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White-Collar Crime Is Crime: Victims Hurt Just the Same
No abstract available. From the beginning of the article: "Scholars examining public perceptions of crime seriousness have long shown, through their findings, that white‐collar crimes are considered as equally serious as ... -
Understanding the Link between Organizational Communication and Innovation: An Examination of Public, Nonprofit, and For-Profit Organizations in South Korea
Innovation and internal communication are essential for any successful organization. Although communication within organizations has long been studied in the for-profit sector, we still know little about the impact of ... -
Network-Based Likelihood Modeling of Event Occurrences in Space and Time: A Case Study of Traffic Accidents in Dallas, Texas, USA
We propose a novel approach to network-based event likelihood modeling that estimates the probabilities of event occurrences on a network and identifies the influences of site and situation characteristics. Our premise is ... -
The Linkage Between Mental Health, Delinquency, and Trajectories of Delinquency: Results from the Boricua Youth Study
Purpose: To examine the longitudinal relationship between depression, delinquency, and trajectories of delinquency among Hispanic children and adolescents. Methods: Propensity score matching is used to match depressed and ... -
Fiscal Effects of Municipal Annexation: Evidence from a Large National Sample of Urban Municipalities
This paper examines the relationship between annexation and municipal finance and addresses a gap in the literature by studying the role of revenue structure and fiscal constraints. Using a large national sample of urban ... -
Guns or Money? Defense Co-Operation and Bilateral Lending as Coevolving Networks
How are defense co-operation and economic co-operation related? To answer this question, this article analyzes the coevolution of defense co-operation agreements (DCAs) and government-to-government loans. It argues that ... -
Comparing Logging and Subsistence Values of Plants Across an Indigenous Peoples’ Influenced Landscape
The ecosystem services derived from tropical plants sustain local societies and make significant contributions to the global economy. Often many types of ecosystem services are derived from a single plant species, introducing ... -
A Spatial-Filtering Zero-Inflated Approach to the Estimation of the Gravity Model of Trade
Nonlinear estimation of the gravity model with Poisson-type regression methods has become popular for modelling international trade flows, because it permits a better accounting for zero flows and extreme values in the ... -
Creating Optimal Patrol Areas Using the P-Median Model
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the use of the p-median model to construct optimal patrol areas. This can improve both time spent traveling to calls, as well as equalize call load between patrol areas. ... -
Changing the Relationship between Impulsivity and Antisocial Behavior: The Impact of a School Engagement Program
This study examines the extent to which a third-party policing experiment designed to prevent truancy in disadvantaged adolescents is able to weaken the effect of impulsivity on self-reported antisocial behavior over time. ... -
Experiences Versus Perceptions: Do Students Agree That They Have Been Bullied?
Each year, an estimated 30% of school children experience bullying by their classmates. While research has explored the prevalence of bullying, the causes of bullying, and the consequences of bullying, less attention has ... -
Crime in College Predicts Violent Crime in the National Football League
The relationship between past and future crime is one of the most robust findings within criminology. Yet, there have been few attempts to examine whether this linkage holds in specific employment arenas. In this study, ... -
Causal Inference from Pivotal Politics Theories
We review attempts to evaluate Pivotal Politics and related theories in light of the social sciences’ movement toward causal empiricism. To accommodate limitations of available data, most existing empirical approaches ... -
Confronting the Costs of Its past Success: Revisiting Taiwan's Post-Authoritarian Political and Economic Development
The evolution of Taiwan's political economy seems paradoxical. From the 1960s to 1980s, Taiwan went through economic transformations that have been called an “economic miracle.” This was followed by a successful democratic ... -
National Redd+ Implications for Tenured Indigenous Communities in Guyana, and Communities' Impact on Forest Carbon Stocks
Early project-level initiatives of reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation' (REDD+) have left a negative impression among many forest-dependent peoples (FDP) across the tropics. As countries move towards ... -
Inclusive Work Practices: Turnover Intentions Among LGBT Employees of the U.S. Federal Government
The federal government lags behind in progressive civil rights policies in regard to universal workplace antidiscrimination laws for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Americans. The slow progress matters to ... -
A Meta-Regression Analysis of the Effectiveness of Mosquito Nets for Malaria Control: The Value of Long-Lasting Insecticide Nets
Long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) have been widely used as an effective alternative to conventional insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) for over a decade. Due to the growing number of field trials and interventions reporting ... -
Understanding Needs and Barriers to Using Geospatial Tools for Public Health Policymaking in China
Despite growing popularity of using geographical information systems and geospatial tools in public health fields, these tools are only rarely implemented in health policy management in China. This study examines the ... -
Measurement of Individual H⁺ and O⁺ Ion Temperatures in the Topside Ionosphere
Plasma temperatures in the ionosphere are associated with both the dynamics and spatial distribution of the neutral and charge particles. During the daytime, temperatures are determined by solar energy inputs and energy ... -
The Plasma Environment Associated with Equatorial Ionospheric Irregularities
We examine the density structure of equatorial depletions referred to here as equatorial plasma bubbles (EPBs). Data recorded by the Ion Velocity Meter as part of the Coupled Ion Neutral Dynamics Investigation (CINDI) ...
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