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This Brief reviews the history of foot patrol and the recent, research-driven resurgence of foot patrol in places such as Philadelphia. It summarizes and critiques existing literature on the subject, examining the efficacy of foot patrol. At the time the Philadelphia...
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Springer
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2017-10-02
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SpringerBriefs in Criminology
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This book examines the structural dynamics of HIV among populations at heightened vulnerability to infection as the result of stigma, discrimination and marginalization. It first examines how the socio-structural context shapes HIV risk and how affected populations and...
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Springer
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2017-09-30
Collection :
Social Aspects of HIV
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This book articulates and interconnects a range of research methods for the investigation of business management processes. It introduces new directions that both recognise the business community as stakeholders in the research process and seek to include them in that...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-09-27
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By 2025, Americans will likely be donating over half a trillion dollars annually to nonprofit organizations. Those philanthropic gifts will transform significant parts of America's civic sector landscape. Philanthropy is entering an era of unprecedented growth and...
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PublicAffairs
Parution :
2017-09-26
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This book focuses on interregional relations across the Atlantic and the possible evolution of a new, distinctive Atlantic space for international relations. It provides a comprehensive insight into the overlapping linkages of interregionalism in the wider Atlantic...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-09-26
Collection :
United Nations University Series on Regionalism
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This Brief presents the first major release of findings from the Third International Self-Report Delinquency Study (ISRD3). ISRD is a major international research collaboration that now covers some 35 countries. It surveys young people aged 12 to 16 in their schools,...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-09-25
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The financial crisis of 2007–8 and its aftermath have resulted in the role of money and finance within the global economy becoming the subject of considerable debate in public, policy and media circles. Global Finance is a timely look at the contemporary...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2017-09-25
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This book is a distinctive collection on transcultural encounters in knowledge production and consumption, which are situated at the heart of pursuit for cognitive justice. It uniquely represents transcultural dialogues between academics of Australia, China and...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-09-22
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This book explores the life of economist and social scientist Wilhelm Lexis and the key demographic instrument named after him: the Lexis diagram. It describes this vital tool, which helps demographers visualize data, and examines its various forms through a specially...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-09-20
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This volume engages with the renewed focus on various forms of persisting and new marginalities in globalising India. The persistence of hunger in pockets of India; forcible land acquisitions and their impact on deprived sections of society; the effects of urban...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-09-20
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Taking a bioarchaeological approach, this book examines the Ancestral Pueblo culture living in the Four Corners region of the United States during the late Pueblo I through the end of the Pueblo III period (AD 850-1300). During this time, a vast system of pueblo...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-09-20
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This book proposes an original research approach, a mixed typological research design, which is in the legacy of classic Grounded Theory.This approach allows researchers to accomplish productive academic empirical research by developing and elaborating groundbreaking...
Editeur :
Éditions EMS
Parution :
2017-09-19
Collection :
Business Science Institute
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This volume brings together cutting-edge research from emerging and senior scholars alike representing a variety of disciplines that bears on human preferences for fairness, equity and justice. Despite predictions derived from evolutionary and economic theories that...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-09-18
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This volume looks at sustainable protection and sustainable use of cultural and natural heritage, particularly in view of the current challenges of the 21st century. For more than 40 years the World Heritage Convention has regulated the protection of the cultural and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-09-18
Collection :
Heritage Studies
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This book examines key sociological theories that have contributed to the understanding of the nature of social work, its organisation and delivery. It provides key sociological concepts and theories to help student social workers better understand the nature of their...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2017-09-18
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Sexual citizenship has become a key concept in the social sciences. It describes the rights and responsibilities of citizens in sexual and intimate life, including debates over equal marriage and women's human rights, as well as shaping thinking about citizenship more...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2017-09-18
ePub
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Exam Board: IBLevel: IBSubject: GeographyFirst Teaching: September 2017First Exam: Summer 2019Stretch your students to achieve their best grade with these year round course companions; provides comprehensive content on all topics, and practice questions to...
Editeur :
Hodder Education
Parution :
2017-09-18
ePub
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This book is the result of research into the considerable impacts the signing of the Schengen Agreement has had on the border regions of the signatory, in particular the Central European internal borders. The analysis provides an in-depth look at European integration,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-09-15
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This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license.This book introduces new methods for measuring and analyzing residential segregation. It begins by placing all popular segregation indices in the “difference of group means” framework wherein index scores can be...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-09-14
Collection :
The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis
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This Brief proposes a criminological typology for understanding and addressing police misconduct. Through examination of each major type of police misconduct, the author proposes future research directions to deter and prevent misconduct.According to an...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-09-14
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Criminology
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