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reform on women's arrests for property crime, the type of crime women are most likely to commit and that welfare reform has … been shown to affect. We found that women's property crime arrest rates declined over the age span; that welfare reform led … to an overall reduction in adult women's property crime arrests of about 4%, with the strongest effects for women ages 25 …
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-collar crime. Women's financial victimization was a common theme of the popular press, economic journals and fiction. These …In Victorian society, women of the middle class were particularly vulnerable to white-collar crimes. Denied … opportunities to earn their own living, single women were especially dependent on invested capital. Women, in fact, made up a …
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reform on women's arrests for property crime, the type of crime women are most likely to commit and that welfare reform has … been shown to affect. We found that women's property crime arrest rates declined over the age span; that welfare reform led … to an overall reduction in adult women's property crime arrests of about 4%, with the strongest effects for women ages 25 …
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Although women?s police centers have been gaining popularity as a measure to address domestic violence, to date no … been done. This paper estimates the effects of women?s police stations in Brazil on female homicides, as a measure of the … most severe form of domestic violence. Given that a high fraction of female deaths among women ages 15 to 49 years can be …
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engage "women's rights" - focusing on sexual suffering and victimization -- to frame interventions, attract media and …
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sentencing system to the taxpayer. The fact that women behave differently when it comes to crime and gender difference in …Most criminal acts are performed by men. Moreover, with only a hint of exaggeration, women never commit the most …. Further, women re-offend less frequently and imprisoning women normally has a more harmful effect on their dependents than …
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We examine the impact of establishing women police stations (WPS) on reporting of gender- based violence. Using … administrative crime data and exploiting staggered implementation across Indian cities, we find that the opening of WPS is associated … with an increase in police reports of crimes against women of 29 percent, a result driven by domestic violence. This …
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We examine the impact of establishing women police stations (WPS) on reporting of gender-based violence. Using … administrative crime data and exploiting staggered implementation across Indian cities, we find that the opening of WPS is associated … with an increase in police reports of crimes against women of 29 percent, a result driven by domestic violence. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012499651