dangerosity

English

Etymology

From dangerous +‎ -osity; sometimes from French dangerosité.

Noun

dangerosity (uncountable)

1. The quality of being dangerous.
   • 1882 October 14, “Our Union Depot. A Stranger’s Opinion of the Ancient and Ricketty Sheds.”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch, volume XXXI, number 104, St. Louis, Mo., page 9:

     Naturally inquisitive, I ran the gauntlet of the place at the risk of my life. Remarking upon the “dangerosity” and its evident mismanagement to a stranger who proved to belong to the Forest City, he exclaimed. “Dangerous, well I should smile, and this is the great Union Depot of St. Louis. […]”

   • 1908 July 9, “Had the Sky High in His Grip Sack: Intoicated^[sic] Individual Had Clinton People Pretty Anxious”, in The Davenport Democrat and Leader, fifty-third year, number 223, Davenport, Iowa, page 8:

     He told of his dangerosity and liability to start an explosion that would blow up the court house and make the people in Lost Nation hunt their cyclone cellars.

   • 1913, The Record of Sigma Alpha Epsilon:

     For a long time now the United States Senate has contained a mining man; sometimes there have been two or three of them; but always one sturdy representative of those sturdier pioneers and prospectors who, daring dangers of increditable dangerosity, have delved into the bosom of old Mother Earth and brought forth her glittering treasures—or have not brought them forth, as the case may be.

   • 1946 March 10, Earle Ennis, “Scruples Don’t Hamper Ladies in Murder’s Art”, in Oakland Tribune, volume CXLIV, number 69, Oakland, Calif., page A-10:

     A recent survey showed that 60 per cent of murders committed in the United States were at the hands of women. The peak of their dangerosity was set as the month of July.

   • 1961, The Criminal Law Quarterly, page 53:

     Why should a hunting licence be granted without checking the “dangerosity” of the applicant?

   • 1970, International Study Week in Traffic Engineering and Safety Proceedings, pages 1–2:

     A comprehensive measure of dangerosity of a given highway section of length L (km) may be developed by formula of the following type: […] where AADT volumes on each section within each group are roughly equal, the absolute dangerosity of a given highway section of length L (km) may be assumed as a useful tool for the identification of black spots. […] On the basis of accident and traffic data for 1960 and 1965 two relative 'dangerosity studies, by calculating indexes (1) and (2), were conducted by Bottaro.

   • 1972, Proceedings, page 2:

     Prof. Trani gives formulae for calculating the relative dangerosity of a road section of a given length.

   • 1976, Minutes of Proceedings and Evidence of the Sub-Committee on the Penitentiary System in Canada, page 13-83:

     For one thing, we are going to be making those who are not dangerous dangerous by labelling them and those who are dangerous we are going to reinforce their dangerosity again by labelling and treating them.

   • 1975, Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs, page 40-16:

     The only other alternative is that if an inmate committed some act during his period of incarceration that could be considered in the vein of dangerosity, under the proposed legislation he could be so charged, and perhaps convicted, notwithstanding that he is an inmate of an institution.

   • 1976 February 27, Don Sellar, quoting Andre Therrien, “Dangerosity, retrofitting, and like that”, in The Windsor Star, Windsor, Ont., page 1:

     He is observed and tested for weeks to determine his various needs and his degree of dangerosity […] In addition, the degree of dangerosity of an inmate is constantly reviewed during his incarceration.

   • 1978, The Canadian Bar Review, page 188:

     Pitiless punishment of offences, on the theory of defence against “dangerosity”, as the only means of controlling crime, is rejected, along with theories of punishment based on vengeance, expiation or retribution.

   • 1979, Hostage-Taking, Theory and Practice, Lexington Books, page 22:

     Offender typologies have proven to be most effective in the prison context, especially in terms of Dawe’s dangerosity indicators.

   • 1980, Minutes of Proceedings and Evidence of the Standing Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs, page 11:

     […] better use of the records which exist in the system to give an early warning about the character and “dangerosity”, as they say, of an individual offender.

