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Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 swedish dissertations containing the word robbery.

2. 1. Homeowner's Architectural Responses to Crime in Dar Es Salaan : Its impacts and implications to urban architecture, urban design and urban management

   Author : Ludigija Boniface Bulamile; Rolf Johansson; Tumsifu Nnkya; Jörgen Andreassen; KTH; []
   Keywords : crime; fear of crime; crime prevention; privacy; security safety; architecture; urban planning and design; urban management;

   Abstract : HTML clipboardThis study is about Homeowner’s architectural responses to crime in Dar es Salaam Tanzania: its impacts and implications to urban architecture, urban design and urban management. The study explores and examines the processes through which homeowners respond to crimes of burglary, home robbery and fear of it using architectural or physical elements. READ MORE

4. 2. Hedging shareholder value in an IT dependent business society : the framework BRITS

   Author : Christer Magnusson; Detmar W Straub; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; data- och systemvetenskap; Computer and Systems Sciences;

   Abstract : Business Requirements on IT Security (BRITS) is a framework that can assist IT dependent companies to hedge losses due to IT-perils financially. Using BRITS can help these companies to hedge IT perils in the same professional way as consequences of traditional perils like fire, flood, robbery are hedged and thereby secure shareholders' investments. READ MORE

5. 3. Group membership and eyewitness testimony

   Author : Torun Lindholm; Jerry Shaw; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Eyewitness testimony; group membership; intergroup biases; memory performance; psykologi; Psychology;

   Abstract : The present thesis includes four empirical studies that explore whether eyewitness accounts of a violent crime may be affected by factors related to the group membership of witness, perpetrator, and victim.Study 1 investigates how an immigrant and a Swedish perpetrator of a simulated, violent robbery are evaluated and remembered by immigrant and Swedish witnesses. READ MORE

6. 4. “Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde?” : Abuse of potent benzodiazepines, exemplified by flunitrazepam, in mentally disordered male offenders

   Author : Anna Maria Dåderman; Marianne Kristiansson; Lars Lidberg; Ann Wirsén Meurling; Sten Levander; Fred Nyberg; Karolinska Institutet Division of Forensic Psychiatry Department of Clinical Neuroscience; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Keywords : Flunitrazepam FZ abuse; side effects of FZ; offenders referred to forensic psychiatric evaluation; juvenile delinquents; personality traits; psychopathic traits and lifestyle PCL-R ; Psychology; Psykologi; Flunitrazepam FZ abuse; side effects of FZ; offenders referred to forensic psychiatric evaluation; juvenile delinquents; personality traits; psychopathic traits and lifestyle PCL-R .;

   Abstract : Flunitrazepam (FZ) is an example of a sedative-hypnotic benzodiazepine whose pharmacokinetic properties include a rapid onset of action and an intermediate duration of action. It has a high affinity to central benzodiazepine receptors and affects them profoundly. READ MORE

7. 5. Public Expenditures and Youth Crime

   Author : Lars Lindvall; Sören Blomquist; Clas-Henric Siven; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : Economics; youth crime; public expenditures; school quality; school expenditures; leisure expenditures; Nationalekonomi;

   Abstract : This dissertation comprises three essays on public expenditures and youth crime.Essay 1 deals with the modelling of youths’ criminal behavior and analyzes the public decision to allocate resources to school and leisure activities. First, an individual time allocation model with a choice set containing school, leisure and crime is set up. READ MORE