Social Safety and Security

114 Pages·2020·0.738 MB·English

by  Joannes Chliaoutakis (editor)

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Social Safety
and Security
Edited by
Joannes Chliaoutakis
Printed Edition of the Special Issue Published in Safety
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Social Safety and Security

Social Safety and Security
SpecialIssueEditor
JoannesChliaoutakis
MDPI•Basel•Beijing•Wuhan•Barcelona•Belgrade
SpecialIssueEditor
JoannesChliaoutakis
HellenicMediterraneanUniversity
Greece
EditorialOffice
MDPI
St.Alban-Anlage66
4052Basel,Switzerland
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Contents
AbouttheSpecialIssueEditor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
Prefaceto”SocialSafetyandSecurity” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
SanniYayaandBishwajitGhose
AlcoholDrinkingbyHusbands/PartnersIsAssociatedwithHigherIntimatePartnerViolence
againstWomeninAngola
Reprintedfrom:Safety2019,5,5,doi:10.3390/safety5010005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
MariaPapadakaki,AngelosTsalkanis,DimitraProkopiadou,MarthaGoutsouand
JoannesChliaoutakis
IsSexualAssaultaProbleminGreekPrisons?InitialEvidencefromaGreekMalePrison
Reprintedfrom:Safety2019,5,84,doi:10.3390/safety5040084 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
JuliaC.BabcockandJasonCooper
TestingtheUtilityoftheNeuralNetworkModeltoPredictHistoryofArrestamongIntimate
PartnerViolentMen
Reprintedfrom:Safety2019,5,2,doi:10.3390/safety5010002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
MelodyM.Terras,GillianHendryandDominicJarret
TheChallengesofSafetyandCommunityIntegrationforVulnerableIndividuals
Reprintedfrom:Safety2019,5,85,doi:10.3390/safety5040085 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Tor-OlavNævestad,AlexandraLaiou,RossO.Phillips,TorkelBjørnskauandGeorgeYannis
SafetyCultureamongPrivateandProfessionalDriversinNorwayandGreece:Examiningthe
InfluenceofNationalRoadSafetyCulture
Reprintedfrom:Safety2019,5,20,doi:10.3390/safety5020020 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
VagioulaTsoutsi,DimitrisDikeos,MariaBastaandMariaPapadakaki
DrivingBehaviourinDepression:FindingsfromaDrivingSimulatorStudy
Reprintedfrom:Safety2019,5,70,doi:10.3390/safety5040070 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
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About the Special Issue Editor
JoannesChliaoutakis(MSc, PhD).HeisanEmeritusProfessorofsociologyattheDepartmentof
SocialWorkoftheHellenicMediterraneanUniversity(HMU)andresearcherintheLaboratoryof
Health and Road Safety. He served as the Head of the Department of Social Work from 2004 till
2006. Since2009,hehasbeentheHeadoftheSchoolofHealthandSocialWelfareSciences,HMUin
Crete. Since2005, hehasbeenamemberoftheExecutiveBoardoftheMaster’sDegreeProgram
“Environmental & Occupational Health-Management & Financial Assessment” organized by the
MedicalSchool,UniversityofAthens.Since1988,hehasworkedasaresearcherintheGreekInstitute
ofChildHealth,the-ECproject,andtheEuropeanLongitudinalStudyofPregnancy&Childhood.
Hehaspublishedseveralpapersininternationalandnationalscientificjournalsinthefieldofroad
safety, sexual and reproductive health, HIV/AIDS and Assisted Reproductive Technologies. He
servedastheDirectorofStudiesfortheproject“Gender&Equity”oftheOperationalProgrammefor
EducationandInitialVocationalTraining(O.P.“Education”)from2005till2009.Recently,hehasbeen
involvedinvariousECprojectsconcerningsafedrivingbehaviour,e.g.theCOSTaction357Accident
Prevention Options with Motorcycle Helmets; the COST action TU1101 Helmet Optimization in
Europe; the three-year project titled “Reducing the harm and the burden of injuries and human
losscausedbyroadtrafficcrashesandaddressinginjurydemandsthrougheffectiveinterventions”
(asaCoordinator)carriedoutinGreece,GermanyandItalywithfundingbytheDGMobilityand
Transport(MOVE/C4/SUB/2011-294/SI2.628846/REHABIL-AID);theMOBIHAVEproject(theuse
ofmobilephoneswhiledriving,supportedbynationalfunds). Inaddition,hehasworkedonprojects
dealing with gender role and differences, e.g. the Youth Sexual Violence 2009 1222 (EAHC); and,
twoDAPHNEprojects(JUST/2011-2012/DAP/AG/3272andJUST/2011-2012/DAP/AG/3008)on
sexualharassmentandviolenceagainstwomen(intheoneasaCoordinator). Finally, hehasover50
researcharticles(since2014,hehasreceivedover850citationsandgainedanh-indexof18).
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Preface to ”Social Safety and Security”
As most experienced readers appreciate the international scientific review of Safety for its
uniqueperspectiveonvulnerableindividualsandrisk-relatedbehavioursinvariousmanifestations
ofourdailylife,wehaveorganizedthepublicationofaSpecialIssuethatfocusesonanumberof
contemporaryissuesinsocialsafetyandsecurity. Thispublicationprovidesthelatestresearchin
importantthematicareas,highlightingintimatepartnerviolenceagainstwomen,alcoholuse,inmate
sexualvictimizationofmalesduringincarceration,andtheutilityofmodernmodelstopredictthe
historyofarrestamongintimatepartnerviolentmen.Similarly,findingsarepresentedforvulnerable
individualsconcerningthechallengesoftheirsafetyandcommunityintegration. Withintheissue,
twokeypublicationsonroadsafetyshedlighton,first,thecomparisonofroadsafetystatusbetween
GreeceandNorway,andsecond,ontheevaluationofthedrivingfactorsindepression.
This publication begins, in Chapter 1, with investigating the predictors of intimate partner
violence against women in a sub-Saharan country experiencing a booming alcohol industry. In
Chapter2,thecrucialtopicofsexualvictimizationofavulnerablegroupinGreekprisonsisdiscussed
bypresentingfindingsfromarecentresearch. InChapter3,thepredictionofahistoryofarrestin
menwhoperpetrateintimatepartnerviolenceiscoveredusingnon-linearneuralnetworkmodels.
The4thchapterwaswrittentocapturethefindingsfromanexcitingcommunity-basedprojectto
createamorewelcomingandsafecommunityforallmembers,especiallymorevulnerablemembers
suchasthosewithdementiaand/oranintellectualdisability. Thenextcontribution,inChapter5,
isacross-culturalstudywhichcomparesroadsafetycultureamongprivateandprofessionaldrivers
insignificantlydifferentcontextsinNorwayandinGreece. InChapter6,thefocusshiftsondata
resultingfromadriversimulatorexperimentinGreeceevaluatingdrivingperformanceindepression
betweenpatientsandhealthydrivers.
Wehopethisworkwillbeofassistancetotheintendedaudience(researchersandpolicymakers)
tospurfutureresearchandbestpracticesintherespectiveareascovered.
JoannesChliaoutakis
SpecialIssueEditor
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