Short-term association between ambient temperature and homicide in South Africa: a case-crossover study - Gates A, Klein M, Acquaotta F, Garland RM, Scovronick N.
BACKGROUND: Criminology research has traditionally investigated sociodemographic predictors of crime, such as sex, race, age, and socioeconomic status. However, evidence suggests that short-term fluctuations in crime often vary more than long-term trends, ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - December 19, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Environmental Issues, Climate, Geophysics Source Type: news
What is CPTED? Reconnecting theory with application in the words of users and abusers - Armitage R, Monchuk L.
Crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) represents a multifaceted approach to crime reduction that draws upon theories from environmental criminology, architecture and urban design and requires the commitment of agencies as diverse as police,... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - December 14, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Commentary Source Type: news
Advancing knowledge about replication in criminology - Farrington DP, L ösel F, Boruch RF, Gottfredson DC, Mazerolle L, Sherman LW, Weisburd D.
This article summarizes key points made in a session at the American Society of Criminology meeting in Philadelphia in November 2017, entitled "The replication issue in science and its relevance for criminology", organized by Friedrich L ösel and Robert F.... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - December 4, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Research Methods, Surveillance and Codes, Models Source Type: news
Measurement bias in self-reports of offending: a systematic review of experiments - Gomes HS, Farrington DP, Maia, Krohn MD.
OBJECTIVEsSelf-reported offending is one of the primary measurement methods in criminology. In this article, we aimed to systematically review the experimental evidence regarding measurement bias in self-reports of offending.METHODSWe carried out a... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - December 4, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Jurisprudence, Laws, Legislation, Policies, Rules Source Type: news
Making a difference - or not: an evaluation of the effects of failing to evaluate (editorial) - Krohn MD.
I am two months short of the 45th anniversary of attending my first professional criminology conference.. I recall being at the American Society of Criminology meeting in 1973 in an auditorium at John Jay College listening to a presentation that made sever... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - November 20, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Commentary Source Type: news
Winning the ‘No Food Loss’ Battle: The Case of Japan
Veena S. Kulkarni, PhD is Associate Professor, Department of Criminology, Sociology and Geography, Arkansas State University, USABy Veena S. KulkarniARKANSAS, Nov 20 2019 (IPS) Humankind since almost the time that there is recorded history has grappled with the question of ‘how many is too many?’ The response is expectedly complex as it varies across time and space. The pace of population growth was slow till about approximately 250 years or so. It is only since the middle of the eighteenth century that there has been a palpable acceleration in population growth.
Veena S. KulkarniThe intervals in which we have added a...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - November 20, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Veena Kulkarni Tags: Aid Economy & Trade Education Environment Food & Agriculture Food Sustainability Global Headlines Health Natural Resources Population Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations Trade & Investment Barilla Center for Food and Nutrit Source Type: news
Urban park crime: neighborhood context and park features - Taylor RB, Haberman CP, Groff ER.
This work examined the determinants of park crime, drawing together into one conceptual frame three threads from community criminology - community demographic structural crime determinants; community cultural crime determinants, focusing specifically on so... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - November 16, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Community-Based Prevention Source Type: news
Are impulsive adolescents differentially vulnerable to normative or situational peer influences? A partial replication study - De Buck A, Pauwels LJR.
Ample research in criminology investigates the role of deviant peers in the development of adolescent offending. Different theoretical explanations account for distinct peer influences. The socialization perspective argues that deviant peers influence beha... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - November 13, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Mental health diagnoses of youth commercial sex exploitation victims: an analysis within an adjudicated delinquent sample - Chapple CL, Crawford BL.
Existing criminology and victimization research suggests that youth victims of commercial sex often have mental health issues stemming from their sex victimization and/or emerging out of their long histories of family abuse, neglect and family conflict. Ho... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - November 9, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
How does print media describe gang members? Analysis of newspaper reports and policy implications - Hu X, Dittmann L.
Gang-related research is one of the hottest topics in criminology and criminal justice. However, neither official institutions nor mass media pay much attention to information gathered from academic research. The current study uses qualitative methods to e... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - November 2, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Fieldwork protocol as a safety inventory tool in public places - Ceccato V.
This study reports on experiences using fieldwork protocols (FPs) in guiding the inventory of safety conditions in public places. Relying on theories of environmental criminology, situational crime prevention, and crime prevention through environmental des... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - October 28, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Jurisprudence, Laws, Legislation, Policies, Rules Source Type: news
Stories of injustice: towards a narrative victimology - Pemberton A, Mulder E, Aarten PGM.
Narrative has become a popular approach in a number of disciplines, including, recently, that of criminology. In this paper, we contend that the study of crime and harm would benefit from a complementary yet distinct perspective of narrative victimology. W... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - October 28, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Jurisprudence, Laws, Legislation, Policies, Rules Source Type: news
Victim age and capital sentencing outcomes in North Carolina (1977-2009) - Marier CJ, Cochran JK, Smith MD, Fogel SJ, Bjerregaard B.
Age is prominent among theories of criminology and victimology. It is less conspicuous in punishment theory, despite its emphasis in retributive theory and lawmaking. The present study evaluated competing 'years of life lost' and 'vulnerable victim' hypoth... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - October 28, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Jurisprudence, Laws, Legislation, Policies, Rules Source Type: news
Systemic error: measuring gender in criminological research - Valcore JL, Pfeffer R.
This study examines how sex and gender are measured and operationalized in studies on criminology and criminal justice (CCJ) through content analysis of peer-reviewed journals. Despite that they are distinct and not always parallel, the terms sex and gende... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - October 28, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Research Methods, Surveillance and Codes, Models Source Type: news
Understanding the motives behind male filicides to better intervene - Leveillee S, Doyon L.
Introduction
The present study focuses on gaining an understanding of the motives of men who commit a filicide. Motivation is a concept at the crossroads of psychology and criminology that allows for a better understanding of filicide.
Objective
On one... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - October 28, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Violence and Weapons Issues Source Type: news
