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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Property crimes"”.
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Social disorganization theory and crime rates on California community college campuses
… 2011 Clery report was separated into personal crimes and property crimes as reported by the California community college campuses. Correlation analysis was used for the non-categorical social structure and community organization factors. Those factors which demonstrated a statistical …
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Economic Analyses of Crime in England and Wales
… 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 techniques to control for area-specific fixed effects as well as the endogeneity of law enforcement variables. In …
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A Developmental Perspective: Early Childhood Externalizing Behaviors Pathway to Delinquency in Adolescence
… delinquency types (i.e., violent offenses, property offenses, illicit drug use, licit drug use, and minor offenses), in addition to overall delinquency. Study data came from two waves of the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth-1979 (CNLSY-79; N = 855, 52.4% male, 24.1% …
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Mental health courts reduce crime rates.
… health courts on crime rates for violent and property crimes. Mental health courts are intended to help offenders with mental illnesses treat their illnesses and get them on the right track so they can be law abiding citizens. Uniform Crime Reporting county-level data and Substance Abuse and …
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Essays on the Externalities of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act of India
… effects of the program on various violent and property crimes. I also create a district level panel of annual rainfall and investigate the relationship between rainfall, crime, and the MGNREGA program. In the second study, I use a micro level sample survey called the District Level Household …
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Essays on the economics of crime
… that increase in unemployment causes more property crimes. The fourth chapter presents evidence for the existence of a negative externality of crime. Countries that have higher crime rates suffer from the loss of international tourists and tourism revenue. Chapter 5 summarizes the findings …
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Examining Social Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Assessment Using the Work of Bourdieu, Coleman and Putnam
… on self-reported violent victimization and property crime victimization in Chicago neighborhoods using data from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN). Multivariate regression analyses measure the effects of these social capital dimensions individually. The …
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Design and deploy : iterative methods in adapting mobile technologies for data acquisition : a case study in St. Louis, Missouri
… such as proximity to homicides, public disorder, property crimes, vacancies, vehicle speed, and relative location along the route.
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Essays on Identity-Based Bias and Discrimination
… strong relative opposite-gender favoritism in property crimes. In property crimes, relative to the mean, female prosecutors are 32.2% less likely to drop a case and 13.5% less likely to drop a charge when handling same-gender defendants compared to male prosecutors. These biases carry through …
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The Genome, Genetic Genealogy Database (3g Database)
… it is limited and can only be used for specific crimes; in others, it is widely used, but its use is limited in other ways, such as restrictions as evidence in court. It also faces ethical issues such as intentionally planting DNA samples or leaking sensitive information. Also, the public needs …
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Women's perceptions of safety : CCTV in an inner city setting
… their safety at night and are afraid of personal crimes more than property crimes. Women are fearful at the railway station, when they are alone, in car parks and walkways and when waiting for taxis. Older women are more supportive of CCTV than younger women and all women would like to be made …
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Essays on Crime and Social Inequality
… and I examine its secondary consequences for property and violent crime. Employing a difference-in-differences framework and event study design, I find a sharp but temporary increase in property crimes, alongside a slight decline in violent crimes. Evidence suggests the property crime spike …
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Perceptions of crime : a comparative study of Essen, Germany and Malta
… justice system, and their own encounters with crimes. Such research is the key to the development of sophisticated crime prevention measures which are to be sensitive to the specific conditions of different environments in terms of the culture as well as the type of terrain. The study makes use …
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Essays on the Economics of Rental Housing and Crime
… significant impact on the total level of violent crimes or property crimes. </p> <p>The Impact of Market Concentration in the Market for Senior Rental Housing</p> <p>The senior housing rental market is one of the fastest growing housing segments, but relatively little is known about its market …
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Three Essays in Law and Economics: Consequences and Formation of Legal Rules in Other Markets
… 47</em> reduced penalties for non-serious property crimes, thereby providing a second chance for offenders who committed specific non-violent crimes, while lowering the burden on county jails by shifting offenders into local communities. My results indicate that <em>Prop 47</em> increased …
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Education in West Africa
… during the great migration increases violent crimes by 21.28 in the 1970s and by 9.202 in the 1960s, while property crimes increased by 29.56 and 17.31 in the 1970s and the 1960s respectively. More specifically, all the seven index crimes respond positively to the increase of African …
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Education in West Africa
… during the great migration increases violent crimes by 21.28 in the 1970s and by 9.202 in the 1960s, while property crimes increased by 29.56 and 17.31 in the 1970s and the 1960s respectively. More specifically, all the seven index crimes respond positively to the increase of African …
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The spatial dimensions of economic activity in South Africa: the role of regional policy, crime and the business environment
… and found out that crime rates, particularly, property crimes have a deterring effect on firm entry and the effect is large for firms in the wholesale and retail sector. These results are robust to using rainfall shocks as an instrumental variable for crime rates, to control for the fact that …
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Εγκληματικότητα και πολεοδομία
Η παρούσα έρευνα εντάσσεται στο πλαίσιο εκπόνησης διδακτορικής διατριβής στο Εργαστήριο του Τμήματος Αρχιτεκτόνων Μηχανικών του Πανεπιστημίου Πατρών. Η χαρτογράφηση της εγκληματικότητας (Crime Mapping) είναι η διαδικασία χρήσης της τεχνολογίας των Γεωγραφικών Συστημάτων Πληροφοριών και της …