This study examines the representation of crime stories in the news. Using 71 matched pairs, we examine the constructed elements in the reporting of crime stories between newspapers and local television to document similarities and differences across the mediums. Although considerable work has been devoted to discerning differences in reporting across types of media, little research has investi...

PURPOSE Inadequate physical activity and obesity during adolescence are areas of public health concern. Questions exist about the role of neighborhoods in the etiology of these problems. This research addressed the relationships of perceived and objective reports of neighborhood crime to adolescent physical activity, screen media use, and body mass index (BMI). METHODS Socioeconomically and r...

OBJECTIVE Leverage an experimental study to determine whether gender or recent crime victimization modify the mental health effects of moving to low-poverty neighborhoods. METHODS The Moving to Opportunity (MTO) study randomized low-income families in public housing to an intervention arm receiving vouchers to subsidize rental housing in lower-poverty neighborhoods or to controls receiving no...

PURPOSE The purpose was to examine how fear of crime, crime victimization, and perceived level of community incivilities are related to physical activity participation and outdoor recreation among Latino adolescents. METHOD The study utilized a mixed methods approach that included 25 qualitative interviews and 390 school-based surveys collected from youth across three schools in Little Villag...

A major aim of longitudinal analyses of life course data is to describe the within- and between-individual variability in a behavioral outcome, such as crime. Statistical analyses of such data typically draw on mixture and mixed-effects growth models. In this work, we present a functional analytic point of view and develop an alternative method that models individual crime trajectories as depar...

1 Aos, S., Barnoski, R., & Lieb, R. (1998). Watching the bottom line: Cost-effective interventions for reducing crime in Washington (Doc. No. 98-01-1201). Olympia: Washington State Institute for Public Policy. 2 Aos, S., Phipps, P., Barnoski, R., & Lieb, R. (2001). The comparative costs and benefits of programs to reduce crime (Doc. No. 01-05-1201). Olympia: Washington State Institute for Publi...

The article examines the concept and essence of crimes against family youth, issues responsibility for this type crime, history development norms criminal law which is provided established. protection public relations that ensure life safety minors also reflected in early stages state law. In particular, Avesta, then Sharia law, especially Islam, crime punishment are fully regulated. Crimes div...

Relativities recently undertaken by the Commonwealth Grants Commission (CGC), one area which attracted a considerable amount of discussion was the perceived effects of "urbanisation" on both the higher usage and the higher costs of the provision of law and order services in urban areas. The Commission had recognised certain supposed effects of population concentration and urban size on police w...

Black youth are more likely than white youth to grow up in poor, segregated neighborhoods. This racial inequality in the neighborhood environments of black youth increases their contact with hazardous neighborhood environmental features including violence and toxic exposures that contribute to racial inequality in youth health and well-being. While the concept of neighborhood effects has been s...