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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Neighborhood Crime"”.
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Examining Spatiotemporal Change in Neighborhood Crime Using Social Disorganization as a Theoretical Framework: A 10-Year Analysis of Homicide in the City of Richmond, VA
… investigates both space and time aspects of neighborhood crime distributions using social disorganization as a theoretical framework in the City of Richmond, VA. Neighborhood crime, in this study, might be considered as any type of index crime aggregated to neighborhood level. For the purpose …
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AN EMPIRICAL TEST OF IMMIGRANT REVITALIZATION: UNVEILING THE CRIME-REDUCING POWER OF IMMIGRANT SOCIAL CAPITAL
The consensus in the immigration-crime literature is that immigration either has a null or an inverse relationship with neighborhood crime (Ousey & Kubrin, 2018). These findings align with the “immigrant revitalization thesis,” which argues that immigration reduces neighborhood crime by producing …
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Neighborhood characteristics and the spatial concentration of crime: Evidence for Bogotá
Using a unique neighborhood crime dataset for Bogotá in 2011, this study uses a spatial econometric approach and examines the role of socioeconomic and agglomeration variables in explaining the variance of crime. It uses two different types of crime, violent crime represented in homicides and …
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Building trust in autonomous systems with an AI framework for privacy, safety, and reliability in data, software, and robotics
… Census Demographics, OpenData 311 Calls, Neighborhood Crime, and LandBank data. As a result, we have achieved high accuracy in recovering missing and invalid data, while successfully preserving overall data distribution and ensuring privacy. For the second objective, our focus shifts to …
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Essays on Place-Based Interventions: The Effects of Neighborhood Investments on Public Safety
… in police and punitive sanctions can reduce crime, but they are costly solutions and can lead to harmful consequences, mainly for historically marginalized communities. The recent protests against police use of force and racism, compounded with the pervasiveness of unfading concentrated …
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Three Essays on Labor and Public Economics
… of survival, and the impact of exposure to neighborhood crime on school absenteeism, respectively.</p> <p>The first chapter studies the labor market effects of a wage subsidy introduced in Colombia's First Job Act. It exploits changes in the labor earnings distribution to measure how the …
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The effect of violence on educational outcomes
… essays that explore the relationship between neighborhood crime and educational attainment. The first essay, entitled ""The Effect of High School Shootings on Schools and Student Performance,"" analyzes how fatal shootings in high schools affect schools and students using data from shooting …
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An exploratory study of neighborhood-level risk factors of perinatal depression and anxiety among Ethiopian perinatal women
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2026-05-01