Computer-generated spatial and statistical comparisons of critical land resource data derived from conventional sources, RB-57 photographs, and ERTS images, for an eastern Wisconsin test site, suggest that certain critical land resource data can be mapped from ERTS images on a statewide basis. This paper presents one of the biotic resources, wetlands, as an example of the use of ERTS imagery to inventory land resources.
The public rely on the police to enforce the law, and the police rely on the public to report crime and assist them with their enquiries. Police action or inaction can also impact on public willingness to informally intervene in community problems. In this paper we examine the formal-informal control nexus in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on a survey sample of 1,595 Australians during COVID-19 lockdown restrictions, we examine the relationship between police effectiveness, collective efficacy, and public willingness to intervene when others violate lockdown restrictions. We find that perceptions of police effectiveness in handling the COVID-19 crisis has a positive impact on the public's willingness to intervene when others violate lockdown restrictions.
Abstract The effectiveness of universal social emotional learning (SEL) programs are dependent on the incorporation of best practice principles, including an evaluative component. In the present study, the effects of a best practice, teacher‐led SEL program was examined with 854 children aged 8–12 years. KooLKIDS uses an interactive multimedia format and animated character to help children develop their emotion regulation capacities, social and friendship skills, empathy and compassion for others, and self‐esteem. A quasi‐experimental waitlist‐control design was used to examine the impact of KooLKIDS on social and emotional competence, behavioral and emotional problems, academic achievement and effort. Hierarchical linear modeling demonstrated significant increases in social and emotional competence, and reductions in internalizing and externalizing problems in children post KooLKIDS program in the intervention group. The findings suggest that KooLKIDS has strong potential as a teacher‐led, classroom‐based, structured program for enhancing children's social and emotional learning.
An independent investigation of a government database has identified doctors and other health professionals who are prescribing worryingly large quantities of opioids, antipsychotics, and other drugs to elderly and other patients through the Medicare prescription plan.
Although the database makes it easy to identify practitioners who are prescribing large amounts of “potentially harmful, disorienting or addictive” drugs, federal officials “have done little to detect or deter these hazardous prescribing patterns,” the investigators report.
The investigation was conducted by ProPublica, an independent, non-profit investigative journalism …
A number of international studies have found that the initial stages of the COVID-19 pandemic were associated with reductions in crime, primarily due to changes in the routine activities of the population. However, to date there has been no targeted exploration of how COVID-19 may have influenced youth offending, which may be more heavily impacted by the changes heralded by COVID-19 containment measures. This study examines changes in youth offending in an Australia jurisdiction, Queensland, following the implementation of COVID-19 containment measures from the period April to June 2020. Additionally, differences in impacts across community types were explored. Findings from the panel regression indicated significant declines in youth property offending, offences against the person and public order offences in this period, but no significant changes in illicit drug offences. There were also significant differences across communities according to socio-economic status, per cent Indigenous population, and the extent of commercial or industrial land use. Findings are explored with reference to environmental crime theories and the potential impacts of social, economic and policing changes that occurred in this period.
This technical report presents the methodology and findings for the Attitudes to Authority during COVID-19 Wave 2 Survey (herein referred to as the COVID-19 Wave 2 Survey). The COVID-19 Wave 2 Survey was fielded via Facebook in November 2020, six months after the first wave survey was completed (see Murphy, Williamson, Sargeant, & McCarthy, 2020a). The follow-up COVID-19 Wave 2 Survey sought to gauge participants’ attitudes to authorities and their handling of the COVID-19 pandemic months after the pandemic started in March 2020 and when work and life routines in the states and territories in Australia, with the exception of the state of Victoria, were returning to normality. The COVID-19 Wave 2 Survey enabled change in attitudes from early in the pandemic to be tracked. In addition, and due to increasing traction from conspiracy theories relating to COVID-19, a series of new questions were included in the second wave survey to assess the prevalence of conspiracy beliefs in the Australian population and how these were associated with attitudes toward the authorities.
The following sections of this report present: (a) the background literature informing the project, (b) the aims of the project, (c) the methodology used to collect the COVID-19 Wave 2 Survey data, and (d) a summary of the main findings obtained from the survey. Following this, the items used to construct key measures in the survey are presented. The actual survey instrument used for the COVID-19 Wave 2 Survey is then presented at the back of this report, with a detailed breakdown of participant responses provided to each survey item.
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