Socio-spatial violence prevention: Inhibiting violence in Caracas, Venezuela through spatial planning

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Spatial and temporal patterns in civil violence: Guatemala, 1977-1986.

Civil violence is a complex and often horrific phenomenon whose characteristics have varied by era, setting, and circumstance. Its objective analysis has rarely been feasible at spatial and temporal scales great enough and resolutions fine enough to reveal patterns useful in prevention, intervention, or adjudication. An extraordinary data set simultaneously meeting scale and resolution criteria...

Violence in public transportation: an approach based on spatial analysis

OBJECTIVE To carry out a spatial analysis of the occurrence of acts of violence (specifically robberies) in public transportation, identifying the regions of greater incidence, using geostatistics, and possible causes with the aid of a multicriteria analysis in the Geographic Information System. METHODS The unit of analysis is the traffic analysis zone of the survey named Origem-Destino, carr...

Blueprints for Violence Prevention

Through the Blueprints for Violence Prevention Initiative, OJJDP provides information to communities on a broad array of violence prevention and intervention programs that have been proven to be effective. This Bulletin describes the demanding criteria established by the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence to designate model Blueprints programs and the activities of the 11 programs ...

Violence Prevention Today

As noted in the report of the National Committee on Violence, Violence: Directions for Australia (1990, Australian Institute of Criminology, Canberra, p. 42), there has been little research on the issue of bias-related violence, particularly violence based on sexual preference. However, Violence against Lesbians and Gay Men indicates the prevalence of this worrying form of violence and suggests...