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S o c ia l S a fe t y a n d S e c u r it y • J o a n n e s C h lia o u ta k is Social Safety and Security Edited by Joannes Chliaoutakis Printed Edition of the Special Issue Published in Safety www.mdpi.com/journal/safety 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 ThisisareprintofarticlesfromtheSpecialIssuepublishedonlineintheopenaccessjournalSafety (ISSN 2313-576X) in 2019 (available at: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/safety/specialissues/ SocialSafetyandSecurity). Forcitationpurposes,citeeacharticleindependentlyasindicatedonthearticlepageonlineandas indicatedbelow: LastName,A.A.; LastName,B.B.; LastName,C.C.ArticleTitle. JournalNameYear,ArticleNumber, PageRange. ISBN978-3-03928-146-6(Pbk) ISBN978-3-03928-147-3(PDF) (cid:2)c 2020bytheauthors. 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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 v 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). vii 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 ix
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