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Sebastian Huhn - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • a history of nonviolence insecurity and the normative power of the imagined in costa rica
    Social Science Research Network, 2008
    Co-Authors: Sebastian Huhn
    Abstract:

    Crime, violence, and insecurity are among the most important social topics in contemporary Costa Rica. These three issues play a central role in the media, politics, and everyday life, and the impression has emerged that security has changed for the worse and that society is now threatened permanently. However, Crime Statistics do not support this perception. The paper thus asks why violence and Crime generate such huge fear in society. The thesis is that the Costa Rican national identity—with Costa Rica constructed as a nonviolent nation— impedes a realistic discussion about the phenomena and their causes, and simultaneously provides a platform for sensationalism and the social construction of fear. Die Angst vor Gewalt, Kriminalitat und Unsicherheit ist in Costa Rica eines der wichtigsten gesellschaftlichen Probleme. In den Medien, der Politik und dem Alltag nehmen Gewalt und Kriminalitat grosen Raum ein und es entsteht der Eindruck, die Sicherheitslage habe sich dramatisch verschlechtert und die Bevolkerung musse in standiger Angst leben. Auf der Grundlage, dass Kriminalitatsstatistiken diese gesamtgesellschaftliche Angst nicht rechtfertigen, geht dieser Beitrag der Frage nach, warum Gewalt und Kriminalitat heute ausgerechnet in Costa Rica so grose Angst und Unsicherheit erzeugen. Die These lautet, dass die costaricanische nationale Identitat und die „nationale Erzahlung“ – in der Costa Rica als gewaltfreie Nation gedacht wird – einerseits den Blick auf die Ursachen von Gewalt und Kriminalitat versperren und andererseits die Projektionsflache fur die soziale Konstruktion gesellschaftlicher Angst darstellen.

  • a history of nonviolence insecurity and the normative power of the imagined in costa rica
    Research Papers in Economics, 2008
    Co-Authors: Sebastian Huhn
    Abstract:

    Crime, violence, and insecurity are among the most important social topics in contemporary Costa Rica. These three issues play a central role in the media, politics, and everyday life, and the impression has emerged that security has changed for the worse and that society is now threatened permanently. However, Crime Statistics do not support this perception. The paper thus asks why violence and Crime generate such huge fear in society. The thesis is that the Costa Rican national identity—with Costa Rica constructed as a nonviolent nation— impedes a realistic discussion about the phenomena and their causes, and simultaneously provides a platform for sensationalism and the social construction of fear.

Alan J. Lizotte - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • The Dark Figure of Online Property Crime: Is Cyberspace Hiding a Crime Wave?
    Justice Quarterly, 2015
    Co-Authors: M. Tcherni, Andrew L. B. Davies, Giza Lopes, Alan J. Lizotte
    Abstract:

    A pronounced drop in Crime, since the early 1990s, has encompassed every Crime category tracked by the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports, including property Crime. However, over the same period, the rates of online property Crime (OPC) have been on the rise according to available evidence. We delineate the extent of our knowledge and data concerning cyberCrime and identity theft and, using data from several nationally representative victimization surveys, offer an alternative view of property Crime trends while pointing out the glaring gap in Crime reporting and accounting in relation to the growing category of property Crimes perpetrated online. In addition, we compare estimated costs of traditional property Crime vs. OPC. Finally, we identify the main challenges for obtaining reliable data on OPC and discuss their implications, especially when applying the traditional methods of compiling Crime Statistics.

Yunmi Park - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

Nancy Chi Cantalupo - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • institution specific victimization surveys addressing legal and practical disincentives to gender based violence reporting on college campuses
    Trauma Violence & Abuse, 2014
    Co-Authors: Nancy Chi Cantalupo
    Abstract:

    This review brings together both the legal literature and original empirical research regarding the advisability of amending the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act or creating new Department of Education regulations to mandate that all higher education institutions survey their students approximately every 5 years about students' experiences with sexual violence. Legal research conducted regarding the three relevant federal legal regimes show inconsistent incentives for schools to encourage victim reporting and proactively address sexual violence on campus. Moreover, the original research carried out for this article shows that the experience of institutions that have voluntarily conducted such surveys suggests many benefits not only for students, prospective students, parents, and the general public but also for schools themselves. These experiences confirm the practical viability of a mandated survey by the Department of Education. Language: en

  • burying our heads in the sand lack of knowledge knowledge avoidance and the persistent problem of campus peer sexual violence
    Loyola University of Chicago Law Journal, 2011
    Co-Authors: Nancy Chi Cantalupo
    Abstract:

    This Article discusses why two laws that seek to prevent and end sexual violence between students on college campuses, Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972 (“Title IX”) and the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act (“Clery Act”), are failing to fulfill this goal and how these legal regimes can be improved to reach their objectives. It explicates how Title IX and the Clery Act ignore or exacerbate a series of “information problems” that create incentives for schools to “bury their heads in the sand” with regard to campus peer sexual violence. These information problems include: (1) the damage to a school’s public image that can come from increased reporting of the violence; (2) the persistent myth that such violence is committed mainly by strangers; (3) the lack of awareness by most school officials about the violence and a school’s legal obligations with regard to preventing the violence; and (4) the prohibitively expensive broad-based education and training that correcting such information problems would require. Several legal deficiencies emerge from this examination, including: (1) problems arising from the “actual notice” prong of the test created by the Supreme Court in Gebser v. Lago Vista Independent School District and Davis v. Monroe County Board of Education; (2) problems related to the Department of Education’s (“DOE’s”) administrative enforcement of Title IX; and (3) problems with the campus Crime reporting provisions of the Clery Act. This Article discusses each