The authors estimate the relationship between trees and three crime aggre­ gates (all crime, violent crime, and property crime) and two individual crimes (burglary and vandalism) in Portland, Oregon. During the study period (2005­2007), 431 crimes were reported at the 2,813 single­family homes in our sample. In general, the authors find that trees in the public right of way are associated with ...

A crime is an act which is against the laws of a country or region. The technique which is used to find areas on a map which have high crime intensity is known as crime hotspot prediction. The technique uses the crime data which includes the area with crime rate and predict the future location with high crime intensity. The motivation of crime hotspot prediction is to raise people’s awareness r...

BACKGROUND Violence is a major public health issue, globally as well as in the African continent. This paper looks at Nigeria and begins the process of identifying the factors that predict interpersonal violence in that country. The purpose is to interpret the implications of the results presented here for violence prevention programmes in Nigeria. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study is based on ...

crime is a human behavior that has captivated the thoughts of scholars of various disciplines throughout history. philosophers, sociologists, psychologists and others have investigated and analyzed the concept of crime from different aspects. crime is the main topic of criminal law, and in its legal meaning is a well-known term with a certain conceptual load that should not be confused with sim...

This paper assesses the claim that sanctuary cities – defined as cities that expressly forbid city officials or police departments from inquiring into immigration status – are associated with post-hoc increases in crime. We employ a causal inference matching strategy to compare similarly situated cities where key variables are the same across the cities except the sanctuary status of the city. ...

Scale-adjusted metrics (SAMs) are a significant achievement of the urban scaling hypothesis. SAMs remove the inherent biases of per capita measures computed in the absence of isometric allometries. However, this approach is limited to urban areas, while a large portion of the world's population still lives outside cities and rural areas dominate land use worldwide. Here, we extend the concept o...

“resistance literature” is a new term in iranian literature with subject of their islamic revolution and their sacred defense (related to the war iraq imposed iran from 1980 up to 1988). there are many poets who have being worked in this field and their names are listed in relevant books and encyclopedias. this article is to prove that the late farshidvard was one of the pioneer activists again...