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Ku HJ, Kim JH, Choe YJ, Choe SA, Zonfrillo MR. Assessing the impact and implications of the revised Act on the Aggravated Punishment of Specific Crimes in preventing child traffic injuries in school zones in Korea: an interrupted time series analysis. Epidemiol Health 2024; 46:e2024032. [PMID: 38453334 DOI: 10.4178/epih.e2024032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2023] [Accepted: 02/06/2024] [Indexed: 03/09/2024] Open
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In 2019, a child's death in Korea led to legislation that imposed stricter penalties for school zone traffic violations. We assessed the impact of that legislation using 2017-2022 Traffic Accident Analysis System data. Adjusted analyses revealed a significant decline in severe injuries in school zones, decreasing from 11 cases to 8 cases per month (p=0.017). The legislation correlated with a reduced risk of all child traffic injuries (risk ratio, 0.987; 95% confidence interval, 0.977 to 0.997; p=0.002), indicating its efficacy in curbing accidents.
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- Hong Jin Ku
- Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
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- Institute of Health and Environment, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Pediatrics, Korea University Anam Hospital, Seoul, Korea
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- Departments of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
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Macassa G, McGrath C. Common Problems! and Common Solutions? - Teaching at the Intersection Between Public Health and Criminology: A Public Health Perspective. Ann Glob Health 2024; 90:12. [PMID: 38370862 PMCID: PMC10870948 DOI: 10.5334/aogh.4375] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2023] [Accepted: 01/20/2024] [Indexed: 02/20/2024] Open
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Public health and criminology share similar current and future challenges, mostly related to crime and health causation, prevention, and sustainable development. Interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches to education at the intersection of public health and criminology can be an integral part of future training in areas of mutual interest. Based on reflections on teaching criminology students, this viewpoint discusses the main interconnections between public health and criminology teaching through the public health lens. The paper discusses potential challenges associated with interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity. Among these challenges is communication across the different fields and their perspectives to be able to achieve the desired complementarity at the intersection of the two disciplines.
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- Gloria Macassa
- Department of Public Health and Sports Science, Faculty of Occupational and Health Sciences, University of Gävle, Kungsbacksvägen 47, 80176 Gävle, Sweden
- Department of Public Health, School of Health Sciences, University of Skövde, 541 28 Skövde, Sweden
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- EPIUnit–Instituto de Saude Publica, Universidade do Porto, Rua das Taipas 135, 4050–600 Porto, Portugal
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Ebus B. How a surge in organized crime threatens the Amazon. Nature 2024; 625:9. [PMID: 38135843 DOI: 10.1038/d41586-023-04087-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2023]
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Tinsman JC, Gruppi C, Bossu CM, Prigge TL, Harrigan RJ, Zaunbrecher V, Koepfli KP, LeBreton M, Njabo K, Wenda C, Xing S, Abernethy K, Ades G, Akeredolu E, Andrew IB, Barrett TA, Bernáthová I, Černá Bolfíková B, Diffo JL, Difouo Fopa G, Ebong LE, Godwill I, Koumba Pambo AF, Labuschagne K, Nwobegahay Mbekem J, Momboua BR, Mousset Moumbolou CL, Ntie S, Rose-Jeffreys E, Simo FT, Sundar K, Swiacká M, Takuo JM, Talla VNK, Tamoufe U, Dingle C, Ruegg K, Bonebrake TC, Smith TB. Genomic analyses reveal poaching hotspots and illegal trade in pangolins from Africa to Asia. Science 2023; 382:1282-1286. [PMID: 38096373 DOI: 10.1126/science.adi5066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2023] [Accepted: 11/10/2023] [Indexed: 12/18/2023]
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The white-bellied pangolin (Phataginus tricuspis) is the world's most trafficked mammal and is at risk of extinction. Reducing the illegal wildlife trade requires an understanding of its origins. Using a genomic approach for tracing confiscations and analyzing 111 samples collected from known geographic localities in Africa and 643 seized scales from Asia between 2012 and 2018, we found that poaching pressures shifted over time from West to Central Africa. Recently, Cameroon's southern border has emerged as a site of intense poaching. Using data from seizures representing nearly 1 million African pangolins, we identified Nigeria as one important hub for trafficking, where scales are amassed and transshipped to markets in Asia. This origin-to-destination approach offers new opportunities to disrupt the illegal wildlife trade and to guide anti-trafficking measures.
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- Jen C Tinsman
- Center for Tropical Research, Institute of the Environment, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- National Fish and Wildlife Forensic Laboratory, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Ashland, OR, USA
- Congo Basin Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Pangolin Specialist Group, IUCN Species Survival Commission, London, UK
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- Center for Tropical Research, Institute of the Environment, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Congo Basin Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Pangolin Specialist Group, IUCN Species Survival Commission, London, UK
- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Center for Tropical Research, Institute of the Environment, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Congo Basin Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Center for Tropical Research, Institute of the Environment, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Congo Basin Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Smithsonian-Mason School of Conservation, George Mason University, Front Royal, VA, USA
- Center for Species Survival, Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, Washington, DC, USA
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- Congo Basin Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Mosaic, Yaoundé, Cameroon
- International Institute for Tropical Agriculture, Yaoundé, Cameroon
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- Center for Tropical Research, Institute of the Environment, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Congo Basin Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
- School of Ecology, Shenzhen Campus of Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen, China
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- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
- School of Ecology, Shenzhen Campus of Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen, China
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- Institut de Recherche en Ecologie Tropicale, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique et Technologique, Libreville, Gabon
- Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK
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- Fauna Conservation Department, Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
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- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Faculty of Tropical AgriSciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Faculty of Tropical AgriSciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Pangolin Specialist Group, IUCN Species Survival Commission, London, UK
- Department of Biology and Animal Physiology, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon
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- Department of Ecology and Nature Management, School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Engineering, National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University, Tomsk, Russia
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- Pangolin Specialist Group, IUCN Species Survival Commission, London, UK
- Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Aquaculture, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS, USA
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- South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria, South Africa
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- Agence Nationale des Parcs Nationaux, Libreville, Gabon
- Département de Biologie, Faculté des Sciences, Université des Sciences et Techniques de Masuku, Franceville, Gabon
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- Pangolin Specialist Group, IUCN Species Survival Commission, London, UK
- Agence Nationale des Parcs Nationaux, Libreville, Gabon
- Département de Biologie, Faculté des Sciences, Université des Sciences et Techniques de Masuku, Franceville, Gabon
- Pangolin Conservation Network, Libreville, Gabon
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- Agence Nationale des Parcs Nationaux, Libreville, Gabon
- Département de Biologie, Faculté des Sciences, Université des Sciences et Techniques de Masuku, Franceville, Gabon
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- Pangolin Specialist Group, IUCN Species Survival Commission, London, UK
- Department of Biology and Animal Physiology, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon
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- Center for Tropical Research, Institute of the Environment, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Spatial Sciences, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
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- International Institute for Tropical Agriculture, Yaoundé, Cameroon
- Metabiota Cameroon Ltd, Yaoundé, Cameroon
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- Département de Biologie des Organismes, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
- Laboratory of Applied Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Science, University of Dschang, Dschang, Cameroon
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- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Congo Basin Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Pangolin Specialist Group, IUCN Species Survival Commission, London, UK
- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Center for Tropical Research, Institute of the Environment, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Congo Basin Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Guo JY, Kong Y. "I Sometimes Pretended to Get Groceries": Restrictive Deterrence in Drug Dealing. Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol 2023; 67:1681-1698. [PMID: 36583223 DOI: 10.1177/0306624x221144301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Despite steady progress in drug control work, drug-related crimes are ranked third in the total number of criminal cases in China. Based on in-depth interviews with 24 offenders who are now incarcerated for drug offenses, this paper examines the strategies employed by drug offenders to evade detection and mitigate their punishment for drug dealing. Their most frequently-used strategies focus on filtering out risky people, ensuring information asymmetry and knowing when to stop. Exploring how offenders adapt their behavior in response to punishment helps to further our understanding of crime commission and control.
