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[Excerpt] On October 28, 2009, President Barack Obama signed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act into law, as Division E of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 (P.L. 111-84; H.R. 2647).
Krouse, William J
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ABSTRACT As new regulations emerge to address deforestation and unsustainable land use, their interaction with existing national frameworks remains uncertain. This study examines the (in)coherence between the European Union Regulation on deforestation‐free products (EUDR) and domestic deforestation and land use regulations in Brazil, Cameroon and Gabon.
R. F. Ziegert +5 more
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Good practice? invest in a framework! [PDF]
M any reports on major national initiatives like the Crime Reduction Programme acknowledge ‘implementation failure’. Common explanations are ‘poor project-management skills’,or ‘short-term funding regimes’.
Ekblom, Paul
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ABSTRACT Citizens’ responses to policies depend on narrative meaning‐making. Through the lens of the COVID‐19 pandemic in Ecuador, this study addresses calls for increased insights into how processes of responding to government measures function during societal crises and ruptures.
Ella Marie Sandbakken
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The Social Disorganization Theory Approach as a Crime Prevention Effort in Sumenep, Indonesia
Rusmilawati Windari, Tolib Effendi
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Intergroup Contact With Refugees Shapes Levels of Social Fear of Crime
ABSTRACT Intergroup contact affects how people see the world more broadly. Across four studies (Ntotal = 1,743), we tested whether valenced intergroup contact with refugees as a criminally stigmatized group affects social fear of crime mediated by prejudice.
Patrick F. Kotzur +3 more
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What We Spend and What We Get: Public and Private Provision of Crime Prevention [PDF]
In this paper, we consider a number of issues regarding crime prevention and criminal justice. We begin by considering how crime is measured and present both general and specific evidence on the level of crime in a variety of countries.
Ann Dryden Witte, Robert Witt
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Is there a need for identity cards? [PDF]
Commentary by Stephen Mason on the issues and practicalities involved in government introduction of compulsory registration cards - in particular claims regarding prevention of terrorism and crime.
Mason, Stephen
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ABSTRACT Theories of interpersonal sensemaking postulate that positive interactions emerge in interactions where speakers match on motivational frames. Across three experiments (N = 1609) using a hypothetical simulation framework, we provide the first evidence of a causal link between motivational frame matching and positive interaction outcomes in ...
Mattias Sjöberg +2 more
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