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than half of U.S. states have had their corrections budgets reduced in recent years. Fortunately, crime has remained fairly … fuel crime rates. Yet the budget cuts are hardly without consequence. Correctional agencies have adapted with a variety of … practice. The complex relationship between crime rates, sentencing practices, and recidivism is explored, as is that between …
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total crime and four other subcategories: breaking and entering, automobile-related crime, violent crime, and drug …-related crime. The estimates indicate that there is no effect of BRACs on criminal activity surrounding the base. We also confirm … existing findings in the literature on the determinants of crime. -- Armed forces ; BRAC ; deviant behavior ; geographic …
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total crime and four other subcategories: breaking and entering, automobile-related crime, violent crime, and drug …-related crime. The estimates indicate that there is no effect of BRACs on criminal activity surrounding the base. We also confirm … existing findings in the literature on the determinants of crime …
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This document analyzes the existing relationship between the armed conflict and the different manifestations of violence and criminal activity. For this purpose, a historical review on the internal conflicts and civil wars in Colombia since the XIX Century is presented, with emphasis on the...
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Why have some Mexican states proceeded faster than others in a revolutionary transformation in criminal procedure? Contributing an original reform index of criminal procedure reform across Mexico’s 32 states from 2002-2011 and building on existing research on policy diffusion, this paper...
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the likelihood of property and violent crime, arrest, gang membership, trouble with police, and punishment under the …Several high-profile news stories have linked post-September 11 (9/11) combat service to violent crime among veterans … of modern warfare on crime. Using data from two national surveys and a unified framework, we find consistent evidence …
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the likelihood of property and violent crime, arrest, gang membership, trouble with police, and punishment under the …Several high-profile news stories have linked post-September 11 (9/11) combat service to violent crime among veterans … of modern warfare on crime. Using data from two national surveys and a unified framework, we find consistent evidence …
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waves of organized crime, internal tensions, breakdowns in social order, crime legislation, alternation in power, social …
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likelihood of property and violent crime, arrest, gang membership, trouble with police, and punishment under the Uniform Code of …Several high-profile news stories have linked post-September 11 (9/11) combat service to violent crime among veterans … of modern warfare on crime.Using data from two national surveys and a unified framework, we find consistent evidence that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012832588
-economic variables. We show that fear of crime, criminal victimization and the average regionally perceived fear of crime significantly …Using information on life satisfaction and crime from the European Social Survey, we apply the life satisfaction … approach (LSA) to determine the relationship between subjective well-being (SWB), income, victimization experience, fear of …
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