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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Crime trends"”.
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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 New Orleans Police Department: Melding Police and Policy to Dramatically Reduce Crime in the City of New Orleans
… murder was cut by over fifty percent and violent crime fell by nearly the same amount; overall crime was cut by over one-third compared to just three years ago. This dissertation seeks to explore the reasons crime declined so rapidly in New Orleans post-COMSTAT implementation, compared to crime in …
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The Geography of Juvenile Crime Place Trajectories
The crime drop of the 1990s has been the subject of a large body of research, which has suggested juvenile crime was the major source of this decline. However, a satisfactory explanation for the crime drop remains elusive. While most of the work has focused on longitudinal studies of the …
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Real time, intelligence-led operations : making collaborative policing work
… recognition and acknowledgement of evolving crime trends. To maintain essential public trust CPS remains attuned to the constant shifting of legal and moral public accountability, an issue highlighted by judicial inquiries that have illustrated a consistent lack of police interagency …
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The relationship between job characteristics, decent work, and well-being in South Africa's private security sector
… with community forums so that they understand crime trends. Future research in the private security sector in South Africa is needed to create awareness of the unfavourable working conditions that many low-level security guards experience and how these can be ameliorated. This would allow …
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"You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive": Using FX's Justified to Form A Cultural Understanding of Crime in Harlan County, Kentucky
… coal miners reached an all-time high, violent crime increased significantly due to strikes and general frustration toward the coal companies. The riots that erupted among law enforcement, mine company security, and strikers led to this area being referred to as ‘Bloody Harlan’. Even though …
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Perceptions of crime changes, well-being, and personal safety during the COVID-19 pandemic
… on the public, and the public’s perceptions of crime changes from mid-March to mid-December 2020 and whether these perceptions were influenced by being an essential worker, gender, age, and minority status. Results found that stress was higher for essential workers during the first nine months …
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Firearm fatalities examined at Salt River Medico-Legal Laboratory in 2009 and their investigative outcome by 2014
… the changes in firearm legislation and reported crime rates, it was decided to conduct a follow - up study one decade later, looking at the investigative outcomes of firearm deaths to see whether the decreased contribution of firearms in homicides and crime made an impact on the investigative and …
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Essays on Election
… first chapter examines whether changes in local crime rates influence voter behavior in partisan judicial elections. Using precinct-level crime and election data from Houston, Texas, this study tests whether a quarterly increase in crime raises the probability that a voting precinct flips from a …