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- Jing-Ying Guo
- Zhejiang Police Vocational Academy, Xiasha Higher Education Zone, Hangzhou City, China
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- Zhejiang Police Vocational Academy, Xiasha Higher Education Zone, Hangzhou City, China
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Bushman G, Kondo MC, Rupp LA, Hohl BC, Gong CH, Zimmerman MA. Associations between land bank ownership and stewardship of vacant properties and crime, violence, and youth victimization in Flint, MI. Am J Community Psychol 2023; 72:428-442. [PMID: 37846198 DOI: 10.1002/ajcp.12706] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2023] [Revised: 06/15/2023] [Accepted: 08/29/2023] [Indexed: 10/18/2023]
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Land banks across the United States are managing expanding vacant property inventories. By maintaining vacant properties and engaging residents in the process, land banks facilitate processes integral to building safe neighborhoods and may play a role in violence prevention. Using generalized additive mixed model regression, adjusted for spatial and temporal dependencies, we examined whether land bank ownership and stewardship of vacant properties in Flint, Michigan were associated with trends in serious, violent, and firearm-involved crime, between 2015 and 2018. We tested for differences in trends in crime density between properties owned by the Genesee County Land Bank Authority (GCLBA; n = 7151) and comparison properties not owned by the land bank (n = 6,245). In addition, we tested for differences in crime density trends between vacant properties that received different levels of land bank stewardship, including biannual mowing, GCLBA standard stewardship, and GCLBA-sponsored community-engaged stewardship. We found that GCLBA ownership was associated with net declines in densities of all types of crime and violence, over time, relative to properties not owned by the GCLBA. When we distinguished between levels of stewardship, we found that GCLBA stewardship, both with and without community engagement, was associated with net declines in serious and violent crime relative to comparison properties. Only community-engaged GCLBA stewardship was associated with declines in firearm-involved crime and firearm-involved crime with a youth victim over time, relative to comparison properties. Land bank stewardship of vacant properties may be protective against crime, violence, and youth victimization in legacy cities like Flint, MI that experience high rates of vacant properties and violent crime.
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- Gregory Bushman
- Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Philadelphia Field Station, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Penn Injury Science Center, Perelman School of Medicine, The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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Ratcliffe JH, Huffer M. Quasi-experimental study finding no localised gun crime or call reduction after gun buybacks in Philadelphia. Inj Prev 2023; 29:519-524. [PMID: 37802644 DOI: 10.1136/ip-2023-044948] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2023] [Accepted: 08/24/2023] [Indexed: 10/10/2023]
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INTRODUCTION Gun buyback programmes have been popular in the USA since the 1970s. Studies show that they have no effect on citywide gun crime rates, but more microlevel examinations around gun buyback locations have not been conducted. This study tests for local effects of 34 Philadelphia, PA buyback events at 30 locations between 2019 and 2021. METHODS We analysed all gun-related crime events and gun-related calls for service attended by the police from 2019 to 2021. Multilevel models with an autoregressive residual structure were estimated on weekly gun crime and call event intensity (inverse distance weighted) totals across a range of distances (4000-8000 feet). Impacts of a gun buyback event were estimated for 1-4 weeks postevent. RESULTS Statistically significant weekly increases in gun event intensity are associated with seasonality and after the murder of George Floyd. Gun event intensity was not significantly affected by gun buybacks. Across 20 sensitivity tests of different distances and time periods (4000-8000 feet and between 1 and 4 weeks), gun buybacks were not statistically associated with any localised reduction in the intensity of gun crimes and calls. CONCLUSIONS Extant research has failed to uncover any effect of gun buybacks on citywide gun crime rates. The current results now contribute a lack of evidence at the local level to this literature. While gun buybacks remain popular with politicians and the public, this study adds to the ongoing question of whether buyback funds could be better spent more effectively.
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- Jerry H Ratcliffe
- Department of Criminal Justice, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Criminal Justice, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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Chalfin A, del Pozo B, Mitre-Becerril D. Overdose Prevention Centers, Crime, and Disorder in New York City. JAMA Netw Open 2023; 6:e2342228. [PMID: 37955901 PMCID: PMC10644216 DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.42228] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2023] [Accepted: 09/25/2023] [Indexed: 11/14/2023] Open
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Importance The first government-sanctioned overdose prevention centers (OPCs) in the US opened in New York City (NYC) in November 2021 amid concerns that they may increase crime and disorder, representing a significant political challenge to OPCs. Objective To identify whether opening the first 2 government-sanctioned OPCs in the US was associated with changes in crime and disorder. Design, Setting, and Participants In this cohort study, difference-in-differences Poisson regression models were used to compare crime, residents' requests for assistance for emergencies and nuisance complaints, and police enforcement in the vicinity of NYC's 2 OPCs with those around 17 other syringe service programs that did not offer overdose prevention services from January 1, 2019, through December 31, 2022. Main Outcomes and Measures Changes in the volume of crimes reported by the public or observed by police; arrests for drug possession and weapons; 911 calls and 311 calls regarding crime, public nuisances, and medical events; and summonses issued by police for criminal infractions in both the immediate vicinity of the sites (ie, a hexagonal area spanning about 6 city blocks) and their wider neighborhoods (ie, a tesselated 3-hexagon array spanning about 18 city blocks). Results No significant changes were detected in violent crimes or property crimes recorded by police, 911 calls for crime or medical incidents, or 311 calls regarding drug use or unsanitary conditions observed in the vicinity of the OPCs. There was a significant decline in low-level drug enforcement, as reflected by a reduction in arrests for drug possession near the OPCs of 82.7% (95% CI, -89.9% to -70.4%) and a reduction in their broader neighborhoods of 74.5% (95% CI, -87.0% to -50.0%). Significant declines in criminal court summonses issued in the immediate vicinity by 87.9% (95% CI, -91.9% to -81.9%) and in the neighborhoods around the OPCs by 59.7% (95% CI, -73.8% to -38.0%) were observed. Reductions in enforcement were consistent with the city government's support for the 2 OPCs, which may have resulted in a desire not to deter clients from using the sites by fear of arrest for drug possession. Conclusions and Relevance In this difference-in-differences cohort study, the first 2 government-sanctioned OPCs in the US were not associated with significant changes in measures of crime or disorder. These observations suggest the expansion of OPCs can be managed without negative crime or disorder outcomes.
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- Aaron Chalfin
- National Bureau of Economic Research, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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- Division of General Internal Medicine, Rhode Island Hospital, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence
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Wolfowicz M, Campedelli GM, Seaward A, Gill P. Arrests and convictions but not sentence length deter terrorism in 28 European Union member states. Nat Hum Behav 2023; 7:1878-1889. [PMID: 37667003 DOI: 10.1038/s41562-023-01695-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2023] [Accepted: 08/03/2023] [Indexed: 09/06/2023]
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While countries differ in how they handle terrorism, criminal justice systems in Europe and elsewhere treat terrorism similar to other crime, with police, prosecutors, judges, courts and penal systems carrying out similar functions of investigations, apprehension, charging, convicting and overseeing punishments, respectively. We address a dearth of research on potential deterrent effects against terrorism by analysing data on terrorism offending, arrests, charges, convictions and sentencing over 16 years in 28 European Union member states. Applying both count and dynamic panel data models across multiple specifications, we find that increased probability of apprehension and punishment demonstrate an inverse relationship with terrorism offending, while the rate of charged individuals is associated with a small increase in terrorism. The results for sentence length are less clear but also indicate potential backlash effects. These findings unveil overlaps between crime and terrorism in terms of deterrent effects and have implications for both the research agenda and policy discussion.
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- Michael Wolfowicz
- Institute of Criminology, Faculty of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.
- Department of Security and Crime Science, University College London, London, UK.
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- Department of Security and Crime Science, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Security and Crime Science, University College London, London, UK
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Adeleke GF, Lawal MO, Lanre-Babalola FO, Akinpelu TO. Effect of social cohesion on crime control strategies among rural dwellers in Nigeria. J Community Psychol 2023; 51:2697-2711. [PMID: 37017282 DOI: 10.1002/jcop.23042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2022] [Revised: 03/23/2023] [Accepted: 03/24/2023] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
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This study examined how social cohesion variables, SCV are associated with effective crime control strategies, CCS in Nigeria's rural areas. With mixed-methods, we collected data from 3408 participants and 12 interviewees in 48 rural areas; the results showed that strong SCV indirectly hindered an effective CCS. Significant correlation was found between SCV and CCS. The SCV are shared emotions, strong-family and religious-ties, mutual-trust, communal cohesion, well-articulated common information network, and longstanding age-group bond. The CCS adopted by the law enforcement agents were largely ineffective; these strategies are indiscriminate arrest or search with/without warrant, secret deployment of informants, liaising with local security guards and prompt documentation of cases. Other strategies include monitoring crime black-spots, collaboration among different security agencies, awareness programs and strong community-police relationship. There is a need for public awareness about the negative effects of communal bond on crime control to have a crime-free society in Nigeria.
