An examination of the effects of 2014 concealed weapons law in Illinois on property crimes in Chicago

In June 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees an individual the right to keep and bear arms. Two years later, this decision was also made applicable to state and local governments. Today, seven U.S. states have provisions allowing the carrying of concealed weapons on their public senior high school campuses. This article, introduced by a brief comment on the Second Amendment’s legal and academic history, traces several recent developments of legal change. It discusses relevant arguments and attitudes towards guns on campus, and explores issues of future concern for public colleges and universities within the realm of firearms and campus safety.

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Mismatched Liberation Theory: A Comparative Method to Explain Increasing Female Crime Share in the United States

Feminist Criminology ◽

10.1177/1557085121993210 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 155708512199321

Author(s):

Ting Wang

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Comparative Method ◽

The United States ◽

Crime Reporting ◽

Female Crime ◽

Modern Times ◽

Property Crimes ◽

Gender Specific ◽

Uniform Crime Reporting ◽

Reporting Data

In this paper, I propose a new theory that ascribes the increasing female crime share to unequal emancipatory advancement between women’s ideological aspirations and institutional means in modern times. Accordingly, it is proposed that an incommensurate pace in progression inflicts gender-specific deprivation on women, which increases their share of crime. The theory is tested with Uniform Crime Reporting data from 1980 to 2017 across offense types. The findings indicate that mismatched liberation increases the female share of violent and property crimes, especially for adult cohorts and among samples after 1988 when women’s ends-means gap was found to be enlarged.

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W-band beam-steerable MEMS-based reflectarray

International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies ◽

10.1017/s1759078711000754 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 3 (5) ◽

pp. 521-532 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Simone Montori ◽

Elisa Chiuppesi ◽

Paola Farinelli ◽

Luca Marcaccioli ◽

Roberto Vincenti Gatti ◽

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Keyword(s):

Liquid Crystal ◽

Imaging System ◽

Elementary Cell ◽

Control Architecture ◽

Micro Electro Mechanical Systems ◽

Concealed Weapons ◽

W Band ◽

Innovative Solutions ◽

Wave Imaging ◽

The University

This paper presents recent advances on reconfigurable reflectarrays at the University of Perugia. In particular, the activities carried out in the framework of the FP7 project ARASCOM (“MEMS and Liquid Crystal based” Agile Reflectarray Antennas for Security and COMmunication). As for ARASCOM outcomes, the purpose of the project is the design of a very large reconfigurable reflectarray controlled with micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) for mm-wave imaging system at 76.5 GHz. A system with sufficient resolution to detect concealed weapons impose challenging requirements on the antenna, which shall be made of hundreds of thousands elements. The problem has been addressed by exploiting some innovative solutions and architectures that will be described in this document. In particular, the dimensioning of the reflectarray, the proposed 1-bit geometry of elementary cell, and the innovative biasing control architecture are reported together with the MEMS design and fabrication and the experimental results of a demonstrating board that validated the adopted procedure.

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Detection and classification of concealed weapons using a magnetometer-based portal

10.1117/12.479303 ◽

2002 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Dale K. Kotter ◽

Lyle G. Roybal ◽

Robert E. Polk

Keyword(s):

Concealed Weapons

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Crime Mapping and Crime Analysis of Property Crimes in Jodhpur

International Annals of Criminology ◽

10.1017/cri.2017.11 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 55 (2) ◽

pp. 205-219 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Swikar Lama ◽

Sikandar Singh Rathore

Keyword(s):

Environmental Factors ◽

Crime Prevention ◽

Police Officers ◽

Hot Spots ◽

Hot Spot ◽

Situational Crime Prevention ◽

Crime Analysis ◽

Crime Mapping ◽

Property Crimes

AbstractThis study is based on crime mapping and crime analysis of property crimes in Jodhpur. The property crimes which were selected were house breaking, auto thefts and chain snatching. Data from police stations were used to generate the maps to locate hot spots of crimes. The profile of these hot spots was analyzed through observations supplemented with interviews of police officers and public 100 cases of house breaking and 100 cases of auto thefts were further analyzed to understand the contexts which lead to these crimes. These contexts are in consonance with situational crime prevention theories. This study may help to understand the environmental factors which may be responsible for certain places becoming hot spot areas of property crimes in Jodhpur.

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An examination of the effects of concealed weapons laws and assault weapons bans on state-level murder rates

Applied Economics Letters ◽

10.1080/13504851.2013.854294 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 21 (4) ◽

pp. 265-267 ◽

Cited By ~ 42

Author(s):

Mark Gius

Keyword(s):

State Level ◽

Concealed Weapons ◽

Assault Weapons

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Terahertz Image Detection with the Improved Faster Region-Based Convolutional Neural Network

Sensors ◽

10.3390/s18072327 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 18 (7) ◽

pp. 2327 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

Jinsong Zhang ◽

Wenjie Xing ◽

Mengdao Xing ◽

Guangcai Sun

Keyword(s):

Neural Network ◽

Convolutional Neural Network ◽

Detection System ◽

Terahertz Imaging ◽

Image Detection ◽

Data Format ◽

Standard Data ◽

Concealed Weapons ◽

Special Distribution ◽

Effectiveness And Efficiency

In recent years, terahertz imaging systems and techniques have been developed and have gradually become a leading frontier field. With the advantages of low radiation and clothing-penetrable, terahertz imaging technology has been widely used for the detection of concealed weapons or other contraband carried on personnel at airports and other secure locations. This paper aims to detect these concealed items with deep learning method for its well detection performance and real-time detection speed. Based on the analysis of the characteristics of terahertz images, an effective detection system is proposed in this paper. First, a lots of terahertz images are collected and labeled as the standard data format. Secondly, this paper establishes the terahertz classification dataset and proposes a classification method based on transfer learning. Then considering the special distribution of terahertz image, an improved faster region-based convolutional neural network (Faster R-CNN) method based on threshold segmentation is proposed for detecting human body and other objects independently. Finally, experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed method for terahertz image detection.

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