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Perceptions of Mental Health and Exploring the Role of Social Activism Among African Americans Exposed to Media Coverage of Police Brutality and Protests

open access: yesJournal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, 2022
This study explored the role of social activism in the association of exposure to media coverage of police brutality and protests with perceptions of mental health.
Adam C. Alexander   +10 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A CRITICAL PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS OF SELECTED TWEETS ON THE 2022 CHRISTMAS DAY MURDER IN NIGERIA

open access: yesUniversity of Chitral Journal of Linguistics and Literature, 2023
Police brutality among other forms of social injustice, has been a controversial issue generating mixed reactions from majority of the Nigerian citizens. While some perceive this vice as an adverse effect of indiscipline among the Nigerian police force,
Gambari-Olufadi Kifayat
doaj  

Re-presenting histories: Documentary film and architectural ruins in Brutality in Stone

open access: yesAlphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 2021
This article rereads Alexander Kluge and Peter Schamoni’s short film Brutality in Stone (1961) in light of more contemporary scholarly interest in the architectural ruin.
Frances Guerin
doaj   +1 more source

The Aden pivot? British counter-insurgency after Aden [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This article argues that the Aden Insurgency was a pivotal moment in the history of British counter-insurgency. We argue that it was in Aden where the newfound strength of human rights discourse, embodied in Amnesty International, and of anti-colonial ...
Dingli, Sophia, Kennedy, Caroline
core   +2 more sources

Police Brutality and Reforms in Pakistan

open access: yesJournal of Business and Social Review in Emerging Economies, 2020
Police Brutality has become one of the most important highlight around the globe. This study qualitatively investigates the form of police violence existent in Pakistan and also how this violence is related with the reforms enunciated.
Najma Sadiq   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The continuity of police brutality in post-apartheid South Africa

open access: yesScienceRise, 2022
The objects of this research are: First, to highlight that police brutality is still ongoing in South Africa despite the end of the apartheid regime in South Africa in 1994.
Shaka Yesufu
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Police brutality and torture similarities and differences [PDF]

open access: yesNBP: Nauka, bezbednost, policija, 2018
Numerous specifics of police violence, and above all the characteristics of the perpetrator and the circumstances under which such actions are undertaken, make research of this phenomenon problematic, but also challenging.
Kesić Zoran
doaj  

The precarious political economy of cobalt: Balancing prosperity, poverty, and brutality in artisanal and industrial mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

open access: yesThe Extractive Industries and Society, 2019
This study examines the political economy of cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. There, a veritable mining boom for cobalt is underway, driven by rising global demand needed for batteries and other modern digital devices.
B. Sovacool
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Islamic law and its application as penal code by the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS)

open access: yesCogent Arts & Humanities
The Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (and hereafter ISIS) is a globally renowned terrorist organisation. Although it was defeated in 2019, its threat continues to loom over the world.
Jacky Li Chun-Leung   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

New wine into old wineskins: A theological reflection on police brutality in South Africa [PDF]

open access: yesPharos Journal of Theology
South Africa is one of the most violent countries in the world with different types of violence associated with crime, gender-based violence, and sexual violence amongst others.
Katleho Mokoena
doaj   +1 more source

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