SAIC final technical report : summary and tables : crime and poverty nexus in urban Ghana

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This report provides a narrative summary along with tables of publication, conference presentations and other outputs. In contradiction to mainstream criminology literature, data suggests low-class and poor neighbourhoods are less prone to crime and safer than middle-class neighbourhoods. The relative safety of upper-class neighbourhoods was attributed to extensive target-hardening of homes, and higher presence of both state and private security agencies in these neighbourhoods compared to low-class and middle-class neighbourhoods. The study has significant implications for crime mapping and law enforcement interventions as well as overall efforts of the state in crime prevention.

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CRIME PREVENTION, SOCIAL CLASSES, SOCIAL INCLUSION, SAFE AND INCLUSIVE CITIES, HUMAN SECURITY, LAW ENFORCEMENT, GHANA, SOUTH OF SAHARA

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