   • 1981, Annales internationales de criminologie, page 164:

     To this end, useful suggestions for the legislator can derive from a rational and systematic application of criminological expertise on the grounds of judicial verification of dangerosity, both in the ambit of the present discretion of the judge in the matter, and ”de jure condendo” as a corrective of the cases in point of presumption and, above all in the re-examination of dangerosity.

   • 1981, Canadian Journal of Criminology, page 456:

     One has the impression that at one stage the medical authorities involved in the treatment of Emerson Bonnar acted somehow as if a diagnosis such as schizophrenia, mental deficiency and dangerosity were criteria to consider somebody unfit to stand trial.

   • 1982, Christopher D. Webster, Robert J. Menzies, Margaret A. Jackson, Clinical Assessment Before Trial: Legal Issues and Mental Disorder, Toronto, Ont.: Butterworths, →ISBN, page 106:

     While dangerousness has been accorded an increasingly high profile in psychiatric decision making, at the same time the overwhelming evidence indicates that psychiatrists are unable to predict the “dangerosity” of their patients with any approximation of scientific precision.

   • 1982, Luc Gosselin, Prisons in Canada, Black Rose Books, page 129:

     We have reviewed the selection criteria, and seen that the factor given the most weight seemed to be the “dangerosity” of the criminal, especially in combination with the crime that had been committed;

   • 1982 May 29, Peter Menyasz, quoting Ted van Petegem, “Country club club prison where the livin’ is easy”, in The Weekend Sun, Vancouver, B.C., page B 6:

     The misconception is that Beaver Creek is all white-collar criminals. We do get most of those, but there aren’t very many of them in jail. The biggest factor considered in sending people here is the dangerosity — how big a threat he person is to the community

   • 1983, Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs, page 39-13:

     Senator Lapointe: You are recommending programs to reduce “dangerosity”. What kind of programs would they be? Would these programs be conducted in prison?

   • 1984, Actualités-justice, pages 5–7:

     The original criteria for admission into Special Handling Units was demonstrated dangerosity within the institution, chronic disruptiveness, or refusal to cooperate within the structures of the existing institution. […] A major related concern is that the preoccupation with internal security is exacerbating the problem of dangerosity in society upon the release of some inmates. […] Inmates to be kept in isolation only for that period of time required to defuse the dangerosity.

   • 1984, Criminologie, page 93:

     The concept of « dangerosity » as applied to a single individual excludes other forms of social violence.

   • 1984 March 19, Sue Yanagisawa, “Just how maximum is a maximum-security prison? It all depends on the institution’s ‘S’ rating”, in The Whig-Standard, Kingston, Ont., page 13:

     Prison authorities ask themselves “how likely are they (inmates) to try to escape and how dangerous are they likely to be to the public if they succeed,” [Dennis] Curtis said. Then “the dangerosity” of the inmate is matched to the security rating of the prison, he said.

   • 1986, Historical Social Research, page 23:

     At the same time the penal model gets more complex: beside the deterrence through penalty appears the diagnosis of dangerosity, which can lead to elimination if considered incurable or to “treatment” if considered curable.

   • 1986, L’Unión médicale du Canada, page 685:

     Criminality and Dangerosity of Mental Patients in the Community: Are They Preventable?

   • 1986, Minutes of Proceedings and Evidence of the Standing Committee on Justice and Solicitor General, page 22:

     One of the problems is that it is very difficult to predict “dangerosity”.

   • 1986, PASCAL Explore:

     Statistical approach of dangerosity in mentally ill subjects.

   • 1987, Law and Mental Health, page X:

     […] specialists should be the subject of research evaluation in conjunction with more elaborate undertakings for assessing characteristics of dangerosity of the entire population.

   • 1991, Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs, page 9-5:

     We are equally concerned about your awareness of the public perception of youth, youth offenses and youth dangerosity.

   • 1992, Psychanalyse à l'université, page 146:

     The uncanny animal figure entailed by the dangerosity of the rival, who separates the subject from the mother, is also the one which is linked with seduction.

   • 1995, The Georgia Review, page 880:

     Literature is always dangerous, and no prize means that someone’s literature has lost its “dangerosity” (if I can use this strange word). Think of Faulkner: his novels are very somber and pessimistic descriptions of the human being.

