Academic Articles & Research Papers

Crimean-congo haemorrhagic fever virus in ticks and small ruminants in western Iran: epidemiological insights and genotyping.

The "Information Paradox" in crime prevention: how spatial context and age moderate the impact of safety advisories on residents' perception of safety.

Impact of drug decriminalization and recriminalization on drug-related crime and health outcomes in British Columbia: a population-level time-series analysis.

Reconstruction-aware urban crime analytics from incomplete judicial records using heterogeneous graph temporal imputation.

Co-Endemic Zoonoses, Divergent Dynamics: A Comparative Spatiotemporal Analysis of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever and Brucellosis with Implications for Integrated Surveillance.

Forensic applications of the skin microbiome: a structured narrative review of donor association, contact inference, and crime-scene reconstruction.

Human epidemiological data of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever, 2014-2023: scoping review over one decade.

An integrated One Health methodology to study Rift Valley fever, Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever and brucellosis at the human-livestock-wildlife interface in Uganda.

The Relationship between Near-Repeat Street Robbery and the Environment: Evidence from Malmö, Sweden

Near-repeat crime refers to a pattern whereby one crime event is soon followed by a similar crime event at a nearby location. Existing research on near-repeat crime patterns is inconclusive about where near-repeat patterns emerge and which ...

Crime and Public Policy

1. Introduction, James Q. Wilson and Joan Petersilia 2. Crime in International Perspective, James P. Lynch and William Alex Pridemore 3. Crime and Biology, Terrie E. Moffitt, Stephen Ross, and Adrian Raine 4. Juvenile Crime and Juvenile Jus...

Ethics and Public Policy

Ethics and Public Policy: A Philosophical Inquiry, second edition subjects important and controversial areas of public policy to philosophical scrutiny. Jonathan Wolff, a renowned philosopher and veteran of many public committees, introduce...

Cultural Cognition and Public Policy

Our concern in this Essay is to explain the epistemic origins of political conflict. Citizens who agree that the proper object of law is to secure society's material well-being are still likely to disagree-intensely-about what policies will...

American Public Policy: An Introduction

1. Public Policy: An Introduction. 2. Contexts of Public Policy. 3. The Economy: Changing Government-Business Relationships. 4. Economic Issues: Taxing, Spending, and Budgeting. 5. Energy and Environmental Policies: Policy Instability. 6. C...

Knowledge and Public Policy

This book addresses the question of what it takes to develop social indicators that genuinely influence important public decisions. It looks historically at the processes of creating and using three important social indicators in the United...

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Crime and Public Policy

Abstract This introduction to the book starts by defining crime. It explains that cross-national agreement about what should and should not be considered as criminal is narrower than is sometimes recognized. Examples are given of various ac...

Urban Fear, Criminality and the Erosion of Intangible Cultural Access in Machala: A Critical Qualitative Content Analysis of Ecuadorian National Digital Press

This article examines how the Ecuadorian national digital press has represented the relationship between criminal violence, declining mobility, tourism contraction, and the erosion of intangible cultural access in Machala, Puerto Bolívar, a...

The Relationship of Youth Family Values with Hedonism and Eudemonia

Introduction. A notable trend in modern society is the transformation of family institution, which has long been considered the most important social and personal value. The change of attitudes of young people towards marriage in Russia is ...

Geographic Profiling

As any police officer who has ever walked a beat or worked a crime scene knows, the street has its hot spots, patterns, and rhythms: drug dealers work their markets, prostitutes stroll their favorite corners, and burglars hit their favorite...

The archaeology of death and burial

The archaeology of death and burial is central to our attempts to understand vanished societies. Through the remains of funerary rituals we learn not only about prehistoric people's attitudes toward death and the afterlife but also about th...