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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Perceptions of Crime"”.
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Perceptions of crime : a comparative study of Essen, Germany and Malta
This dissertation investigates the perceptions of crime in two contrasting settings: In contrast, Essen which is an industrial metropolitan area and Malta a Mediterranean island state. The study's main purpose is to examine how the urban context (taking into account the different aspects of it) …
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Examining Perceptions of Crime and Disorder in A Rural University Setting
… study responds to the gap in our understanding of perceptions of crime and disorder in younger age groups, and in a rural setting. A survey was administered to collected students’ perception of crime and disorder on campus, of those surveys 655 students responded. A factor analysis using a …
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A 'community criminology' : perceptions of crime and social control amongst Bradford Pakistanis
Despite the undeniable significance of the `race and crime' stream in criminology, knowledge held by minority ethnic groups on these matters is still much overlooked. It is this gap in the literature that this thesis begins to fill, based on both fieldwork and documentary research. The case-study …
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Perceptions of crime changes, well-being, and personal safety during the COVID-19 pandemic
… impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic in terms of their personal safety, well-being, and stress. As such, data was collected in January 2021 and surveyed 258 Ontarians to determine the effects that these factors have had on the public, and the public’s perceptions of crime changes from mid-March …
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Criminal Law and the Collective Conscience: Multidimensional Scaling of Collective Cultural Perceptions of Crime
… in DSpace on 2014-12-14T06:46:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7726715.pdf: 9987207 bytes, checksum: 33ef40b20144b16bdcf2674228915e59 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1977
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Hate: Juror Perceptions of Crime Classification, Attributions of Blame, and Impact of Extra-Legal Factors
… simulation paradigm was employed in this series of studies exploring hate crime. In the first two studies., crime label (i.e., bias-motivated assault ·vs. first degree assault) and victim gender were varied within the context of a sexual orientation motivated (study 1) or gender motivated (study …
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Bidding at the prison auction house: An exchange of prisoners' and university students' perceptions of crime and punishment
During the spring of 2006, a new program was instated at West Virginia University that provided an arena for undergraduate Criminology majors and residents of a correctional facility to discuss and learn about issues within the criminal justice system. The class took place at a correctional …
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Between the Rural and Suburban: The Social, Political, and Economic Dynamics of Policing Forsyth County, GA
<p>This thesis reveals how perceptions of crime produce real outcomes in how Forsyth County is policed by the local sheriff’s office and how the residents come to police themselves and each other. Using historical analysis and ethnographic methods, this thesis explores the county’s racial history …
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Doing Community Safety by Locality Working: Regime Theory and Micro-Climates of Crime and Disorder Co-Governance
The co-governance of crime and disorder and the involvement of the public within quasi-deliberative consultations of participatory forums to this end has been the subject of significant bodies of research (Clarke et al, 2007, Barnes, Newman and Sullivan: 2007). Such forums were applied to the …
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Print Culture and Responses to Crime in Mid-Eighteenth-Century London
The historiography of eighteenth-century crime, justice, and the law is one greatly divided between the study of the administration of the law as a social history of experience and the study of crime literature as a cultural history of representation. We have little sense of the relationship …
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Designing a neighborhood to prevent crime and increase physical activity: a case study among African-American women in Kansas City, Missouri
Obesity levels—related to an increase of physical inactivity—are rapidly rising in the United States (CDC 2010; Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion 2008). Reportedly, African-American women have the highest obesity rates when compared to any other demographic in the United …
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Crime, community and police in Cape Town, 1825-1850
This thesis is primarily an examination of petty crime and law enforcement in Cape Town in the period 1825 -1850. This period was one of fundamental change in terms of the spatial and demographic growth of Cape Town, the diversifying economy and the changing legal status of firstly the Khoi and …
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Investigating Defensible Space and the Criminogenic Capacity of Characteristic British Housing Designs
… thesis investigates the criminogenic capacity of characteristic residential housing designs found in the British city. This exploratory study collected and analysed both qualitative and quantitative data concerning the perceptions of major stakeholders in society (planning professionals, police …
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How does childhood trauma and victimisation contribute to youth homelessness and criminal misconduct? A study of influences on young people’s propensity to offend and the role of professionals in supporting homeless young people into living a crime free life
… as they are a demographic who occupy the margins of the social, economic and civil spheres of English society. It is the misrepresentation of these marginalised youth that has contributed to this ostracism. Therefore, the crux of this study is to gain a thorough insight into the realities of youth …
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Local resident and tourist safety in Cape Town Townships, South Africa
… and food, despite the areas experiencing high crime rates, with South Africa, as a result, having unofficially been labelled the ‘crime capital of the world’. Crimes that are perpetrated against South African tourists and local residents frequently make the news headlines in both the national …