Examples of vandalism

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Figure 1 presents the shape of the trajectory groups for the three dependent variables: physical aggression, vandalism, and theft.
The respective probabilities for the two groups were 31.0 versus 18.3% for physical aggression, 64.3 versus 46.1% for vandalism, and 31.0 versus 27.0% for theft.
As with the majority of the attacks against individuals, most of the reports of plant 'vandalism' emanated from market towns.
With a hostile crowd even these regular precautions might not prevent vandalism.
Crime and vandalism are rare, social problems hard to find.
Although barely noted at the time, the idea has recently been adapted with apparently great success in railway stations notoriously susceptible to vandalism.
Rules are always made to be broken, but without rules all the thrill goes out of vandalism.
By contrast, the contemporary local community was commonly associated with stories of isolation, vandalism, burglary and harassment.
In practice, vandalism in particular is easily and quickly 'reverted'.
The first two hypotheses dealt with the number and shape of developmental trajectories for physical aggression, vandalism, and theft.
They also answered questions pertaining to vandalism and theft but only interpersonal violence and substance use were used in this study.
I have never committed a crime, except for vandalism.
We offer both a theoretical and a methodological explanation for the apparently differential impact of the intervention on trajectories of physical aggression, vandalism, and theft.
Similar results were observed for the vandalism and theft trajectories.
Their vandalism was no more than an example of that disorder and irrationality held by elites to be a defining characteristic of the lower orders.
The etymology of 'vandalism' suggests a more deliberate agency.
The intervention group is less likely than the control group to follow these high-level trajectories of physical aggression (16.6 vs. 29.5%), vandalism (9.5 vs. 17.4%), and theft (7.2 vs. 20%).
Statistical analyses did not show any significant differences between the intervention and the control group for physical aggression (7.1 vs. 10.4%), vandalism (4.8 vs. 12.2%), and theft (14.3 vs. 18.3%).
Property offenses included 20 items such as vandalism, breaking and entering, motor vehicle theft, embezzlement from work, shoplifting, several other kinds of thefts, and several kinds of frauds.
When the idea of a survey of the stations was first mooted in the late 1970s, these three were still largely intact despite the ravages of weather, looting, and vandalism.
To achieve this general objective we identified groups of boys who followed, during adolescence, distinct developmental trajectories for three types of antisocial behaviors: physical aggression, vandalism, and theft.
A somewhat greater proportion of individuals followed this trajectory compared to the high rising trajectory for physical aggression (12%); proportions are similar for vandalism (5.9%) and theft (6.9%).
Residents in housing developments often complain of vandalism of communal areas, and current wisdom seems to suggest such areas are minimized in favour of private gardens.
Reading the world's liberal media, it was as if the soul of humanity, embodied in its cultural expressions, had been permanently violated by an almost incomprehensible act of vandalism.
From this perspective, the intervention that was aimed at disruptive behavior may not have dealt sufficiently with factors leading to high-level trajectories of vandalism, for example.
We first present findings on the number, shape, and prevalence of trajectories for physical aggression, vandalism, and theft using the whole sample (hypotheses 1 and 2).
As described, the total antisocial behavior score that was used to analyze the developmental trajectories comprised various types of behavior, including physical violence, vandalism, theft, and alcohol and drug use.
French aperitif advertisers, generally satisfied with long-term advertising, were prepared to pay a premium to place posters in a metro station away from bad weather or vandalism.
I agree that the number of policemen is an important consideration in keeping down vandalism.
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