   • 1998, Violences:

     In court, however, this judiciary « objectivity » contributes to build the moral dangerosity of the homo criminalis and mark the sentence motivation.

   • 2001, B. Lasserre, P. Morlier, P. Galimard, “Long term mechanical behaviour of glued joints”, in S. Aicher, H.-W. Reinhardt, editors, Joints in Timber Structures: Proceedings of the International RILEM Symposium, RILEM Publications S.A.R.L., →ISBN, page 606:

     Experiments corresponding to realized simulations would allow to confirm presented results concerning the relative dangerosity of configurations. […] Comparisons have been made as a function of its relative dangerosity.

   • 2008, Calibration and Reliability in Groundwater Modelling: Credibility of Modelling, the International Association of Hydrological Sciences, →ISBN, page 85:

     On the basis of runoff coefficients based on land-use, slopes, and soil properties, Popescu et al. (2004) proposed an original method for quantifying a lateral “dangerosity” coefficient, taking into account how easily infiltration can occur in the considered pixel for a contaminant originating from another surface location in the catchment. This lateral dangerosity accounting for the lateral impact of a contamination is combined to a direct dangerosity accounting for the direct impact.

   • 2011, Robin M. Coupland, Markus A. Rothschild, Michael J. Thali, translated by Steve Rawcliffe, edited by Beat P. Kneubuehl, Wound Ballistics: Basics and Applications, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, page 250:

     This means that in order to describe the dangerosity of projectiles we require specific criteria based on the effects they may have on the human body.

   • 2004, B. Loret, A. Gajo, F.M. Simões, “Chemo-mechanical interactions in geological and biological materials: examples”, in Benjamin Loret, Jacques M. Huyghe, editors, Chemo-Mechanical Couplings in Porous Media Geomechanics and Biomechanics (CISM Courses and Lectures; No. 462), Springer-Verlag Wien GmbH, pages 143–144:

     Commotio cordis is characterized by a projectile impacting the chest and leading to sudden cardiac death, but without creating material damage. In fact, the dangerosity of such impacts depends much on the precise time during the heart beat at which they occur: they are much more dangerous if applied during diastole.

   • 2014, Yannis Haralambous, Julie Sauvage-Vincent, John Puentes, “INAUT, a Controlled Language for the French Coast Pilot Books Instructions nautiques”, in Brian Davis, Kaarel Kaljurand, Tobias Kuhn, editors, Controlled Natural Language: 4th International Workshop, CNL 2014, Galway, Ireland, August 20–22, 2014, Proceedings, Springer International Publishing Switzerland, →ISBN, page 111:

     Another extension deals with the issue of dangerosity. Indeed, one of goals of Instructions nautiques is to alert the navigator on possible dangers. Ideally, the ENC should automatically send queries about dangerosity to the knowledge base involving the current position of the vessel and various external conditions, and in case of a positive answer, alert the navigator by all means possible.

   • 2017, Remi Cayatte, “Framing and Ideological Discourse in the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Series”, in Nate Garrelts, editor, Responding to Call of Duty: Critical Essays on the Game Franchise (Studies in Gaming), Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 21:

     This mass destruction theme is present throughout the series, in the form of two nuclear blasts (in the first two games) as well as terrorist gas attacks (in the third one). Added to other recurring themes such as the potential dangerosity of isolated men (the three main antagonists of each game) or the threat posed by an alliance formed between a Middle Eastern dictator and terrorist forces, this theme deeply links post—9/11 reality and fiction.

   • 2016, Maximiliano E. Korstanje, “Rodanthi Tzanelli (2016). Thanatourism and cinematic representations of risk. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 978-113862564-4, 194 pg.”, in European Journal of Tourism Research, volume 14, page 138:

     At the periphery nations accept an allegory that explains further on their dangerosity, but in blaming others, central nations face an atmosphere of terror given by the internal enemy.

   • 2018 January 27, Martine Alfonso, “MUHC serious about security of staff, patients”, in Montreal Gazette, page A14:

     An emergency department psychiatry workgroup is finalizing a dangerosity tool that will be used by staff to recognize at-risk-of-violence patients, and flag them in our Med-Urge system.

Synonyms

• dangerousness

Translations

quality of being dangerous — see dangerousness