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- Gbadebo Fatai Adeleke
- Department of Sociology and Criminology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Okuku Campus, Osun State University, Osogbo, Osun state, Nigeria
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- Department of Sociology and Criminology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Okuku Campus, Osun State University, Osogbo, Osun state, Nigeria
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- Department of Sociology and Criminology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Okuku Campus, Osun State University, Osogbo, Osun state, Nigeria
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- Department of Sociology and Criminology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Okuku Campus, Osun State University, Osogbo, Osun state, Nigeria
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Uddin N, Enoch S, Harihar A, Pickles RSA, Ara T, Hughes AC. Learning from perpetrator replacement to remove crime opportunities and prevent poaching of the Sundarbans tiger. Conserv Biol 2023; 37:e13997. [PMID: 36047697 DOI: 10.1111/cobi.13997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2021] [Revised: 08/17/2022] [Accepted: 08/22/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Illegal wildlife trade (IWT) is one of the leading causes of the decline in high-value species. Crime-reduction strategies to counter IWT can have unintended effects, with crime displacement occurring when offenders react to such interventions. Despite the value of understanding how and why displacement occurs for informing conservation strategies, few examples are published. We explored a case of perpetrator replacement following an intervention and drew lessons for conservation strategies for high-value species. Poaching and subsequent trade threaten the Sundarbans tiger (Panthera tigris). Pirate gangs were the dominant poachers from 1980 to 2017, but following an extensive campaign, the Sundarbans was declared pirate free in 2018. We interviewed 280 individuals, including 100 tiger poachers, from 26 administrative unions bordering the Sundarbans and used interviewee responses to compare the poaching situation during and after the pirate era. We analyzed the spatial distribution of tiger poachers among the unions and used crime script analysis of the dominant poacher type to identify intervention. Because pirates opportunistically poached tigers, the government's successful counter-pirate campaign inadvertently removed the dominant tiger poaching type. However, a temporary reduction in poaching was rapidly cancelled out by the emergence of at least 32 specialist tiger-poaching teams. With the risk of extortion and robbery from pirates gone, other groups increased the frequency of opportunistic and targeted tiger poaching. Based on expert interviews, we estimated that 341 tiger poachers of all types are active throughout the unions, with 79% of specialists concentrated in 27% of unions. The highly focused counter-pirate campaign reduced motivations and opportunities for piracy but left intact the opportunity structure and trade connections for tiger poaching, and with insufficient enforcement officers trading has flourished. Interventions targeting opportunities for poaching by specialist tiger poachers include heightened surveillance and reporting mechanisms and alternative livelihood provision to disincentivize poaching.
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- Nasir Uddin
- Landscape Ecology Group, Center for Integrative Conservation, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Menglun, China
- International College, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Statistical Research and Training, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh
- Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR), Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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- School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Koegl CJ, Farrington DP, Welsh BC. Cost-benefit analyses of developmental crime prevention programmes. Crim Behav Ment Health 2023; 33:106-115. [PMID: 36914866 DOI: 10.1002/cbm.2283] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2023] [Accepted: 02/27/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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BACKGROUND Children and youth who are at risk of becoming early-onset life-course-persistent offenders often slip through the cracks of other systems in society (e.g., health, education, child welfare, substance use and mental health). When they do, they impose an enormous economic burden on society. Developmental crime prevention (DCP) programmes seek to reduce these costs through evidence-based interventions that target individual child and family risk and protective factors for antisocial behaviour. AIM This study reviewed cost-benefit analysis studies of DCP interventions to identify whether they produced monetary benefits that exceeded programme costs. METHOD We searched the literature for studies of interventions that were evaluated using high-quality research methods (i.e., experimental or quasi-experimental designs). Key characteristics of these evaluations are summarised and benefit-to-cost ratios (BCRs) are reported. RESULTS Eleven cost-benefit analysis (CBA) evaluations met study criteria. The programmes varied in terms of who they targeted (e.g., pregnant mothers, at-risk youth), the age of participants (e.g., adults, children, older youth), the intervention duration (e.g., 10 weeks to 4 years), and the follow-up interval (e.g., 6 months to 50 years). Ten of the 11 studies produced favourable BCRs, ranging between 1.35 and 31.77, depending on the type and scope of outcomes that were monetised. CONCLUSION There is strong evidence in support of DCP from a cost-benefit perspective. However, given the small number of studies for analysis, more prospective longitudinal CBA evaluations are needed, in addition to greater consistency in the scope and methods that are used to monetise outcomes.
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- Christopher J Koegl
- Centre for Children Committing Offences, Child Development Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Spiritual criminology (SC) is an umbrella term for various criminological theories, models and practices that share reference to the spiritual dimension of human existence. Informed by a growing body of research that applies spiritual approaches to various aspects of criminology, SC attempts to provide a common thread shared by most approaches to spirituality: a voluntary self-journey that begins with an elevated level of self-centeredness and is aimed at self-transformation. Based on an extensive review of the literature, this paper proposes three general principles for spiritual accompaniment of people who offended: mindful non-doing, being and acting; love and compassion; and compassionate inclusion. These principles can be applied by combining several practices: renouncing control over knowledge, process and outcomes; creating a moral atmosphere that includes forgiveness and nonjudgment; and self-modeling. SC is shown to contribute to the rehabilitation of people who offended and also to crime prevention.
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Benavente JM, Goya D. The fear-increasing and fear-decreasing effects of a pilot policy to reduce fear of crime. PLoS One 2023; 18:e0282461. [PMID: 36877718 PMCID: PMC9987788 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0282461] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2021] [Accepted: 02/16/2023] [Indexed: 03/07/2023] Open
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Fear of crime has been rising persistently in Chile, even in periods where actual crime rates have decreased, making the perception of crime an important policy issue. This paper presents the results of the impact evaluation of a pilot public policy designed to reduce fear of crime around a shopping centre in Santiago, Chile. The pilot policy consisted of installing a team including police officers and local government officials that handed out information leaflets and talked to passers-by about crime prevention. Pre-intervention and post-intervention surveys were conducted in the shopping centre where the programme was implemented and in a control shopping centre nearby to identify the causal effects of the policy using a difference-in-differences empirical strategy. The results indicate that the programme was effective in reducing fear of crime around the shopping centre, especially at night among its workers, and that it reduced actual crime. However, a deeper analysis suggests that the programme might have actually increased fear of crime among the individuals who directly interacted with the programme. The reduction in crime might have indirectly resulted in an overall reduction in fear among workers, who are likely to be up to date on criminal occurrences in the area, explaining how an increase in fear in those directly contacted is consistent with an overall reduction in fear across workers.
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- Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile
- Ministry of Economy, Development and Tourism, Chile
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An R, Sang T. The Guarantee Mechanism of China's Environmental Protection Strategy from the Perspective of Global Environmental Governance-Focusing on the Punishment of Environmental Pollution Crime in China. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2022; 19:14745. [PMID: 36429464 PMCID: PMC9690176 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph192214745] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2022] [Revised: 11/06/2022] [Accepted: 11/07/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Effective global environmental governance is the only viable way to solve the human environmental crisis. For a long time, China has been an active promoter and contributor to the global environmental governance system. In recent years, China has enhanced the penalty intensity of environmental crimes, the environmental pollution crimes in particular, and received good results in order to better realize the construction of ecological civilization and better fulfill the emission reduction targets of international environmental treaties. The deterioration of China's environmental crisis in the past and the lack of deterrent effect of China's environmental laws are closely related to the ineffective punishment of environmental crimes. In order to better promote environmental protection careers, China's environmental crimes still need to be continuously optimized in terms of adding charges, legislative models and restorative justice.
