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  2. Routine activity theory - Wikipedia

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    According to Felson and Cohen, the reason for the increase is that the prosperity of contemporary society offers more opportunities for crime to occur. For example, the use of automobiles, on one hand, enables offenders to move more freely to conduct their violations and, on the other hand, provide more targets for theft.

  3. Triangulation (social science) - Wikipedia

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    In the social sciences, triangulation refers to the application and combination of several research methods in the study of the same phenomenon. [1] By combining multiple observers, theories, methods, and empirical materials, researchers hope to overcome the weakness or intrinsic biases and the problems that come from single method, single-observer, and single-theory studies.

  4. Liberty's Prisoners - Wikipedia

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    Sharon Block describes Manion as a "dexterous scholar" in a review for the Journal of Women's History, noting the "theoretically-influenced empirical approach to tracing the development of the carceral state in post-Revolutionary Pennsylvania" as well as the footnotes and appendix tables that "make clear this commitment to evidentiary documentation of lives too often erased."

  5. Prisoners of Profit - The Huffington Post

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    Forging Connections. A one-time New York City hotelier who began renting out rooms to prisoners in 1989, Slattery has established a dominant perch in the juvenile corrections business through an astute cultivation of political connections and a crafty gaming of the private contracting system.

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  7. Rational choice theory (criminology) - Wikipedia

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    Rational choice modeling has a long history in criminology.This method was designed by Cornish and Clarke to assist in thinking about situational crime prevention. [1] In this context, the belief that crime generally reflects rational decision-making by potential criminals is sometimes called the rational choice theory of crime.

  8. Drive-thru dinner: 29 fast-food restaurants open on Thanksgiving

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    Whether you're on the road or don't feel like preparing a big feast, here are fast-food places open on Thanksgiving, from Taco Bell to Burger King to Subway.

  9. Spirit Airlines said Monday it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after struggling with losses, growing debt and a failed merger during the post-pandemic travel lull.