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Opportunities and Alliances: The Relational Dynamics of Criminal Collusion in Latin America
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Mexico and judicial wiretap analysis in Argentina, this paper shows that collusion between state actors and violent non‐state actors operates through fluid and competitive relational networks rather than stable hierarchies or fixed institutional arrangements.
Eldad J. Levy, Javier Auyero
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using biographical methods, the study explores the lives of 34 young people undertaking engineering apprenticeships in Teesside, Northeast England. It examines why working‐class youth in a deindustrialised region might be attracted to engineering, how they might secure apprenticeship, and the invaluable role households play in orchestrating ...
Anoop Nayak, Graham Gaunt
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auto-differentiation/XAD: v1.5.0
<h2>Added</h2> <ul> <li>Python bindings as <a href="https://pypi.org/project/xad-autodiff/">xad-autodiff</a> in https://github.com/auto-differentiation/XAD/pull/98</li> <li>Added <code>std::is_signed&
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Journal of Analytical Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Written as a letter to my 28‐year‐old self, this paper explores the development of my engagement with cultural complexes. On August 18, 2009, I finished a chapter applying cultural complexes to a history of China, complete with elaborate charts that seemed to confirm a process by which cultural complexes are formed, and how China’s then recent
Kevin Lu
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Commoning Ethnography 1(1) Full Issue
, 2018 This is a compiled PDF of the first issue of Commoning Ethnography ...
Editorial Collective, Commoning Ethnography
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Interactional privilege of violence: Status and interaction in the street field
Criminology, EarlyView.Abstract Criminologists have long described and theorized the relationship between status, respect, and violence within urban communities. Although this finding is generally accepted within criminology, ethnographic empirical illustrations of this phenomenon are sparse.
Hakan Kalkan, Heith Copes
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Auto/Ethnography and the Question of Ethics
, 2010 Auto/ethnography has emerged as an important method in the social sciences for contributing to the project of understanding human actions and concerns.
Roth, Wolff-Michael
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Criminology, EarlyView.Abstract Drawing on 576 interviews with incarcerated men and 131 correctional staff across five Western Canadian prisons, we reconceptualize the prison code as subcultural law, documenting the “informal prisoner justice system” as its enforcement arm. Although scholars have treated the code primarily as cultural values prescribing loyalty, silence, and
Luca Berardi +3 more
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Optimizing patrol time in crime hot spots: Replicating the “Koper Curve”
Criminology &Public Policy, EarlyView.Abstract Research Summary In a study published more than 30 years ago, Koper found that patrol visits to crime hot spots were most effective in deterring crime and disorder when they were 11–15 min in length. This finding, popularly known as the “Koper Curve,” has had a substantial influence on police practice and research.
Christopher S. Koper +2 more
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African Journal of Inter-Multidisciplinary StudiesThe education system is built on the binary student-lecturer relationship. Each player is located on the other side of the wall, which was unsettled by the effects of COVID-19. The aim of the study is to dismantle the wall of separation which is widened
Berrington Ntombela +2 more
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