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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"arrest rates"”.
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An analysis of gender differences in property crime arrest rates
… between employment conditions and property-crime arrest rates of working-aged individuals, using gender-specific state-level data from 1979-2001, complied from raw arrest data of the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports and the Census Bureau's annual March Current Population Survey. These data were …
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Institutionalizing Juveniles: An Analysis By Social Disorganization Controlling For Arrest Rates
… used in the study. When the control measure of arrest rate was added to the regression, no rural/urban difference was found. The percent non-white yielded the only consistently significant variable related to incarceration rates, except female incarceration for which no independent variable was …
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TV Policy Dynamics: Examining Effects of Advertising on Arrests in Cities
… with the bias in media and for the increase of arrest rates in minority groups, mainly the Black population. Kang’s arguments piggybacked on the arguments of Sampson & Wilson in regards to utilizing the macro-structural approach when looking at conscious political decisions actively affecting …
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Religion and differential justice.
… the effects of county-level affiliation rates on crime rates in the South. Applying spatial analyses to data from the 2010 Religious Census and Uniform Crime Reports, Black Protestant affiliation rates were found to be negatively associated with county-level property crime arrest rates, …
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Religion and differential justice.
… the effects of county-level affiliation rates on crime rates in the South. Applying spatial analyses to data from the 2010 Religious Census and Uniform Crime Reports, Black Protestant affiliation rates were found to be negatively associated with county-level property crime arrest rates, …
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Essays on the economics of crime and econometric methodology
… of whether higher wages reduce teenage crime rates. I exploit exogenous variation in the wages of teenagers resulting from federal minimum wage legislation. Instrumental variables estimates show a strong negative relationship between wages and arrest rates for burglary, larceny, motor vehicle …
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Essays on Crime and Social Inequality
… on racial disparities in drug-related arrests. Counties with higher cotton production in 1860 recorded significantly higher arrest rates of Black offenders after 1982, while white arrest rates remained unchanged. A case study of Arkansas reinforces these results, showing distinct …
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STATUS INTEGRATION AND ALCOHOL PROBLEMS IN THE UNITED STATES (STRESS)
… per capita and cirrhosis deaths per 100,000) and arrest rates for alcohol related offenses.</p><p>The findings for the fifty states reveal a strong inverse relationship between the level of status integration and heavy drinking. No significant relationship appears between the MSI and alcohol …
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Contextual differences in offense classifications: examining gender, race, and age differences
… This study explores the idea that girls' arrest rates may be increasing because gendered contextual differences are obscured in broad offense categories, meaning that girls and boys may engage in very different behaviors that lead to similar charges. This study explores the relationships …
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Uncovering the lived experience of marriage and family therapists working with incarcerated youth: A phenomenological approach
The United States incarcerates the highest proportion of adolescents in the world. Within the population of adolescents who are incarcerated, youth with diagnosable mental illness are overrepresented compared to the general population. Though youth arrest rates have declined greatly since the turn …
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The Expanding Definition of Crime and Its Effect on the Individual: A Multilevel Modeling Analysis
… state power. For the past twenty-five years the rates at which states have been locking up their residents have been growing at a distressing pace. While violent crime rates have been declining, arrest rates for lower-level crimes have been steadily rising. Two new indices are developed to …
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From Social Welfare to Social Control: Federal War in American Cities, 1968-1988
… guidelines that ensured historic incarceration rates. During this critical period, Presidential Administrations, State Departments, and Congress refocused the domestic agenda from social programs to crime and punishment. To challenge our understanding of the liberal welfare state and the rise of …
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A Multi-methods Approach to Build Evidence-Based Practice for Using Silver Diamine Fluoride for Managing Carious Lesions in Children
… and fluoride, which act synergistically to arrest carious lesions through a variety of mechanisms. It was cleared by the Food and Drug Administration in the United States in 2014 for managing dentine hypersensitivity. Since then, there has been growing global interest in its “off-label” use …