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In the last decade, models of rational choice have chimed into the discussion on racial profiling, the use of race in stop and search decisions of the police. The models describe the behavior of motorists and the police and provide empirical tests to assess the question whether the police...
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Bullying is a widespread social phenomenon. We show that both children who are being bullied and children who bully suffer in terms of long-term outcomes. We rely on rich survey and register-based data for children born in a region of Denmark during 1990-1992, which allows us to carefully...
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This article examined how police- community partnership is visible in Nigeria and solves the problem of crime in … home the menace of crime prevention and detection by focusing on neighborhood groups been the panacea to reducing crime in … police and the community was that the police are seen as belonging to the community in this wise crime will be brought to its …
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Due to the large social costs of juvenile crime, policymakers have long been concerned about its causes. In the 2009 …
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Policymakers have long been concerned about the large social costs of juvenile crime. Detecting the causes of juvenile … crime is an important educational policy concern as many of these crimes happen during the school day. In the 2009–10 school …
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Gains from government crime-reducing programs are not always visible to the average citizen. The media overexpose crime … events, but the absence of crime rarely makes the news, increasing the risk that citizen may have inaccurate perceptions of … objective crime trends could have on such perceptions. The results show that information improves perceptions of safety and …
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in the severity of judicial punishment imposed on Colombian adolescents, crime rates in Colombian municipalities … influence adolescents¿ decisions in crime participation and school attendance. The study finds that, after an exogenous decrease …
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¿Qué determina la sensación de inseguridad frente al delito y qué podemos hacer al respecto? En este estudio se propone y pone a prueba un modelo correlacional que combina diferentes determinantes teóricos de la inseguridad y el miedo al crimen. La prueba se realiza en México y en dos...
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Due to the large social costs of juvenile crime, policymakers have long been concerned about its causes. In the 2009 …
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contributions for the original citizens. As an empirical example, we employ Germany?s crime statistic in order to assess the …
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