Are Editors Being Exploited?

Are exploited fish populations stable?

Editors' Introduction: Seeing and Being Seen to Prevent Crime

Cohen and Felson (1979) argue that for a direct-contact predatory crime to be committed, one of the three essential conditions that must converge in space and time is "absence of capable guardians," or, more abstractly, "absence of capable guardianship." Surveillance (or the appearance of surveillance) is part of capable guardianship. Clarke (1995) presents 12 "techniques" of situational preven...

Are You Being Served?

There has been a lot of talk about service robots over the past decade, and indeed some service robots are starting to make their way into the real world; delivering food in hospitals, turning book pages for people with physical diabilities, and the like. Unfortunately, while functional, these robots perform their jobs with all the panache of machines. When people want service robots they reall...

Are You Being Served?

There has been a lot of talk about service robots over the past decade, and indeed some service robots are starting to make their way into the real world; delivering food in hospitals, turning book pages for people with physical diabilities, and the like. Unfortunately, while functional, these robots perform their jobs with all the panache of machines. When people want service robots they reall...

Are you being served?

This article explores the determinants of public satisfaction (or dissatisfaction) with health and education services in Africa. Among prospective explanations, we consider the users’ poverty, their general perceptions of service accessibility, and their specific experiences with service providers. We find that user-friendliness of services is essential, especially to poorer clients. But daily ...