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Criminal neighbourhoods: does the density of prior offenders encourage others to commit crime?
Using crime data over a period of a decade for Glasgow, this paper explores whether the
density of prior offenders in a neighbourhoods has an influence on the propensity of others to
(re)commence offending. The study shows that the number of ‘newly active’ offenders in a
neighbourhood in the current quarter is positively associated with the density of prior
offenders for both violent and property crime from the previous two years. In the case of
‘newly active’ property offenders, the relationship with active prior offenders is only
apparent when prior offender counts exceed the median. The paper postulates that intraneighbourhood
social mechanisms may be at work to create these effects. The results suggest
that policies which concentrate offenders in particular neighbourhoods may increase the
number of ‘newly active’ offenders, and point to evidence of a threshold at which these
effects take place
Can neutron electromagnetic form factors be obtained by polarized inclusive electron scattering off polarized three-nucleon bound states?
The investigation of the electromagnetic inclusive responses of polarized
He within the plane wave impulse approximation is briefly reported. A
particular emphasys is put on the extraction, from the inclusive responses at
the quasielastic peak, of the neutron form factors from feasible experiments.Comment: 6 pages, Latex, 4 Postscript figures. Presented to XVth Conference on
"Few-body problems in Physics", Groningen July 1997.To appear in Nucl. Phys.
Rental Discrimination in the Multi-ethnic Metropolis: Evidence from Sydney
© 2016 Editorial Board, Urban Policy and Research. Investigating differential treatment in rental housing markets is important to ensure that renters are not discriminated against based on their personal characteristics. However, little Australian research has focused systematically on this question. This paper reports the results of a study that used paired tests to estimate the extent of differential treatment of Anglo, Indian, and Muslim Middle Eastern renters in the Sydney metropolitan housing market. We find statistically significant differences in treatment on several measures, including the likelihood an agent will offer an individual appointment, will provide additional information about other housing, will provide additional information about completing the application form, and will contact a prospective renter after an inspection
Nucleon Polarizibilities for Virtual Photons
We generalize the sum rules for the nucleon electric plus magnetic
polarizability and for the nucleon spin-polarizability
, to virtual photons with . The dominant low energy cross
sections are represented in our calculation by one-pion-loop graphs of
relativistic baryon chiral perturbation theory and the -resonance
excitation. For the proton we find good agreement of the calculated
with empirical values obtained from integrating up
electroproduction data for . The proton spin-polarizability
switches sign around and it joins smoothly the
"partonic" curve, extracted from polarized deep-inelastic scattering, around
. For the neutron our predictions of and
agree reasonably well at with existing determinations.
Upcoming (polarized) electroproduction experiments will be able to test the
generalized polarizability sum rules investigated here.Comment: 12 pages, 5 figures, submittes to Nuclear Physics
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