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- Ran An
- Law School, Qufu Normal University, Rizhao 276826, China
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- Koguan Law School, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai 200030, China
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Hou F. Echoing Mechanism of Juvenile Delinquency Prevention and Occupational Therapy Education Guidance Based on Artificial Intelligence. Occup Ther Int 2022; 2022:9115547. [PMID: 36249580 PMCID: PMC9536973 DOI: 10.1155/2022/9115547] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2022] [Revised: 08/04/2022] [Accepted: 08/10/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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In this paper, in-depth research and analysis of juvenile delinquency prevention and occupational therapy education guidance using artificial intelligence are conducted, and its response mechanism is designed in this way. Two crime type prediction algorithms based on time-crime type count vectorization and dense neural network and crime type prediction based on the fusion of dense neural network and long- and short-term memory neural network are proposed. The outputs of both are fed into a new neural network for training to achieve the fusion of the two neural networks. Among them, the use of the dense neural network can effectively fit the relationship between the constructed features and crime types. The behavioral manifestations and causes of the formation of deviant behavior in adolescents are discussed. They can only read numerical data, but there is a lot of information in the textual data that is closely related to the training effect. When experimenting, it is necessary to extract knowledge and build applications. The practical work with adolescents with deviant behaviors is again carried out from group work and casework, respectively, with problem diagnosis, needs assessment, and service plan development for specific clients, to carry out relevant practical service work. The causes of juvenile delinquency in the Internet culture are discussed in terms of the Internet environment, juvenile use of the Internet, Internet supervision, and crime prevention education, respectively. The fourth chapter focuses on the analysis of the prevention and control measures for juvenile delinquency in cyberculture. In response to the above-mentioned causes of juvenile delinquency in cyberculture, the prevention and control measures are discussed in four aspects, namely, strengthening the construction of cyberculture and building a healthy cyber environment, strengthening the capacity building of guiding juveniles to use cyber correctly, building a prevention and supervision system to promote the improvement of the legal system, and improving and innovating the crime prevention education in the cyber era.
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- Fang Hou
- Research Centre of Applied Technology University, Huanghuai University, Zhumadian, 463000, China
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Matson PA, Stankov I, Hassmiller Lich K, Flessa S, Lowy J, Thornton RLJ. A systems framework depicting how complex neighborhood dynamics and contextual factors could impact the effectiveness of an alcohol outlet zoning policy. Am J Community Psychol 2022; 70:18-32. [PMID: 34784432 DOI: 10.1002/ajcp.12566] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2021] [Revised: 09/18/2021] [Accepted: 10/06/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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An updated zoning policy eliminating all alcohol outlets (liquor stores) in residential districts was implemented to reduce high rates of violent crime in Baltimore City. Diverse stakeholders were engaged in group model building (GMB) activities to develop causal loop diagrams (CLDs) that elucidate the impact of the new zoning policy on crime, and more broadly, the potentially unintended social and environmental consequences of the policy. Three distinct groups, community advocates, city officials/academics, and community residents, participated in three separate GMB sessions. Three CLDs, one from each stakeholder group, were created to depict the possible outcomes of the zoning policy. Our findings offer insight into potential unintended consequences of removing liquor stores from residential areas that may undermine the policy. Community members described the need for additional supports related to mental health and substance use, opportunities for investment in the community, access to other goods and services, and community-police relations to ensure the policy achieved its intended goal of reducing violent crime. Our findings highlight the importance of timely engagement of local stakeholders to understand how complex neighborhood dynamics and contextual factors could impact the effectiveness of a zoning policy change.
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- Pamela A Matson
- Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Urban Health Collaborative, Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- UniSA Allied Health and Human Performance, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- Department of Health Policy and Management, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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Hsu SC, Chen KY, Lin CP, Su WH. Knowledge Development Trajectories of Crime Prevention Domain: An Academic Study Based on Citation and Main Path Analysis. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2022; 19:10616. [PMID: 36078333 PMCID: PMC9518402 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph191710616] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2022] [Revised: 08/17/2022] [Accepted: 08/23/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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This study performed main path analysis to explore the academic field of crime prevention. Studies were collected from the Web of Science database, and main path analysis was used to analyze the studies and identify influential authors and journals on the basis of the g-index and h-index. Cluster analysis was then performed to group studies with related themes. Wordle was used to output keywords and word clouds for each cluster, both of which were used as reference to name each cluster. Five clusters were identified, namely crime displacement control, crime prevention through environmental design, developmental crime prevention, the effects of communalism on crime prevention, and the effect of childhood sexual abuse on crime. Each cluster was analyzed, and suggestions based on the results are provided. The main purpose of crime prevention is to advance our understanding of the psychological criminal mechanisms (i.e., personal, social and environmental impacts) associated with different criminal behaviors at the intersection of law by using main path analysis.
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- Song-Chia Hsu
- College of Management, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei 10608, Taiwan
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- Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei 10608, Taiwan
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- Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei 10608, Taiwan
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- Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei 10608, Taiwan
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Incest covers multiple situations that have in common family dynamics where the absolute prohibition to have sexual relations with one of its members is not respected. It is a fundamental taboo in our Western societies where the family is considered as a system structuring the relationships between individuals. How can we understand the family transactions that can lead to such situations? What do we know today about families where incest occurs? What is the place of each member of this family, whether he or she is an actor, a witness, or totally unaware of the facts? What happens to the victims of such acts? Here is an insight into these different questions based on our experience as psychotherapists and researchers.
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- Hélène Romano
- c/o Elsevier, 65 rue Camille-Desmoulins, 92442 Issy-les-Moulineaux cedex, France.
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Arrigo BA, Paz JM. Editors' Introduction to the Special Issue: The Virtues of Justice: Rethinking Crime and Punishment. Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol 2022; 66:959-961. [PMID: 35702022 DOI: 10.1177/0306624x221104936] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Nurse A. Contemporary Perspectives on Environmental Enforcement. Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol 2022; 66:327-344. [PMID: 33090045 PMCID: PMC8808359 DOI: 10.1177/0306624x20964037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Green criminology allows for the study of environmental and criminal laws, environmental criminality which includes widespread environmental harm, and the abuse and exploitation of nonhuman animals. Yet many environmental crimes are not the core focus of criminal justice systems or public concern about crime and safety despite having the potential to cause far wider social harm and a large number of deaths. Instead much environmental enforcement is regulatory or administrative in nature, particularly in respect of corporate environmental wrongdoing, which is often categorized as accidental wrongdoing, largely considered to be the fault of "rogue" employees or the unintended consequences of governance failures. Unlike traditional street and property crimes, environmental crimes (and environmental harms) frequently have long-lasting and irreversible effects. This raises questions about the effectiveness of justice systems in dealing with environmental offenders and the damage they cause. This paper explores the effectiveness of contemporary environmental enforcement mechanisms. In particular, the paper explores the extent to which they such mechanism are equipped to deal with corporate environmental offending which in many cases is a consequence of the operation of neoliberal markets. This paper examines whether the drive for profits and anthropocentric attitudes toward the environment and exploitation of natural resources create a situation where corporate environmental crime is a foreseeable and even natural/inevitable consequence. Where that is the case and where corporations have the resources to continue paying fines and the expertise to navigate regulatory justice systems, an alternative to the law enforcement "detection apprehension and punishment" approach might be required.
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- Angus Nurse
- Middlesex University School of Law, London, UK
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Runhovde SR. Mind the Gap! Decoupling Between Policy and Practice in the Policing of Illegal Wildlife Trade. Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol 2022; 66:369-388. [PMID: 33124485 DOI: 10.1177/0306624x20967953] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Despite numerous promises and pledges at national and international levels to confront what many acknowledge as a crisis, illegal trade in wild plants and animals continues to grow and diversify. Empirical research conducted in Norway and Uganda from 2013 to 2015 indicates that despite the different circumstances in which law enforcement operates in the two countries, policing agents face a number of comparable challenges. Drawing on institutional theory the paper argues that decoupling, that is, gaps between official policies and daily work activities within the policing organizations, compromises enforcement in both countries. Challenges stem from conflicting demands, poor resources and want of guidelines that oblige officers to prioritize the control of illegal wildlife trade in practice.
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Chen G, Zhang S, Yan B, Miao S. Environmental safety evaluation of geopark based on CPTED concept and fuzzy comprehensive analysis. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0260316. [PMID: 34807949 PMCID: PMC8608292 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0260316] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2021] [Accepted: 11/07/2021] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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In recent years, with the increasingly popular and openness of Geoparks, Environmental safety has become a major concern for sustainable geo-tourism. It is therefore necessary to conduct an environmental safety performance evaluation for promoting geo-tourism development. In order to identify and figure out the factors influencing the tourists’ environmental safety perception, an index system was established based on six principles of Crime Prevention Through environment design (CPTED) theory. A Questionnaire was adopted for data collection, and the overall evaluation value and concrete index scores at all levels were obtained via the fuzzy comprehensive analysis and Importance-Performance analysis. Empirical results show that: (1) tourists’ perception of environmental safety performance in Shilin Park from high to low was: image and maintenance, Natural Surveillance, territoriality, Access control, Activity support and target hardening; (2) The sub-factors influencing tourists’ safety perception mostly include electronic monitoring device, Lighting system, Public safety management, Road layout, environmental sanitation; While attention should be paid on the following aspects including park service center, inter-personal surveillance, surrounding environment, unobstructed view, parking lot, Signpost, for they are considered as high-importance items with relatively poor performance. Based on the analysis, three optimization measures were proposed, including optimizing the layout and design of each space, strengthening the deterrent force of the park and maintaining a good environmental image. This research provides useful suggestions for Geopark decision-makers on determining the priority of Geopark spatial planning and management, as well as achieving the optimal allocation of resources to promote the sustainable development of Geopark.
