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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"Crime rate"”.
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Economic Analyses of Crime in England and Wales
… empirical studies detecting the determinants of crime in England and Wales. We firstly apply time series analyses to look for cointegrating relationships between property crimes and unemployment as well as law enforcement instruments. We extend our study by employing panel data and corresponding …
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Detroit Crime Trends: Examining Large Business Labor Practices
… twenty-five large businesses in Detroit and the crime rate from 2012 to 2014. Previous research has asserted that a significant correlation exists between unemployment and crime but does not investigate the effects of large company employment in a city in relation to crime. This study seeks to …
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The intersection of community and domestic conflict
… within the context of disadvantaged, high-crime rate neighborhoods. Further, no studies examine the nature of this intersection with a socio-cultural lens, providing a more contextual view of how these forms of violence overlap. To address these shortcomings, we conducted a descriptive and …
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Development of a Composite Model of Quality of Life: A Case Study in Austin, Texas
… to factors examined by previous researchers, crime rate and commute time are included to better understand their effect on QOL. Economic and social variables, including crime rate and commute time, were derived from the U.S. Census and the Austin Police Department. The environmental quality …
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“They’re bringing Drugs... They’re bringing Crime... They’re Rapists”: Exploring Latino Immigration, Crime, and Voting Patterns in the 2016 Presidential Election
… Latino immigrants. Using census data from 2015, rates of immigration and rates of violent crime were compared against 2016 election results, all at the county-level. The goal was to assess whether county-level rates of violent crime or the county-level rates of Latino immigrants were correlated …
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The economics of crime prevention policy : with particular reference to various crime categories in South Africa
… is the instrument used by Government to control crime because it is generally believed that this is more efficient in preventing crime than other types of public expenditure. In this thesis the relative importance of law enforcement, economic and socio-economic variables in determining South …
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Distinct outside forces influencing firm outcomes: Social media and city crime
… forces – social media engagement and city crime. Building on the concept of “online firestorms” that tweets can entice, I investigate a set of tweets sent by the S&P500 firms and their CEOs that the Twitterverse considers controversial. Consistent with social media’s cancel culture, I find …
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Division of labor, anomie, and crime rates: a test of a Durkheimian model
Two models of a Durkheimian explanation of crime rates were subjected to empirical test. One is the static model which posits that in a more complex society the crime rate ought to be higher. This proposition is based on the assumption that in more complex or organic societies the probability of …
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Read, write, develop: The social and economic impact of literacy in South Africa
… illiteracy drove the global illiteracy rate down from 40% in 1970 to 25% in 1990. Initiatives to promote universal literacy began as far back as the early 1950s yet the latest available data on literacy from UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) indicates that 750 million adults in the …
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Presentence detention in U.S. District Courts: the effects of race/ethnicity, gender, and social context
… This study employs a multilevel modeling strategy and uses criminal sentencing data (N=130,120) from the U.S. Sentencing Commission (USSC) for fiscal years 2008 to 2010, across 89 U.S. District Courts, including supplemental data drawn from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Federal Judicial …
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Recent discourses on vigilantism within South Africa
… violence against the perception of a high crime rate in the country and a criminal justice system which is failing the public. At the same time, the South African Police Service has positioned itself as taking measures to combat the high level of crime which has been blamed for this …
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The German code of crimes against international law in context of international criminal law: can its penalty system serve as model for the international criminal court?
… adopted a high significance in international crime. Never has the international crime rate been as high as nowadays and there is anything but an end in sight. Thus, the need for international criminal prosecution increases. The establishment of ad hoc tribunals as an answer to the commited …
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Mesh network model for urban area
Decreasing population, high crime rate, and limited economic opportunities are all symptoms of urban decline. These characteristics are, unfortunately, evident in major cities and small towns. Local municipalities in these cities and towns with the aid of state and federal government have attempted …
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Smart door lock based on bluetooth and IoT
… been a major issue because of the increase in crime rate and everybody wants to take proper action to prevent unauthorized users. There was a necessity to automate home so that user can take advantage of the IoT technology as well. Therefore, this project is to develop a prototype of a door …
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The effect of social service agencies on crime rates in Kansas City, Missouri
… of social disorganization and subculture on crime in Kansas City, Missouri. Variables from social disorganization and subculture theory are combined in order to spatially and statistically examine the variation in the crime rates across the Kansas City area, and if these changes correlate …
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Student perceptions of Campus Safety in Northern New Jersey Colleges: Recommendations for Campus Police Leadership
… of colleges and universities where the crime rate has steadily increased over the last twenty-five years (Griffith, Hueston, Wilson, Moyers, & Hart, 2004). The purpose and aim of this quantitative survey study was to examine student perceptions of campus safety at two private colleges in …
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Actual Versus Perceived Risk of Victimization and Handgun Ownership
… and recent empirical research was scarce. Crime rates and respondents' social characteristics were used as proxy measures for victimization risk, while fear of crime measured perceived risk of victimization. Three sets of models were estimated, the first with a pooled sample of men and …
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Factors that Influence Mobile Bully-victim Behaviour on Mobile Social Networks: The Case of Facebook
… occurring in communities where there is a high crime rate. These two provinces fall under four provinces including Limpopo and Free State that are leading in high crime rate in South Africa. Due to unavailability to participate from other provinces, only Western Cape and Gauteng public schools …
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An Exploratory Study of Crime Among High School Learners in Nzhelele East Circuit, Vhembe District, Limpopo Province
High school crime has become a major problem all over the world including South Africa. The aim of this study was to explore the nature, causes and effects of youth crime amongst learners in high schools in Nzhelele East Circuit. Three high schools known for high crime rate were purposefully …
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Elite Deviance, Organized Crime, and Homicide: A Cross-National Quantitative Analysis
… by the upper echelons of society, and organized crime threaten development and the rights and security of people across and within nations; however empirical research on these topics is limited, especially in the field of criminology. This study addresses this gap in the literature by testing …
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