+ COMMUNITIES, STREET GUNS AND HOMICIDE TRAJECTORIES IN CHICAGO, 1980-1995: MERGING METHODS FOR EXAMINING HOMICIDE TRENDS ACROSS SPACE AND TIME
- Author:
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Griffiths E / Chavez JM
- Date:
- 2004
- Publication:
- Criminology
- Topics:
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Crime, Criminology, Local, Social Science
- Keywords:
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Chicago, HOMICIDE, Violence, methodology
The authors use two techniques for data analysis, i.e. Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis and a group-based trajectory procedure, to classify the prevalence of violence in Chicago communities, using data...
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+ Guns and drugs: Case studies on the principled limits of the criminal sanction
- Author:
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Husak DN
- Date:
- 2004
- Publication:
- Law and Philosophy
- Topics:
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Crime, Criminology, Legislation and Policy, Social Science
- Keywords:
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Legislation, criminalization, drug, policy
The author argues against the use of criminal law to reduce the risk of harm from guns or drugs. He describes overcriminalization in the case of offenses designed to prevent the risk of harm rather than...
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+ KINGPINS OR MULES: AN ANALYSIS OF DRUG OFFENDERS INCARCERATED IN FEDERAL AND STATE PRISONS
- Author:
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Sevigny EL / Caulkins JP
- Date:
- 2004
- Publication:
- Criminology & Public Policy
- Topics:
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Criminology, Law Enforcement, Social Science
- Keywords:
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drug, offender, prison, spectrum
The authors evaluate incarcerated drug offenders with regards to their participation in drug groups, the type and amount of drugs, their involvement with firearms, and their criminal conviction and arrest...
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+ Exploring the Drugs-Homicide Connection
- Author:
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Varano SP / McClluskey JD / Patchin JW / Bynum TS
- Date:
- 2004
- Publication:
- Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice
- Topics:
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Criminology, Local, Social Science
- Keywords:
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HOMICIDE, drug
The authors examined the association between various individual, situational, and contextual factors and different drug-homicide events (for instance, drug-motivated homicides, or peripheral drug homicides,...
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