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- Guoyi Chen
- School of Business Management, Chongqing Three Gorges University, Chongqing, China
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- School of Business Management, Chongqing Three Gorges University, Chongqing, China
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- School of Business Management, Chongqing Three Gorges University, Chongqing, China
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- Chongqing University of Arts and Sciences, Chongqing, China
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COVID-19 most likely had its origins in wildlife, and hundreds of thousands of new viruses could spill over from wildlife to humans. We are struggling to combat climate change, and we are staring down the loss of a million species. It's time to change course.
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- John E. Scanlon AO
- Global Initiative to End Wildlife Crime, hosted by ADM Capital Foundation, Central, Hong Kong SAR, China
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IMPORTANCE The root causes of violent crime in Black urban neighborhoods are structural, including residential racial segregation and concentrated poverty. Previous work suggests that simple and scalable place-based environmental interventions can overcome the legacies of neighborhood disinvestment and have implications for health broadly and crime specifically. OBJECTIVE To assess whether structural repairs to the homes of low-income owners are associated with a reduction in nearby crime. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS This cross-sectional study using difference-in-differences analysis included data from the City of Philadelphia Basic Systems Repair Program (BSRP) from January 1, 2006, through April 30, 2013. The unit of analysis was block faces (single street segments between 2 consecutive intersecting streets) with or without homes that received the BSRP intervention. The blocks of homes that received BSRP services were compared with the blocks of eligible homes that were still on the waiting list. Data were analyzed from December 1, 2019, to February 28, 2021. EXPOSURES The BSRP intervention includes a grant of up to $20 000 provided to low-income owners for structural repairs to electrical, plumbing, heating, and roofing damage. Eligible homeowners must meet income guidelines, which are set by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development and vary yearly. MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES The main outcome was police-reported crime across 7 major categories of violent and nonviolent crimes (homicide, assault, burglary, theft, robbery, disorderly conduct, and public drunkenness). RESULTS A total of 13 632 houses on 6732 block faces received the BSRP intervention. Owners of these homes had a mean (range) age of 56.5 (18-98) years, were predominantly Black (10 952 [78.6%]) or Latino (1658 [11.9%]) individuals, and had a mean monthly income of $993. These census tracts compared with those without BSRP intervention had a substantially larger Black population (49.5% vs 12.2%; |D| = 0.406) and higher unemployment rate (17.3% vs 9.3%; |D| = 0.357). The main regression analysis demonstrated that the addition to a block face of a property that received a BSRP intervention was associated with a 21.9% decrease in the expected count of total crime (incidence rate ratio [IRR], 0.78; 95% CI, 0.76-0.80; P < .001), 19.0% decrease in assault (IRR, 0.81; 95% CI, 0.79-0.84; P < .001), 22.6% decrease in robbery (IRR, 0.77; 95% CI, 0.75-0.80; P < .001), and 21.9% decrease in homicide (IRR, 0.78; 95% CI, 0.71-0.86; P < .001). When restricting the analysis to blocks with properties that had ever received a BSRP intervention, a total crime reduction of 25.4% was observed for each additional property (IRR, 0.75; 95% CI, 0.73-0.77; P < .001). A significant dose-dependent decrease in total crime was found such that the magnitude of association increased with higher numbers of homes participating in the BSRP on a block. CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE This study found that the BSRP intervention was associated with a modest but significant reduction in crime. These findings suggest that intentional and targeted financial investment in structural, scalable, and sustainable place-based interventions in neighborhoods that are still experiencing the lasting consequences of structural racism and segregation is a vital step toward achieving health equity.
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- Eugenia C. South
- Urban Health Lab, Department of Emergency
Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia
- Leonard Davis Institute, University of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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- Leonard Davis Institute, University of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- Department of Criminology, School of Arts and
Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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- Department of City and Regional Planning,
Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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Davis J, Casteel C, Menéndez CC. Impact of a crime prevention ordinance for small retail establishments. Am J Ind Med 2021; 64:488-495. [PMID: 33682159 PMCID: PMC11070224 DOI: 10.1002/ajim.23239] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2020] [Revised: 01/26/2021] [Accepted: 02/10/2021] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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BACKGROUND Ordinances requiring the implementation of robbery prevention measures have been enacted at the city level in many jurisdictions. We evaluated the impact of an ordinance requiring crime prevention measures on subsequent crime rates. METHODS Crime reports for robbery and aggravated assault from January 2006 through December 2015 were linked to randomly-selected convenience stores and small retail grocers in Houston (n = 293). Store characteristics and compliance with a list of safety measures were collected by surveyors in 2011. Generalized linear mixed models were used to compare rates of crime before and after the implementation of the ordinance. RESULTS Robberies decreased significantly after the ordinance went into effect (rate ratio = 0.38; 95% confidence interval 0.29-0.51). No individual safety measure was associated with decreased robbery rates. No similar decrease was observed for aggravated assault. CONCLUSIONS City ordinances mandating crime prevention measures can be effective. We could not parse out the effectiveness of individual elements, suggesting a comprehensive approach may be more effective.
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- Jonathan Davis
- The Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, College of Public Health, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
- University of Iowa Injury Prevention Research Center, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
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- The Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, College of Public Health, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
- University of Iowa Injury Prevention Research Center, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
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- Division of Safety Research, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
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Lyons VH, Floyd AS, Griffin E, Wang J, Hajat A, Carone M, Benkeser D, Whiteside LK, Haggerty KP, Rivara FP, Rowhani-Rahbar A. Helping individuals with firearm injuries: A cluster randomized trial. J Trauma Acute Care Surg 2021; 90:722-730. [PMID: 33405475 PMCID: PMC7979484 DOI: 10.1097/ta.0000000000003056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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BACKGROUND Patients with firearm injuries are at high risk of subsequent arrest and injury following hospital discharge. We sought to evaluate the effect of a 6-month joint hospital- and community-based low-intensity intervention on risk of arrest and injury among patients with firearm injuries. METHODS We conducted a cluster randomized controlled trial, enrolling patients with firearm injuries who received treatment at Harborview Medical Center, the level 1 trauma center in Seattle, Washington, were 18 years or older at the time of injury, spoke English, were able to provide consent and a method of contact, and lived in one of the five study counties. The intervention consisted of hospital-based motivational interviewing, followed by a 6-month community-based intervention, and multiagency support. The primary outcome was the risk of subsequent arrest. The main secondary outcome was the risk of death or subsequent injury requiring treatment in the emergency department or hospitalization. RESULTS Neither assignment to or engagement with the intervention, defined as having at least 1 contact point with the support specialist, was associated with risk of arrest at 2 years post-hospital discharge (relative risk for intervention assignment, 1.15; 95% confidence interval, 0.90-1.48; relative risk for intervention engagement, 1.07; 95% confidence interval, 0.74-2.19). There was similarly no association observed for subsequent injury. CONCLUSIONS This study represents one of the first randomized controlled trials of a joint hospital- and community-based intervention delivered exclusively among patients with firearm injuries. The intervention was not associated with changes in risk of arrest or injury, a finding most likely due to the low intensity of the program. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE Care management, level II.
