Sökning: "Environmental crime"

Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 23 avhandlingar innehållade orden Environmental crime.

  1. 11. Violent crime : addressing causation with family-based methods

    Författare :Thomas Frisell; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Sammanfattning : Violent crime is an important public health problem, and incurs major costs for society. The effect of interventions has so far been modest, often attributed to a research focus on risk factors for crime, but a relative lack of understanding of the causal mechanisms behind these factors. LÄS MER

  3. 12. Situational sources of rule-breaking acts : an analytic criminology approach

    Författare :Alberto P. Chrysoulakis; Marie Torstensson Levander; Anna-Karin Ivert; Alfonso Serrano Maíllo; Malmö universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; adolescents; collective efficacy; crime propensity; delinquency; mechanisms; morality; peers; rule-breaking; self-control; situational action theory; time-use; unstructured socialising; Kriminologi; Criminology;

    Sammanfattning : Criminology has long been divided by mainly focusing on people’s propensities to commit crimes, on the one hand, and environmental characteristics conducive to crime, on the other. Such a division must be bridged to advance knowledge about why some people, but not others, commit rule-breaking acts in some environments but not in others. LÄS MER

  4. 13. The impact of criminal and externalizing behaviors on aging : Long-term associations with health and dementia

    Författare :Carmen Solares Canal; Henrik Larsson; Jonas Persson; Henrik Andershed; Björn Hofvander; Örebro universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Older adults; aging; criminal behavior; externalizing behaviors; violent crime; dementia; Alzheimer s diseases; mental health; physical health; epidemiology;

    Sammanfattning : Previous studies have shown that criminal and other externalizing behaviors are associated with several adverse outcomes, but very little is known about the impact of these behaviors beyond middle adulthood. Few studies have explored how a life-course background of criminal and externalizing behaviors influence aging and more specifically, whether it is associated with the onset and development of different neurodegenerative, mental, and physical health disorders when aging. LÄS MER

  5. 14. Family, Friend, or Foe? Essays in Empirical Microeconomics

    Författare :Hilda Ralsmark; Nationalekonomiska institutionen; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Family size; earnings; health; twins; well-being; divorce law; media; social tolerance; hate crime;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of four studies that deal with how individual outcomes are shaped by social interactions. The scope of the thesis ranges from relationships between individuals in what is arguably the most fundamental building block in society today — the family — to more generalized relationships between different groups in society. LÄS MER

  7. 15. Genetic and environmental influences on eating disorders and associated adversities and comorbidities

    Författare :Shuyang Yao; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Sammanfattning : Eating disorders (EDs), including anorexia nervosa (AN) and bulimia nervosa (BN), are severe psychiatric disorders. Adversities (including suicide) and comorbidities have been illustrated in clinical observations with varying sample sizes, but evidence from large epidemiological research is still lacking. LÄS MER