Results 231 to 240 of about 29,060 (299)

De Stupro: First Insights on Rape and Its Prosecution in Maltese Courts (1701–10)

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article constitutes a first in‐depth investigation of rape and the prosecution of this crime in early eighteenth‐century Malta. The research, which is based on sixteen rape accusations claimed at the secular courts in Malta between 1701 and 1710, has analysed cases categorized as ‘simple rape’, ‘violent rape’ and rape committed under the ...
Vanessa Buhagiar
wiley   +1 more source

A dynamical systems analysis of criminal behavior using national longitudinal survey of youth data. [PDF]

PLoS One
McMillon D, Morenoff J, Simon C, Lane E.
europepmc   +1 more source

‘I, Me, Myself’: Selfhood and Melancholy in the Journals of Gertrude Savile (1697–1758)

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the journals of Gertrude Savile from 1727 in light of recent scholarship on early modern and eighteenth‐century melancholy. The concept had myriad associations with medicine, physiology, the imagination, and feeling, but questions remain about how melancholy during this period was considered by those outside the narrow ...
Daniel Beaumont
wiley   +1 more source

The Legal Regulation of Cybercrimes related to Character Assassination under the Jordanian and French Legislation. [PDF]

F1000Res
Al-Rai A, Imad D, Khater M.
europepmc   +1 more source

Crossroads of the Life of Vittorio Alfieri

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines Vittorio Alfieri's Life as a deliberately constructed narrative of cultural, linguistic, and political self‐fashioning within eighteenth‐century European intellectual networks. Rather than treating the autobiography as a transparent record of experience, the article argues that Alfieri retrospectively reorganizes his ...
Sara Gallegati
wiley   +1 more source

Sanctions, National Security, and Free Speech

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A fundamental, but largely overlooked, aspect of the New Washington Consensus is the use of national security arguments to restrict speech and punish disfavored speakers. Although the United States has a longer history of using sanctions to restrict speech in the terrorism context, it has recently applied sanctions to restrict political speech,
Joshua Andresen
wiley   +1 more source

Mitigating Disinformation with Civic Constitutionalism: The Case Study of Taiwan

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amid growing concerns over information integrity, disinformation has evolved into a broader and more complex phenomenon now recognized as Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI), posing significant threats to democratic governance.
Wen‐Chen Chang, Yu‐teng Lin
wiley   +1 more source

The Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility Internationally-History, Systems and the Future. [PDF]

Crim Behav Ment Health
Delmage E, Anderson P, Blower A, Brown A, Davoren M, Enell S, Gibson R, Henriksen AK, Johns D, Kaltiala R, Carvalho MJL, Pol TMV, Mulder E, Oostermeijer S, Orlando MS, Souverein F, Taylor P, Thibaut F, Hales H.   +18 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Deterrence Through Resilience and Civil Preparedness: The Comprehensive and Militarised Models of Civil Defence

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As hybrid threats blur the line between war and peace and challenge conventional deterrence logics, states increasingly turn to concepts of resilience, civil preparedness and whole‐of‐society as elements of their security strategies. This raises the question of how civilian agency can be viewed as an element of deterrence and what the ...
Agata Mazurkiewicz, Heljä Ossa
wiley   +1 more source