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An empirical study of malicious false fire alarm calls

S. Cameron
- 01 Jun 1986 - 
- Vol. 6, Iss: 1, pp 33-44
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This article is published in International Review of Law and Economics.The article was published on 1986-06-01. It has received 5 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Poison control.

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Substitution Between Offence Categories in the Supply of Property Crime: Some New Evidence

TL;DR: The authors studied substitution behavior for burglary, robbery and theft using 1981 data for the police force areas of England and Wales and compared their results with those of American researchers and also examined the impact of substitution on the broad conclusions of the conventional non-substitution model.
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Empirische Untersuchungen des Modells rationalen kriminellen Verhaltens: Eine Übersicht

Henning Curti
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present empirischer empirischer Vorgehensweisen empirischer Studien des Modells rationalen kriminellen Verhaltens reichen von einfachen Korrelationsstudien bis zu Zeitreihenanalysen.
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Outsiders; studies in the sociology of deviance

TL;DR: One of the most groundbreaking sociology texts of the mid-20th century, Howard S. Becker's Outsiders is a thorough exploration of social deviance and how it can be addressed in an understanding and helpful manner.
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Participation in Illegitimate Activities: A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation

TL;DR: In this paper, a theory of participation in illegitimate activities is developed and tested against data on variations in index crimes across states in the United States and behavioral implications are derived using the state preference approach to behavior under uncertainty.
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Participation in Illegitimate Activities: A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation

TL;DR: In this article, a theory of participation in illegitimate activities is developed and tested against data on variations in index crimes across states in the United States and behavioral implications are derived using the state preference approach to behavior under uncertainty.