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- Vivian H. Lyons
- Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
- Firearm Injury & Policy Research Program, Harborview Injury Prevention & Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
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- Firearm Injury & Policy Research Program, Harborview Injury Prevention & Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
- Alcohol & Drug Abuse Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
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- Firearm Injury & Policy Research Program, Harborview Injury Prevention & Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
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- Firearm Injury & Policy Research Program, Harborview Injury Prevention & Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
- Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
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- Firearm Injury & Policy Research Program, Harborview Injury Prevention & Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
- School of Social Work, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
- Social Development Research Group, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
- Firearm Injury & Policy Research Program, Harborview Injury Prevention & Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
- Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
- Firearm Injury & Policy Research Program, Harborview Injury Prevention & Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
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Anderson VR, Rubino LL, McKenna NC. Family-based Intervention for Legal System-involved Girls: A Mixed Methods Evaluation. Am J Community Psychol 2021; 67:35-49. [PMID: 33150983 DOI: 10.1002/ajcp.12475] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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The increased proportion of juvenile court-involved girls has spurred interest to implement and evaluate services to reduce girls' system involvement. The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of a family-based intervention by using a dominant sequential mixed methods evaluation approach. First, we examined quantitative data using a quasi-experimental design to determine whether the family-based intervention reduced recidivism among court-involved girls. Propensity score matching (PSM) was used to construct statistically equivalent groups to compare one-year recidivism outcomes for girls who received the court-run family-based intervention (n = 181) to a group of girls on probation who did not receive the intervention (n = 803). Qualitative interviews (n = 39) were conducted to contextualize the quantitative findings and highlighted the circumstances that family-focused interventions for court-involved girls. Girls who received the program had slightly lower recidivism rates following the intervention. The qualitative findings contextualized the quasi-experimental results by providing an explanation as to the girls' family circumstances and insights into the mechanisms of the intervention. Results highlighted the importance of family-focused interventions for juvenile justice-involved girls. These findings have practical and policy implications for the use interventions-beyond the individual level-with adjudicated girls and offer suggestions for ways to improve their effectiveness using a community psychology lens. In addition, this paper includes a discussion of evaluating of juvenile court programming from a community psychology perspective including strengths, challenges, and considerations for future work in this area.
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- Valerie R Anderson
- School of Criminal Justice, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- School of Criminal Justice, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- School of Criminal Justice, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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In view of the current severe situation of illegal land use in China, it is of great significance to explore the impact of the evolution and promotion of land law enforcement effectiveness, which will improve China's land law enforcement system and effectively curb illegal land use. This paper explains the changes and enhancements of the effectiveness of land law enforcement since the implementation of China's National Land Supervision System in terms of the deterrence, difficulty, and strength of land law enforcement, and explores the role of land law enforcement effectiveness in changing illegal land use behaviors from a theoretical level. Then, a corresponding empirical test was carried out using the provincial panel data of Mainland China from 2007 to 2016. The results show that the increase in land law enforcement deterrence and strength will help reduce the number of illegal land use cases, but it will drive the lawbreakers to "commit major cases in desperation", leading to the increase of the degree of illegal land use; and with the decrease of land law enforcement difficulty, the degree of illegal land use will be significantly reduced. At the end of this paper, several policy suggestions are put forward to effectively curb the illegal land use from the perspective of improving the land law enforcement system and enhancing the effectiveness of law enforcement.
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- Siyi Chen
- School of Geography and Ocean Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
- Key Laboratory of Coastal Zone Exploitation and Protection, Ministry of Natural Resources of China, Nanjing, China
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- School of Geography and Ocean Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
- Key Laboratory of Coastal Zone Exploitation and Protection, Ministry of Natural Resources of China, Nanjing, China
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- School of Geography and Ocean Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
- Key Laboratory of Coastal Zone Exploitation and Protection, Ministry of Natural Resources of China, Nanjing, China
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Bailey L, Harinam V, Ariel B. Victims, offenders and victim-offender overlaps of knife crime: A social network analysis approach using police records. PLoS One 2020; 15:e0242621. [PMID: 33306696 PMCID: PMC7732065 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0242621] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2020] [Accepted: 11/03/2020] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Knife crime is a source of concern for the police in England and Wales, however little published research exists on this crime type. Who are the offenders who use knives to commit crime, when and why? Who are their victims, and is there a victim-offender overlap? What is the social network formation for people who are exposed to knife crime? Using a multidimensional approach, our aim is to answer these questions about one of England and Wales’ largest jurisdictions: Thames Valley. We first provide a state-of-the-art narrative review of the knife crime literature, followed by an analysis of population-level data on central tendency and dispersion of knife crimes reported to the police (2015–2019), on offences, offenders, victims, victim-offender overlaps and gang-related assaults. Social network analysis was used to explore the formations of offender-victim networks. Our findings show that knife crime represents a small proportion of crime (1.86%) and is associated largely with violence offenses. 16–34 year-old white males are at greatest risk of being the victims, offenders or victim-offenders of knife crime, with similar relative risks between these three categories. Both knife offenders and victims are likely to have a criminal record. Knife crimes are usually not gang-related (less than 20%), and experienced mostly between strangers, with the altercation often a non-retaliatory ‘one-off event’. Even gang-related knife crimes do not follow ‘tit-for-tat’ relationships—except when the individuals involved have extensive offending histories and then are likely to retaliate instantaneously. We conclude that while rare, an incident of knife crime remains predicable, as a substantial ratio of offenders and victims of future knife crime can be found in police records. Prevention strategies should not be focused on gang-related criminals, but on either prolific violent offenders or repeat victims who are known to the police—and therefore more susceptible to knife crime exposure.
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- Laura Bailey
- Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Institute of Criminology, Faculty of Law, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
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Stalker KC, Brown ME, Evans CBR, Hibdon J, Telep C. Addressing Crime, Violence, and Other Determinants of Health through Community-Based Participatory Research and Implementation Science. Am J Community Psychol 2020; 66:392-403. [PMID: 32691885 DOI: 10.1002/ajcp.12438] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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In this paper, we describe the assessment and planning phase of the Thrive community-based initiative to reduce violence and address other determinants of health in a community in the Southwestern United States. Using community-based participatory research (CBPR) and an implementation science framework, we engaged residents and other key stakeholders as equal partners in the assessment and planning process. The Thrive assessment and planning phase involved collaboration among researchers, residents, law enforcement, nonprofit agencies, public health, local government, and other cross-sector partners. We used implementation science in order to examine the barriers and facilitators to addressing community health and safety, to assess the nature and scope of health and safety issues, to review existing solutions, to assess the acceptability and necessary adaptations of selected interventions, and to assess feasibility and sustainability of the initiative. Through interviews, focus groups, analysis of crime incident data, geomapping, and direct observations, our findings highlighted the presence of an open-air drug market, the high-stress nature of the community, concern for the lack of opportunities for youth, the lack of trust between residents and law enforcement, and a need to address the built environment to promote safety and well-being.
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- Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, USA
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- Arizona State University, Tucson, AZ, USA
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Pettinger T. British terrorism preemption: Subjectivity and disjuncture in Channel "de-radicalization" interventions. Br J Sociol 2020; 71:970-984. [PMID: 32285936 DOI: 10.1111/1468-4446.12754] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2019] [Revised: 03/12/2020] [Accepted: 03/12/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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This article examines Channel "de-radicalization" interventions, which take place on individuals suspected of having the potential to commit terrorist crimes. Situated within critical security studies, the article explores the British Prevent programme by utilizing primary interviews with hard-to-reach Channel mentors and senior Prevent officials. Following the work of anticipatory risk-governance scholarship, this research illuminates the three processes of risk-visibilization (how an individual becomes sufficiently "seen" as harbouring risk that they are offered Channel mentorship), risk-calculation (how practitioners negotiate supposed riskiness), and risk-knowing (how practitioners "know" risks they observe). It demonstrates how the practice of preemptive counter-terrorism is subsumed inherently by-even relies upon-subjectivity and human prejudice, and fundamental disagreements between practitioners. Through substantial empirical contribution on the phenomenon of Channel interventions, the discussion highlights ultimately that the algorithmic rationale of preemptive risk-spotting normalizes the suspicion of banal and everyday behaviors, precisely because such interventions are ultimately deployed through worst-case imaginations.
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Schick V, Roth I, Link A, Welch A. The nuanced relationship between adverse childhood experiences and recidivism risk scores among women leaving jail: A preliminary exploration. Crim Behav Ment Health 2020; 30:221-227. [PMID: 32830392 PMCID: PMC7554169 DOI: 10.1002/cbm.2162] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2018] [Revised: 12/15/2018] [Accepted: 06/16/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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BACKGROUND Women with histories of childhood trauma tend to score higher on recidivism risk/needs assessment tools, such as the Level of Service Inventory-Revised: Screening Version (LSI-R: SV). These may affect their chance of leaving custody, but risk scores may be inflated by reliance on additional items which reflect other fixed childhood events. AIMS We hypothesised that adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) would be related to immutable risk measures according to the LSI-R: SV, such as juvenile arrest history, rather than more mutable factors, such as criminal attitudes. METHODS Two interviewer-administered questionnaires-one about ACEs and one about criminogenic risk and needs-were given to a cohort of women just after release from jail. Phi coefficients were used to test for associations between ? ACE scale scores and scores on the risk tool-the LSI-R: SV. RESULTS ACE scale items were related to static risk item scores from the LSI-R: SV, but not to any of the dynamic risk items except psychological health. CONCLUSIONS Risk reduction is an important task in the criminal justice system, for which systematic risk assessment is an integral part of decision making. Self-reported experience of psychological health apart, only fixed historical variables were related to estimated recidivism risk. There was no relationship between the mutable constructs of attitudes towards crime or employment status and estimated risk. This raises the question of whether the risk of recidivism is increased when there is a background of childhood trauma. Implications for using risk reduction tools to inform the need for trauma-informed correctional care are discussed. Longitudinal research assessing recidivism is needed to test this further.
