Municipal fire departments responded to approximately 53,000 intentionally-set fires annually from 2003 to 2007, according to National Fire Protection Association figures. A disproportionate amount of these fires occur in spatio-temporal clusters, making them predictable and, perhaps, preventable. The objective of this research is to evaluate how the aggregation of data across space and target ...

INTRODUCTION Although per capita crime has generally fallen over the period which coincides with the obesity epidemic, it has not fallen uniformly across communities. It also has not fallen enough to allay fears on the part of parents. Over the past 30 years, technological changes have made the indoor alternatives to playing outside, where children are more vulnerable to criminal activity, more...

I investigated the influence of a juvenile defendant’s socioeconomic status (SES) on mock jurors’ perceptions of a juvenile tried in adult court. In line with the similarity-leniency hypothesis and stereotypes regarding the relationship between poverty and crime, I predicted that the low SES defendant would be found guilty more often and receive more punitive case judgments than a middle or hig...

Traditional crime management strategies have done little to reduce the high levels of violent crime in Jamaica. The paper analyses offender travel patterns, arguing that this knowledge presents opportunities for the prevention of specific crimes or the control of crimes in specific areas. Using official statistics on crime, supported by the testimonies of males in a depressed inner city communi...

To enhance international competitiveness through the protection of cutting-edge industrial technology, it is essential to establish the policy for strengthening ability to develop industrial security technology and raising international competitiveness. In this study we investigated and analyzed not only the ecumenic trend but also the present condition, then we executed the deduction of the in...

author and an indeterminate biographical context. The same cannot be said of Mateo Alemán or of Francisco de Quevedo, in the 20.1 (2000) Imitation and the Growth of the Novel 103 case of La vida del buscón (translated by Alpert as The Swindler). Alemán and Quevedo—each in his own way—become rivals of their narrator/protagonists, by putting words into their mouths and by writing misfortune into ...

In one of Ōtomo Katsuhiro’s interviews held during the sponsoring events for Metropolis (2001) he stated that, characters aside, the city itself was a driving force behind his initial concept. Ōtomo wanted a city that felt “alive“ on the one hand, but that he could gleefully “completely destroy“ on the other. Although the artist is neither a stranger to “exploding cities“ in a figurative (i. e....

Since 2014, viral images of Black people being killed at the hands police—Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Breonna Taylor, and many, many others—have convinced much public that American criminal legal system is broken. In summer 2020, nationwide protests against police racism violence in wake George Floyd’s murder were, according to some analysts, largest social movement history United States.2 Acti...

522 Meehl: Law and the Fireside Inductions THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE FIRESIDE Lawmen will immediately see the point of my title, but for social science readers I should explain. The phrase “fireside equities” is legalese for what the legal layman feels intuitively or commonsensically would be a fair or just result (Llewellyn, 1960). Sometimes the law accords with the fireside equities, sometimes no...

With the acceleration of the divorce rate from the mid1960s to the early 1980s, the number of nontraditional families (such as single-parent families and reconstituted families) have increased relative to intact, first-time nuclear families, This article reviews empirical evidence addressing the relationship between divorce, family composition, and children's well-being. Although not entirely c...