in Ulundi
Fear of crime has become a much documented crime related problem. It can lead to avoidance behaviour, for example when normal social activities are curtailed and certain areas are avoided. Lewis and Salem (1986:3) conclude that "fear of crime [has become] as much of a social problem as the crime …
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The Origins of Organized Crime
… transitions and the increase of organized crime. This correlation exists despite the differences in political system prior to the democratic transition. What matters the most is that these transitions either occur at the same time or within a short window of time. Organized criminal groups …
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Essays on Crime and Law
<p>This dissertation examines the interplay between law, policy, and decision-making within criminal justice and employment.</p> <p>The first chapter investigates the interplay between predictive algorithms and human discretion in parole decision-making. It examines how deviations from algorithmic …
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Essays on Crime and Law
… law and public policy often are related to crime in complex and interesting ways. The following dissertation explores the intersections of divorce law and public policy with criminal outcomes. Within my first chapter, we attempt to identify the causal effect of wages on a prosecutor’s effort …
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