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impoverished neighborhood, I examine the everyday violence and the responses of the population. Due to the deficient infrastructure …
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Empirical evidence reveals that unemployment tends to increase property crime but that it has no effect on violent crime. To explain these facts, we examine a model of criminal gangs and suggest that there is a substitution effect between property crime and violent crime at work. In the model,...
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Empirical evidence reveals that unemployment tends to increase property crime but that it has no effect on violent crime. To explain these facts, we examine a model of criminal gangs and suggest that there is a substitution effect between property crime and violent crime at work. In the model,...
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Theories of violence have traditionally predicted that bystanders are less likely to intervene when in the presence of … others than when alone. We re-examine this prediction using data from 42 episodes of public violence in quot …-transition diagrams. Analyses revealed that bystanders play a key role in shaping the trajectory of violence. They contributed more de …
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lockdowns on the incidence of domestic violence (DV) have reported relatively modest effects. This may reflect a low reporting …
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