Since the 1970s, finding alternative permanent families for children in foster care who could not return to their birth parents has been a primary goal of the child welfare system. Since that time, significant gains have been made in helping such children find permanent homes through adoption and guardianship. This article analyzes these trends and finds: A majority of states have doubled the n...

Explaining why crime is spatially concentrated has been a central theme of much criminological research. Although various theories focus on neighborhood social processes, environmental criminology asserts that the physical environment plays a central role by shaping people’s activity patterns and the opportunities for crime. Here, we test theoretical expectations regarding the role of the road ...

Recent scientific studies suggest that the destabilisation of earth's climate and biodiversity loss are not separate, but interdependent phenomena. In this context, some have proposed creation a ‘Global Safety Net’ ecoregions should be preserved to stop further loss, preventing at same time growth CO2 emissions produced by deforestation allowing natural carbon removal. article, I first step ach...

We consider perfect verifiable secret sharing (VSS) in a synchronous network of n processors (players) where a designated player called the dealer wishes to distribute a secret s among the players in a way that no t of them obtain any information, but any t + 1 players obtain full information about the secret. The round complexity of a VSS protocol is defined as the number of rounds performed i...

"Guardian and ward have left. There are no assets." This was the terse formulation used by the National Association of Jews in Germany (Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland) in the 1940s when it had to "propose" to the county court that a guardianship be terminated. It was the closing comment for most of the 106 extant individual case files of the collective guardianship (Sammelvormundsch...

This article aimed to ascertain the point of view of Guardianship Councilors about the main difficulties of operation and mobilization faced by the Guardianship Councils network in ensuring full protection to children and teenagers in a situation of sexual abuse and exploitation in the municipality of Rio de Janeiro. The qualitative study, based on thematic analysis of 12 interviews (with indiv...

The main aim of this study was to examine the effect of a potential guardian on the severity of child sexual abuse. Using data obtained on crime events from adult child sexual offenders incarcerated in Queensland (Australia), mixed-effects logistic regression analyses were conducted to examine the effect of potential guardianship on the severity of abuse. Controlling for victim and situational ...

In December 2006 a data matching trial was undertaken in partnership between Women's and Children's Hospital (WCH) and Families South Australia (SA), the state child welfare agency, to identify children and young people under guardianship of the Minister for Families and Communities with those already registered on the WCH Patient Administration System (PAS). By identifying this group of childr...

Foot patrol work is rarely described in relation to public health, even though police routinely encounter health risk behaviors and environments. Through a qualitative study of foot patrol policing in violent 'hotspots' of Philadelphia, we explore some prospects and challenges associated with bridging security and public health considerations in law enforcement. Noting existing efforts to help ...