Silver Alert Programs: An Exploration of Community Sentiment Regarding a Policy Solution to Address the Critical Wandering Problem in an Aging Population

Petonito, Gina; Muschert, Glenn W.

doi:10.1007/978-1-4939-1899-7_18

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“…Furthermore, Petonito and Muschert (2015) discussed how Silver Alerts are a subset of CCT legal actions. Silver Alerts function similarly to AMBER Alerts in that they provide information about missing senior citizens, especially those with Alzheimer's disease or other mental disabilities (Petonito & Muschert, 2015). Although Silver Alerts do not address a criminal issue, they do meet many of the criteria of CCT.…”

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“…Miko and Miller (2010) argued that the implementation of this law is a version of CCT that focuses on health (thus coining the term health promotion theater ). Furthermore, Petonito and Muschert (2015) discussed how Silver Alerts are a subset of CCT legal actions. Silver Alerts function similarly to AMBER Alerts in that they provide information about missing senior citizens, especially those with Alzheimer’s disease or other mental disabilities (Petonito & Muschert, 2015).…”

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Crime control theater: Past, present, and future.

DeVault

Miller

Griffin

2016

Psychology, Public Policy, and Law

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Crime control theater (CCT) describes legal actions (e.g., policies) that appear to address crime but are sometimes ineffective and can potentially have unintended negative consequences. Four key criteria of CCT include reactionary response to moral panic, unquestioned acceptance and promotion, appeal to mythic narratives, and empirical failure. Social psychological phenomenon such as counterfactual thinking, emotions, and social cognition potentially influence individuals' support for CCT policies. A variety of legal actions-including AMBER Alerts, sex offender registration laws, 3-strikes laws, safe haven laws, and raids on the FLDS religious compounds-can be classified as crime control theater. Moreover, overselling these legal actions could be associated with a variety of potential dangers. For instance, the danger of overselling sex offender registration laws is that people focus on stereotypical sexual abuse (e.g., abuse committed by strangers) and underestimate the greater risk of sexual abuse among acquaintances. This article outlines the history of CCT, identifies specific legal actions that can be classified as CCT, identifies psychological phenomenon that might affect support for CCT policies, illustrates the dangers of overselling these legal actions, offers recommendations to avoid or improve theatrical legal actions, and offers future directions for researchers. This article concludes with an introduction to the special journal section examining the science of CCT.

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Section: Birth and Evolution Of Crime Control Theatermentioning

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Crime control theater: Past, present, and future.

DeVault

Miller

Griffin

2016

Psychology, Public Policy, and Law

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“…It is well documented that online forums like Twitter affect the political discourse and raises questions that need answers from the governments (Parmelee and Bichard, 2011). These questions can be related to incidents that happen rarely or can be related to the long-term political decisions or a potential problem for the country in the long-term ( ageing population (Petonito and Muschert, 2015) ). SA research has focused on public opinion about rural issues as well-issues pertaining to a section of the population that has limited to the internet where these issues are discussed, which is ironic to think about (Vagrani et al, 2020;Botterill, 2009;Singh et al, 2018Singh et al, , 2019Li et al, 2021).…”

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Applications and Challenges of Sentiment Analysis in Real-life Scenarios

Kanojia¹,

Joshi²

2023

Preprint

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Sentiment analysis has benefited from the availability of lexicons and benchmark datasets created over decades of research. However, its applications to the real world are a driving force for research in SA. This chapter describes some of these applications and related challenges in real-life scenarios. In this chapter, we focus on five applications of SA: health, social policy, e-commerce, digital humanities and other areas of NLP. This chapter is intended to equip an NLP researcher with the 'what', 'why' and 'how' of applications of SA: what is the application about, why it is important and challenging and how current research in SA deals with the application. We note that, while the use of deep learning techniques is a popular paradigm that spans these applications, challenges around privacy and selection bias of datasets is a recurring theme across several applications.

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“…Such consent is challenging to obtain from people living with dementia and their guardians. 16 On the other hand, standardized clinical assessment databases in home care and long-term care settings provide rich and informative data about persons at risk of going missing. 17,18 However, these data are not typically shared outside the immediate healthcare team.…”

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Data silos undermine efforts to characterize, predict, and mitigate dementia-related missing person incidents

Miguel-Cruz

Marshall

Daum

et al. 2022

Healthc Manage Forum

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It is estimated that up to 60% of people living with dementia go missing at least once during the course of their disease. Databases on missing incidents involving people living with dementia are managed in silos with minimal or incomplete data. A national strategy for the collection of data on missing incidents of people living with dementia would optimize time and resources spent on police and search and rescue and enhance chances of saving lives of those who go missing. Such a strategy would be a first step toward developing strategies to prevent future missing person incidents among this population. The objectives of this manuscript are to: (1) describe the issues and challenges related to the lack of integrated data on people living with dementia at risk of going missing, and (2) propose directions to create a national database.

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Silver Alert Programs: An Exploration of Community Sentiment Regarding a Policy Solution to Address the Critical Wandering Problem in an Aging Population

Cited by 10 publications

References 34 publications

Crime control theater: Past, present, and future.

Crime control theater: Past, present, and future.

Applications and Challenges of Sentiment Analysis in Real-life Scenarios

Data silos undermine efforts to characterize, predict, and mitigate dementia-related missing person incidents

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