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- Vanessa Schick
- Management, Policy and Community Health, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas
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- School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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- Management, Policy and Community Health, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas
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- Texas Institute for Excellence in Mental Health at the Steve Hicks School of Social Work, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
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Whitney-Snel K, Valdez CE, Totaan J. "We break the cycle…": Motivations for prosocial advocacy among former gang members to end gang involvement. J Community Psychol 2020; 48:1929-1941. [PMID: 32500946 DOI: 10.1002/jcop.22390] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2020] [Revised: 05/16/2020] [Accepted: 05/18/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Gangs pose an extreme threat to at-risk individuals and disenfranchised communities. A unique insight into the gang life and a changing life narrative among former gang members may be assets in educating communities about systemic factors perpetuating gang activity. This grounded theory analysis examines motivations for joining and leaving gangs among 28 former gang members (age, M = 44; 87.5% male; 56.3% Hispanic or Latino) and explores motivations to improve societal outcomes via prosocial advocacy to end gang involvement. Narratives suggest a social-ecological system marked by adversity can inform motivations for joining and leaving gangs, and the potential of repurposing one's life into a social change agent. Findings indicate the changing perspective of former gang members can aid in deterring gang involvement if provided a platform to share their negative experiences of gang life and regrets for their actions in their communities to instigate societal change.
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- Department of Psychology, California State University, Monterey Bay, California
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- Department of Psychology, California State University, Monterey Bay, California
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Machoski E, de Araujo JM. Corruption in public health and its effects on the economic growth of Brazilian municipalities. Eur J Health Econ 2020; 21:669-687. [PMID: 32065302 DOI: 10.1007/s10198-020-01162-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2019] [Accepted: 01/23/2020] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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This study's objective is to estimate the effects of corruption in the public health sector on the economic growth of Brazilian municipalities. To build three corruption measures, data from audits conducted by the office of the comptroller general (Controladoria Geral da Uniao, CGU henceforth) in 2009 and 2010 in the health and sanitation sectors were used. Two analysis steps were performed. The first verified the relationship between the performance of the audit and the economic growth rate of the municipalities, using the Ordinary Least Squares (OLS); the second analyses the effects of corruption on public health on the economic growth of the audited municipalities, using OLS and Quantile Regressions. First, in a sample of 5547 municipalities, the evidence indicates that being audited is related to slower economic growth. From this, when the sample is restricted to the 180 municipalities audited in 2009 and the corruption variables constructed from the audit reports conducted in the year, the results indicate negative effects of corruption on economic growth. The results show that in the larger quantiles of economic growth, the adverse effects of corruption are felt more significantly. Both methods tested with the three corruption variables created provide similar evidence, showing robustness of results. Therefore, the study allowed us to conclude that corruption in the public health sector hampered the economic growth of Brazilian municipalities, which is a delayed effect: Corruption in 2009 had negative effects on growth in 2011.
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Serious threats to child safety are infrequent and unpredictable but can lead to serious injury and death. To stay safe, children must identify and avoid contact with a safety threat, escape from it, and report it to an adult so the adult can remove the threat. Research shows that active learning approaches are effective for teaching children to engage in these safety skills. Passive learning approaches are not effective. Active learning approaches require children to practice the skills in the presence of simulated threats with feedback to reinforce correct responses and promote generalization of skills to the natural environment.
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- Raymond G Miltenberger
- Department of Child and Family Studies, University of South Florida, MHC2113A, Tampa, FL 33612, USA.
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Kim L. Cybercrime, ransomware, and the informatics nurse. Nurs Manag (Harrow) 2020; 51:10-12. [PMID: 32341273 DOI: 10.1097/01.numa.0000659448.63050.f1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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- Lee Kim
- Lee Kim is the director of privacy and security at the Health Information and Management Systems Society in Arlington, Va
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Masho SW, Zirkle KW, Wheeler DC, Sullivan T, Farrell AD. Spatial Analysis of the Impact of a School-Level Youth Violence Prevention Program on Violent Crime Incidents in the Community. Prev Sci 2020; 20:521-531. [PMID: 30719615 DOI: 10.1007/s11121-019-0990-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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This study investigated the effect of a school-based violence prevention program on community rates of violence for youth aged 10 to 18 in three urban communities with high rates of crime and poverty. We evaluated the impact of the Olweus Bully Prevention Program (OBPP) combined with a family intervention using a multiple baseline design in which we randomized the order and timing of intervention activities across three schools. Outcomes were police reports of violent crime incidents involving offenders aged 10 to 18 years (N = 2859 incidents) across a 6-year period. We used Bayesian hierarchical regression modeling to estimate the reduction of youth violence in the census blocks of the intervention middle school zones. Models controlled for percent female head-of-household, median household income, and percent renter-occupied housing units. Block groups within the attendance zones of schools receiving the intervention had a reduced risk of violence compared with those that did not (relative risk = 0.83, 95% credible interval = 0.71, 0.99). Our findings suggest that the school-level intervention was associated with a significant reduction in community-level youth violence. Public health professionals, program planners, and policy-makers should be aware of the potential community-wide benefit of school-level interventions.
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- Saba W Masho
- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Family Medicine and Population Health, School of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA
- Clark Hill Institute for Positive Youth Development, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, School of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, VCU, P.O. Box 980032, Richmond, VA, 23298-0212, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, School of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, VCU, P.O. Box 980032, Richmond, VA, 23298-0212, USA.
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- Clark Hill Institute for Positive Youth Development, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA
- Department of Psychology, College of Humanities, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA
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- Clark Hill Institute for Positive Youth Development, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA
- Department of Psychology, College of Humanities, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA
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Pang L, Liu H, Chen Y, Miao J. Real-time Concealed Object Detection from Passive Millimeter Wave Images Based on the YOLOv3 Algorithm. Sensors (Basel) 2020; 20:E1678. [PMID: 32192222 PMCID: PMC7147325 DOI: 10.3390/s20061678] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2020] [Revised: 03/13/2020] [Accepted: 03/14/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The detection of objects concealed under people's clothing is a very challenging task, which has crucial applications for security. When testing the human body for metal contraband, the concealed targets are usually small in size and are required to be detected within a few seconds. Focusing on weapon detection, this paper proposes using a real-time detection method for detecting concealed metallic weapons on the human body applied to passive millimeter wave (PMMW) imagery based on the You Only Look Once (YOLO) algorithm, YOLOv3, and a small sample dataset. The experimental results from YOLOv3-13, YOLOv3-53, and Single Shot MultiBox Detector (SSD) algorithm, SSD-VGG16, are compared ultimately, using the same PMMW dataset. For the perspective of detection accuracy, detection speed, and computation resource, it shows that the YOLOv3-53 model had a detection speed of 36 frames per second (FPS) and a mean average precision (mAP) of 95% on a GPU-1080Ti computer, more effective and feasible for the real-time detection of weapon contraband on human body for PMMW images, even with small sample data.
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- Lei Pang
- School of Geomatics and Urban Spatial Informatics, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Beijing 100044, China; (L.P.); (Y.C.)
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- School of Geomatics and Urban Spatial Informatics, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Beijing 100044, China; (L.P.); (Y.C.)
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- School of Geomatics and Urban Spatial Informatics, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Beijing 100044, China; (L.P.); (Y.C.)
