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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Environmental criminology"”.
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Risky Businesses: A Micro-Level Spatiotemporal Analysis of Crime, Place, & Business Establishment Type
<p>Continuing advances in the fields of environmental criminology and geographical information sciences are facilitating place-based research. One of the current trends in environmental criminology is the focus on micro-level `places' including street segments, property lots, and specific kinds of …
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Measuring the Impact of Gun Theft on City-Level Gun Crime Rates
… theft also experience higher rates of gun crime. Environmental criminology suggests that opportunities to acquire guns vary depending on physical and social features of places (Bratingham & Bratingham, 1984; Cohen & Felson, 1979; Meier & Miethe, 1993). Therefore, using environmental criminology as …
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A Spatial Analysis of Homicide and Dangerous Buildings in Kansas City, Missouri
… windows and disorder theory, crime pattern and environmental criminology, and social disorganization and collective efficacy theory all suggest the potentiality of a correlation between the presence of abandoned and dilapidated housing and crime. This thesis investigates the geographical …
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Exploring the Overlap, Saliency, and Consistency of Environmental Predictors in Crime Hot Spots: A Remote Systematic Social Observation and Case-Control Examination
… will simultaneously integrate different types of environmental criminology predictors, including crime generators and attractors and environmental disorder indicators, to best identify the situational predictors of hot spot street segments relative to empirical controls in Indianapolis for several …
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How Central Business Districts Manage Crime and Disorder: A Case Study in the Processes of Place Management in Downtown Cincinnati
… literature by developing a framework, based in environmental criminology, that will enable researchers to examine central business district crime control processes. The central business district of Cincinnati is used as a single-site case study to determine the framework’s ability to identify …
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Place Management in a Correctional Setting
… of place management was first introduced to environmental criminology in 1994, much has been learned about its application and usefulness. Through the study of a wide variety of places, it is now recognized that how a place is managed can affect the type and amount of crime that occurs at …
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Neighbourhood profiling and classification for community safety
… and policy literature on the geography of crime, environmental criminology and community safety policy, and describes the types of task undertaken by community safety analysts. Existing knowledge about the causes and motivations for crime are used to select variables from new national and local …
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Trajetórias de mulheres envolvidas no mercado de drogas
… were addressed, with research based on Critical Criminology, which seeks to explain why poor women, for the most part, make up the female incarceration. Environmental Criminology will also serve as a theoretical framework, especially the Theories of Rational Choice and Routine Activities, through …
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Transit crimes in the Internet age: How new online criminal opportunities affect the organization of offline transit crimes
… concludes by highlighting the possibilities of environmental criminology as a theoretical framework to investigate Internet-mediated transit crimes, offering some final observations on how relevant actors behave online, and suggesting new directions for research.
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Forensic Archaeology and the use of data paradigms in the search for concealed victims of homicide in the Republic of Ireland
… including forensic archaeology, search theory, environmental criminology and criminal spatial analysis. It goes on present the context of homicide and missing persons in Ireland, through a detailed consideration of the relevant literature and available data on homicide in Ireland. …
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Ubiquitous intelligence for smart cities: a public safety approach
… as well as assumptions from theories of environmental criminology. The analysis is augmented using a dual-threshold model, and pattern prevalence information is encoded in similarity graphs. Clusters are identified by finding highly-connected subgraphs using adaptive graph size and …
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Spatial signatures and mental maps: Using offenders’ activity locations to enhance geographic profiling for crime investigations
… for this extension and core tenets of both the environmental criminology and investigative psychology theoretical approaches to geographic profiling. The police data included a wider range of activity locations than used in past crime location choice studies based on administrative data, and the …
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Perceptions of Safety Within the Bridgewater State University Community
… a feeling of safety may include increased environmental elements (i.e. concrete barriers), additional mechanisms (i.e. badging systems), and campus-wide training (i.e. evacuation drills)</p>