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Assisted Housing Mobility and the Success of Low-Income Minority Families: Lessons for Policy, Practice, and Future Research [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Based on results from the Gautreaux desegregation and Moving to Opportunity programs, discusses ways to make assisted housing mobility policies more effective in the long term, including experimenting with target populations and placement ...
Margery Austin Turner   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Sudan at War With Itself: Civilian Devastation in the Civil War

open access: yesConflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A civil war is raging in Sudan between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) along with militia groups. Beginning on April 15, 2023, and continuing at least to this writing (October 15, 2025), civilian noncombatants have been subjected to bombings, beatings, torture, shootings, rape, and murder on a large scale. Since
Daniel Rothbart   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Validating the Remotely Sensed Geography of Crime: A Review of Emerging Issues

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2014
This paper explores the existing literature on the active detection of crimes using remote sensing technologies. The paper reviews sixty-one studies that use remote sensing to actively detect crime.
Alice B. Kelly, Nina Maggi Kelly
doaj   +1 more source

Defining Reconciliation Studies: Theoretical and Practical Dimensions

open access: yesConflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Reconciliation studies (RS) has become increasingly influential in understanding alternative views to ending conflict and dealing with the aftermath. As a discipline or field, however, it is not well defined. The actual usefulness of reconciliation (as a concept), or of RS (as a discipline), is debated, and due to its growing usage, it is ...
Colleen Alena O’Brien
wiley   +1 more source

Different Forms of Discrimination in the Criminal Justice System [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Focusing on discretion by the police, criminal justice practitioners and the courts at different stages in the criminal justice process, this chapter explores whether their judgements and decisions contribute to the overrepresentation of those from black,
Webster, CS
core  

Do CSR Committees Moderate the Relationship Between Democratic Societies and Firm Innovation? An International Overview

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to provide evidence of the impact of civil liberties and political rights on corporate innovation, through the lens of institutional theory. Moreover, the research also analyses the moderating role of the CSR committee in the relationships between civil liberties and innovation, and political rights and innovation.
Isabel Gallego‐Álvarez   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Investigating Factors Affecting Fear of Crime among Iranian Citizens Using the Meta-Analysis Method [PDF]

open access: yesمسائل اجتماعی ایران, 2019
The fear of crime is one of the most important subjects of sociology, urban studies, and criminology, because of its devastating effects on the lives of citizens.
Simin Afshar   +3 more
doaj  

Ethical Behaviour and Corporate Financing. The Case of ‘Legality Rating’

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The financial crisis has heightened awareness of ethical and legal issues in the business context. Corporate ethical behaviour is increasingly measured through sustainability ratings. Since 2012, in Italy, the introduction of a sustainability rating, namely the legality rating (LR), has served as an innovative ‘label’ for socially responsible ...
Federica Doni   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Review of current practices in recording road traffic incident data: with specific reference to spatial analysis and road policing policy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Road safety involves three major components: the road system, the human factor and the vehicle element. These three elements are inter-linked through geo-referenced traffic events and provide the basis for road safety analyses and attempts to reduce ...
Anderson, Tessa
core   +1 more source

Skin Shade Discrimination Is Associated With Disordered Weight Control Behaviors in Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand

open access: yesInternational Journal of Eating Disorders, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Emerging evidence indicates that experiencing discrimination is associated with disordered eating. This study aimed to test the association between experiences of colorism (skin shade discrimination penalizing those with darker skin) and the prevalence of disordered weight control behaviors (DWCBs) in four Asian countries/regions ...
Nadia Craddock   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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