Stigmatization of individuals who utilize public welfare in the United States is prevalent and correlates with negative mental health outcomes. Poverty has often been associated violence crime, which exacerbates stigmatization people experiencing poverty. Hence, study applied empowerment perspective examining nutritional assistance as an empowering intervention. It was hypothesized that would b...

crime in the media: subversion, social control, or mental chewing gum? Mass media representations of crime, deviance, and disorder have been a perennial cause of concern. Two competing anxieties can be discerned in public debate, and both are reflected in a large research literature. On the one hand the media are often seen as fundamentally subversive, on the other as a more or less subtle form...

Mass media depictions of persons with mental illness are generally negative and stigmatizing. From the earliest published studies (1, 2) to more recent work (3–5) media portrayals of mental illness have been characterized by crime and violence (6, 7), unpredictability (8–10), and social incompetence (11, 12). These portrayals are of great concern to mental health professionals because they subv...

This paper critically examines the affordances and limitations of big data for the study of crime and disorder. We hypothesize that disorder-related posts on Twitter are associated with actual police crime rates. Our results provide evidence that naturally occurring social media data may provide an alternative information source on the crime problem. This paper adds to the emerging field of com...

Many police forces operate a policy of high visibility in disordered neighbourhoods with high crime. However, little is known about whether increased police presence influences people's beliefs about a neighbourhood's social environment or their fear of crime. Three experimental studies compared people's perceptions of social capital and fear of crime in disordered and ordered neighbourhoods, e...

Background In a changing world the skills that children need for good life chances are increasing and becoming more complex. However, there are great differences in the health and development linked to social origins. Many studies present a consistent picture that adversity in early life is linked to: poor adult mental and physical health, mortality, anti-social and criminal behaviour, substanc...

cities, as the focused centers for human residence and settlement, are faced with various issues and problems. the high rate of crime and anomic behavior are characteristics of today’s major cities. fear of crime and anomic behavior is perceived as the most important reasons leading to a decline in the use of public spaces in cities by its residents. according to the mutual relation between env...

Social disorganization theory focuses on the relationship between neighborhood structure, social control, and crime. Recent theoretical and empirical work on the relationship between community characteristics and crime has led to important refinements of social disorganization theory, yet there remain some substantive and methodological deficiencies in this body of work. This article addresses ...