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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Crime and Violence"”.
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The influence of poverty on the development and maintenance of conduct disorder and perpetuation of crime and violence
… in the world, as well as a high rate of other crimes. With this study, I examined how factors such as income, socialecological factors of poverty (S-E factors of poverty), and symptoms of conduct disorder (CD) were related to criminality in a sample of 79 male Jamaican parolees and …
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A non-hardened preventative approach to deterring school crime and violence: the significance of threat assessment teams in schools across the United States
Daily incidents of crime and violence occur across all types of schools in the United States each year. While school crime and violence cannot be entirely eliminated, several available safety and security measures provide school districts the opportunities to deter, avert, or reduce such …
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The Crime Victim Movement and United States Public Culture
This dissertation examines the U.S. crime victim movement's media practices within the larger context of public discourse about victimization by crime, violence and disaster from 1964 to the present. This work considers the predilection toward victims' rights approaches to crime and violence within …
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Vanishing Vectors: Trains and Speed in Modern French Crime Fiction and Film (1877--1955)
… this dissertation, I explore how the human body and the train interact as vehicles of modernity, from the forceful criminalization of the train at the end of the 19th century in Emile Zola's La bete humaine to a major advancement in train technology in the mid-20 th century, the electrification …
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Exploring the mentor-mentee relationship through the lens of at-risk teens participating in an afterschool program, ‘The Mentee’s Perspective’
… is a readily used intervention for at-risk youth and because of its prevalence and consensus of being viewed as a positive solution for curtailing high dropout rates, crime and violence it is important to understand how the mentee views and comes to understand the dyadic relationship of mentoring.
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Violence and society in post-apartheid Cape Town
High levels of crime and violence continue to plague South Africa after nearly two decades of peace and democratic rule. While collective violence continues to occur in the form of violent protests and community mob justice, the majority of violent incidents in South Africa are instances of …
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A Comparison Of Character Education Programs And Their Effects On Academic Achievement, Behavior, And Attendance
… existed between character education and the number of incidents of crimes and violence, attendance rates, and academic achievement in Florida public schools. Proponents of character education such as Lickona (1991) and Murphy (1998) posited that there was a positive correlation …
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Living in Nyanga: an exploratory study on resilience among violence-affected male youth from a community in Cape Town
Violence is prevalent in contemporary South Africa and is considered one of the country's primary challenges. There are many reasons for the skyrocketing levels of violence, all of which can be seen at the individual, familial, and societal levels. Not many studies have considered the resilience of …
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A Song of the Bluff: The Phoenix of Pine Bluff Arkansas - Documentary
… with a reputation as a town riddled with crime and violence. Once a thriving agricultural center of the state, Arkansas residents tend to score the town’s successes as relics of the past. Economic decline, negative migration systems like white flight and brain drain, and racial disparities …
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Campus crime : an examination of its relationship to student, institutional and community characteristics /
… facing growing pressure with regard to campus crime. Furthermore, there is a rising public concern about campus safety and security. Hence, institutions are seeking ways to promote safer environments on college campuses so that they can continue to offer quality education, carry out cutting …
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Networks of Solidarity in Prison Writing: Facilitation of Critical Penal Discourse through the Kingston Prison for Women's Tightwire Publication
… 1960’s-1990’s, prisoners in both North America and abroad published interconnected journals through the Penal Press. Under this umbrella of publications, the women sentenced to the Kingston Prison for Women (P4W), the only federal penitentiary for female prisoners from 1934-2000, produced …
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The Anglophone armed conflict: an immediate peril and fear of crime in Bafut
Colonialism brought about some of the worst crimes against humanity in Africa, Cameroon, and Bafut. Cameroon is still implementing some of its strategies and tactics, with rising state crimes leading to the fear of crime in most Anglophone regions, with Bafut as one of the hot spots. Bafut is a …
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Basketball Court Counter-Stories from Youth in Public Housing: A Critical Race Approach
… The community is highly racialized, low income and possesses a lingering, though unwarranted, reputation for crime and violence. The majoritarian or traditional story of the community and its residents perpetuates a negative image, one that often goes unchallenged. The counter-stories produced …
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Policing the Project: Crime, Carcerality, and Chicago Public Housing
… Drawing upon interviews, historical newspapers, and archival records, it centrally argues that policing contributed to making public housing into a carceral space: one that resembled the prison in design and management and also funneled residents into the criminal-legal system. Writing against …
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Military deployment and stress : an empirical survey in the SANDF's operational military personnel of the Western Cape
… of South African National Defence Force (SANDF) military operational personnel to community policing duties of crime and violence in the Western Cape. It is primarily motivated by the fact that, apart from the inherently stressful nature of military deployment, there may be other …
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The Relationship Between School Division Climate and Student Achievement of School Divisions in the Commonwealth of Virginia
Researchers and reformers have suggested that school climate is an important aspect of effective schools (Hoy & Hannum, 1997, p. 290). Literature also suggests that effective schools have a positive school climate (Chrispeels, 1990). The purpose of this study is to determine if the climate of …
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Physical space and its role in the production and reproduction of violence in the "slum wars" in Medellin, Colombia (1970s-2013)
… the spaces of urban informality ("slums"), crime and violence. This occurs in academic circles-as exemplified by the common occurrence that when researchers seek to understand urban crime and violence, they tend to study urban informal spaces (slums, favelas, barriadas, tugurios). However, …
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Crisis Preparedness
… children in the United States attend public and private schools each day. As mass gathering places, schools are prone to mass injury in a natural disaster and unfortunately may serve as a terrorist target (Graham, 2007). Schools must prepare for the worst and hope for the best, because the …
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Stress amongst medical doctors in the Western Cape
… A collection of stressors have presented itself and are seen as the contributing factors that lead to the outflow of doctors to other countries. Masia et al (2010) suggest that heavy workloads, after hour calls, conflicts between work and personal lives, and dealing with life and death situations …
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Understanding the Role of Home Community Environments in Shaping First-Generation Jamaican University Students’ Access and Persistence in Higher Education: Using Liming and Photovoice Methodologies
… second outcome focuses on world-class education and training, the fifth looks at security and safety, and the fifteenth addresses sustainable urban and rural development (Vision 2030, 2018). First-generation Jamaican students represent a fraction of the Vision 2030 discussion around increasing …
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