Results
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Gun Violence's Impact on Business
Criminology literature is frequently concerned with secondary and tertiary costs of local crime. A recent paper published in the journal of Crime Science adds to this discussion by focusing on the impacts of gunshots on local business activity.
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The Epidemic of Gun Violence
More than 200 people were murdered or assaulted with a firearm daily in the United States between 2006 and 2014. With numbers like this, gun violence in America is frequently referred to in media and rhetoric as an epidemic, but what insights and interventions can be afforded by approaching gun violence through the same lens as an actual disease epidemic?
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Inflation and Crime
Researchers from diverse fields continuously seek statistical information that can forecast crime rates. Such efforts generate insights of societal and economic factors that contribute to criminal incentives that produce a greater number of criminal offenders.
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Mental Health and Crime
We examine the impact of crime among many dimensions of mental health, including psychological distress, decreased quality of life, and the erosion of trust in authorities.
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Response Time
Policing agencies are naturally concerned with quickly responding to calls for service. Rapid police response can prevent violence, facilitate the gathering of information and evidence, and potentially increase the likelihood of capturing an offender.
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Target Selection
Criminology has long sought to understand how motivated offenders choose their targets and what locations seem to attract criminality.
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Vacancy and Crime
Residential foreclosures and vacancies negatively impact both displaced families and the surrounding neighborhood. Research by Professors Lin Cui and Randall Walsh published in the Journal of Urban Economics analyzes how foreclosures and related vacancies foster violent crime at the neighborhood level, and how this effect worsens with prolonged vacancy.
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Violence on the Mind
In addition to bodily harm and loss of life, violent crime brings about collateral damage as it spreads fear, trauma, and uncertainty across a community. Social scientists have long been concerned with evaluating and understanding these additional costs and the extent of violence’s reach into a community.
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The Seasonality of Crime
The seasonality of crime is an often referred to and taken for granted aspect of modern criminology. The relation of crime rates to the seasons, and analysis into the various cofactors that might exacerbate or attenuate crime at a specific time of year, has been a topic of statistical analysis and academic interest since the 1800s.
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Pollution and Aggravative Assaults
New research shows that violent crime is aggravated by air pollution. This follows an increasing volume of academic research establishing air pollution’s adverse societal and health effects.