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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"crime victimization"”.
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WAR CRIME VICTIMIZATION EXPERIENCES OF SRI LANKAN TAMIL MAKAL: A QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS
… have given considerable attention to war crimes across nations. Numerous anthropologists, political scientists, and economists have conducted research on the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka; however, there is scant literature exploring violations of international law as experienced by the …
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Empirical Assessment of Risk Factors: How Online and Offline Lifestyle, Social Learning, And Social Networking Sites Influence Crime Victimization
… people are more exposed to various types of victimizations. The purpose of this study is to examine how our online and offline lifestyle choices can contribute to our risk of becoming a sexual crime victim. A random sample of college students from a Massachusetts college was used to gather …
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Community structure and criminal victimization
… has attempted to better understand property crime victimization by studying the important role of community structures, while controlling for the following demographic variables: age, gender, race, and income. Three different types of analyses were used: (1) bivariate analysis; (2) …
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Hate By Numbers: Exploring Hate Crime Reporting Across Crime Type And Among Special Interest Groups Using The NCVS
Hate crimes are of particular harm to both individual victims and the communities they represent but are difficult to measure due to challenges facing data collection and reporting to police. The National Crime Victimization Survey, or NCVS, is an important tool for gathering data regarding crime …
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Dissecting the Dark Figure of Dis/ablist Violence: Intersectional Variations in Reporting Across Dis/ability Types
… are at a heightened risk for lifelong violent victimization. Although victimized by the same types of crimes as non-dis/abled individuals, a deeper examination reveals dis/abled individuals experience unique circumstances that increase opportunities for victimization and barriers to reporting. …
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An Examination of Juvenile Delinquency and Victimization Using an Integrated Model Approach.
… in the explanation of juvenile delinquency and victimization. Using cross-sectional data obtained from the Gang Resistance Education and Training (G.R.E.A.T.) survey, a sample of 1,555 middle school students was examined. The results of the Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regressions indicate that …
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A criminology of catastrophe: a critical analysis of imperialistic state crime and the Haiti earthquake
… disasters is aggravated by imperialistic state crimes, which predispose populations to conditions of vulnerability and dependency. I substantiate this argument with an analysis of Haiti and demonstrate how its history of imperialistic exploitation by the US amounted to a pattern of state crime …
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Rowan University students' perceptions of campus safety
… hometown setting, home distance from Rowan, and crime victimization history on student perceptions. Data on the perceptions were collected by a survey using Likert items on a 1-5 scale, open ended, multiple choice questions, and free response comments. Questions were grouped by demographic …
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Examining Social Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Assessment Using the Work of Bourdieu, Coleman and Putnam
… residents can have an impact on the amount of crime that occurs within their own neighborhood. While previous criminological research has identified a negative relationship between the levels of social capital and victimization within neighborhoods, these studies often used different …
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Islamophobia : reality or myth?
… of over 15,000 Muslim respondents in respect of crime victimization, discrimination and attitudes towards British society and the British state, and the reported attitudes of over 300,000 non-Muslim respondents towards Muslims and Islam. The central contention of this thesis is that available …
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Police bias and socioeconomic status: Are the police biased towards individuals in lower SES and poverty areas?
… and poverty areas are less likely to report a crime to police as police bias and inefficiency, being one of the reasons. In USA 2012, NCVS conducted a survey for 12 years and older by BJS. A dataset of 7277 participants was available at ICPSR and used in this study, which focused on police bias …
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Essays on the economics of crime and econometric methodology
… this thesis covers two topics: the economics of crime and econometric methodology. The first chapter addresses the question of whether higher wages reduce teenage crime rates. I exploit exogenous variation in the wages of teenagers resulting from federal minimum wage legislation. Instrumental …
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Immigration and Crime: A Microeconometric Study
Although the relationship between immigration and crime has been a very controversial subject in the UK, the empirical evidence is limited. This thesis intends to narrow this gap by providing a comprehensive investigation for England and Wales of immigrants’ both active and passive involvement in …
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The Influence of Environmental Disruption on Offender-Target Interactions and Criminal Activity in Emergency Scenarios
Both vulnerability to crime victimization and exposure to the criminal justice system are inherently spatial phenomena, with varying, and often disparate, implications among people and across places. The geography of crime is best understood as a complex adaptive system in which criminogenic spaces …
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Examining Sexual Victimization Among Women: Do Ecological Factors Predict the Severity of Sexual Assault?
Rape and other forms of sexual victimization against women are considered to be among the most severe and underreported crimes in the United States. Although all forms of sexual assault can be traumatic, there is research to suggest that the more severe the assault; specifically, the greater level …
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Voices of Latino/a immigrants in southeast Michigan: Beyond the criminal/Victim dichotomy
… desires to reduce status-driven offending and victimization.</p>
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Fear of crime : a socio-criminological investigation
… community. If the quality of life is affected by crime or the fear of criminal victimisation, then both crime and the fear of crime should be viewed as a social problem. The fear of crime is the focus point of this study as it produces changes in the lifestyle of the individual and the functioning …