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- School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China;
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Kim L. Cybercrime, ransomware, and the role of the informatics nurse. Nursing 2020; 50:63-65. [PMID: 32068710 DOI: 10.1097/01.nurse.0000654064.67531.c5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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- Lee Kim
- Lee Kim is the director of privacy and security at HIMSS in Arlington, Va
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Rupp LA, Zimmerman MA, Sly KW, Reischl TM, Thulin EJ, Wyatt TA, Stock JJP. Community-Engaged Neighborhood Revitalization and Empowerment: Busy Streets Theory in Action. Am J Community Psychol 2020; 65:90-106. [PMID: 31313329 DOI: 10.1002/ajcp.12358] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Busy streets theory predicts that engaging residents in physical revitalization of neighborhoods will facilitate community empowerment through the development of sense of community, social cohesion, collective efficacy, social capital, and behavioral action. Establishing safe environments fosters positive street activity, which reinforces neighborhood social relationships. A community-engaged approach to crime prevention through environmental design (CE-CPTED) is one promising approach to creating busy streets because it engages residents in collaborative interactions to promote safer environments. Yet, few researchers have studied how CE-CPTED may be associated with busy streets. We interviewed 18 residents and stakeholders implementing CE-CPTED in Flint, Michigan. We studied three neighborhoods with different levels of resident control over CE-CPTED. Participants described how CE-CPTED implementation affected their neighborhood. Participants from all three neighborhoods reported that CE-CPTED was associated with positive street activity, sense of community, and collective efficacy. Participants from neighborhoods with higher resident control of CE-CPTED reported more social capital and behavioral action than those from neighborhoods with less resident control. Our findings support busy streets theory: Community engagement in neighborhood improvement enhanced community empowerment. CE-CPTED that combines physical revitalization with resident engagement and control creates a potent synergy for promoting safe and healthy neighborhoods.
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Murray J, Atilola O. Determinants of youth crime in low-income and middle-income countries. Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2020; 4:96-98. [PMID: 31956017 DOI: 10.1016/s2352-4642(19)30378-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2019] [Revised: 10/18/2019] [Accepted: 10/21/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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- Joseph Murray
- Postgraduate Program in Epidemiology, Federal University of Pelotas, Pelotas 96010-610, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
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- College of Medicine, Lagos State University, Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria
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In this article, I draw on data derived from an ethnographic field study of covert policing in the United Kingdom to demonstrate that the deployment of covert surveillance has become normalized, both in policing thought and operational practice. In a break with earlier patterns, the methods of covert surveillance are used extensively and are no longer regarded as a tactic of last resort. Covert policing is well anchored within organizational arrangements, empowered by a series of internal rationales mobilized to justify the expansion of covert tactics over and above more traditional, overt forms. The building of intrusive and exceptional policing practices within mundane contexts, I argue, is one of the ways the police have adapted to a broader policing environment characterized by public scepticism and distrust. Policing relies on the invisibility and low profile that comes with covert work, in order to govern contemporary concerns of crime and insecurity without the conflicts which can accompany - and trouble - overt policing practices. As mainstream policing becomes an increasingly extroverted enterprise, introverted forms of policing have come to the fore.
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- Bethan Loftus
- School of History, Philosophy and Social Sciences, Bangor University
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Although risk in the criminal justice field has been subject to intensive international debate, it has not incorporated China and its growing field of community corrections. This article assesses the current initiative of developing actuarial assessment tools in China and contrasts this with its use in the correctional context. There is certainly a rift in the understanding of risk, particularly, between the risk factors in Western risk assessment tools, the political construction of risk, and the local practitioners' embrace of correctional work. However, this article suggests that under the current mode of risk governance in China, actuarial assessment tools promoted in the correctional field simply add another layer of social control. The article highlights the importance of political and social rationalities and environments behind the construction of risk.
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- Xiaoyu Yuan
- 1 KoGuan School of Law, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
- 2 School of Criminal Justice, Shanghai University of Political Science and Law, Shanghai, China
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Bijlsma J, Kooijmans T, de Jong F, Meynen G. Legal insanity and risk: An international perspective on the justification of indeterminate preventive commitment. Int J Law Psychiatry 2019; 66:101462. [PMID: 31706396 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijlp.2019.101462] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2019] [Revised: 06/11/2019] [Accepted: 06/25/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Modern legal systems typically link the insanity or diminished responsibility of an offender for a crime committed in the past to his future dangerousness. This nexus serves across legal systems as a justification for the indeterminate commitment of the offender with diminished or no criminal responsibility. Conceptually, however, insanity and risk are not related legal issues. Moreover, empirical research suggests that there is only a weak link between insanity, diminished responsibility and mental illness on the one hand and risk of recidivism on the other. Other risk factors seem to be more important. The inference of risk from insanity or diminished responsibility that lies at the heart of the indeterminate commitment of mentally disordered offenders is therefore problematic. This should lead to a reconsideration of the preconditions for indeterminate commitment of mentally disordered defendants.
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- J Bijlsma
- Utrecht University, Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology, Newtonlaan 231, 3584 BH, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
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- Tilburg University, Tilburg Law School, Department of Criminal Law, PO Box 90153, 5000 LE, Tilburg, the Netherlands.
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- Utrecht University, Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology, Newtonlaan 231, 3584 BH, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
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- Utrecht University, Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology, Newtonlaan 231, 3584 BH, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
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Bainbridge L. Transferring 24/7 sobriety from South Dakota to South London: the case of MOPAC's Alcohol Abstinence Monitoring Requirement Pilot. Addiction 2019; 114:1696-1705. [PMID: 30851219 PMCID: PMC6767369 DOI: 10.1111/add.14609] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2018] [Revised: 08/01/2018] [Accepted: 03/04/2019] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS During the past three decades an expansive literature has emerged that is dedicated to analysing the processes of policy transfer. One neglected pathway involves subnational agents emulating crime control innovations that have emerged in subnational jurisdictions of other nations. This paper presents the case of the London Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime's (MOPAC) Alcohol Abstinence Monitoring Requirement (AAMR) Pilot to examine the multi-level factors that facilitate and/or constrain international-subnational crime and justice policy transfer. METHODS A qualitative case study design reconstructed the (in)formal events that led to components of the South Dakota 24/7 Sobriety Project (USA) being either abandoned or integrated into MOPAC's AAMR Pilot. Evidence is drawn from elite interviews and documentary materials. RESULTS A series of inter/transnational-, macro-domestic-, meso- and micro-level factors enabled and/or obstructed processes of complete international-subnational policy transfer. Exclusion of domestic violence perpetrators from the London Pilot was fuelled by interest-group hostility and mobilization. Use of alcohol tags rather than breathalysers to monitor compliance was a result of political-economic constraints, concern surrounding intrusion, technological innovation and policy-orientated learning. The decision to omit an 'offender pays' funding mechanism was a consequence of legal incompatibility and civil service reluctance, while 'flash incarceration' for breach was not implemented due to European policy harmonization. CONCLUSIONS The London Alcohol Abstinence Monitoring Requirement Pilot was a policy 'synthesis' that combined ideas, goals, vocabulary, principles, technology and practices from the South Dakota model with the existing English and Welsh criminal justice framework. Structural factors and the actions of particular agents limited the extent to which policy transfer occurred.
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- Laura Bainbridge
- Department of Social PolicyLondon School of Economics and Political ScienceLondonUK
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Traguetto J, de Aquino Guimaraes T. Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Restorative Justice in the United States: The Process of Institutionalization and the Roles of Judges. Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol 2019; 63:1971-1989. [PMID: 30829089 DOI: 10.1177/0306624x19833528] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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The legal systems and the judiciary in many countries have been changed and reformed, with the aim of dispensing justice quicker and more effectively. Some reforms have tried a less adversarial approach to resolving legal disputes, for example, Therapeutic Jurisprudence (TJ) and Restorative Justice (RJ). The objective of this article is to describe how institutionalized these movements are in the United States and the roles played by judges in this process. The data collection involved document analysis, observation of court-hearings, and interviews with 13 judges from several judicial areas involved in TJ and/or RJ judicial proceedings in the United States. Data analysis was undertaken using content analysis and the software NVivo. The results provide evidence that (a) these movements are in a process of divergent change implementation; (b) judges who engage with these approaches act as institutional entrepreneurs; and (c) the judges interviewed can be classified into four roles that are complementary in the promotion of TJ/RJ: promoter, author, convener, and maintainer.
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Interpol leads crackdown on wildlife trafficking. Vet Rec 2019; 185:98-9. [PMID: 31346100 DOI: 10.1136/vr.l4853] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Georgina Mills reports on recent work to tackle global wildlife crime.
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Financial and legal entities (e.g. banks, casinos, notaries etc.) have to report money laundering suspicions. Countries’ engagement in fighting money laundering is evaluated–among others–with statistics on how often these suspicions are reported. Lack of compliance can result in economically harmful blacklisting. Nevertheless, these blacklists repeatedly become empty–in what is known as the emptying blacklist paradox. We develop a principal-agent model with intermediate agents and show that non-harmonized statistics can lead to strategic reporting to avoid blacklisting, and explain the emptying blacklist paradox. We recommend the harmonization of the standards to report suspicion of money laundering.
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- Joras Ferwerda
- Utrecht University School of Economics, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Utrecht University School of Governance, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Utrecht University School of Economics, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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