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Has Australia lost control of its tobacco and nicotine markets?

Addiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Australia has adopted two policies that the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends as best practice for tobacco control: it has steeply increased tobacco taxes since 2010 and only allowed access to nicotine vapes for medical use.
Ron Borland, James Martin, Edward Jegasothy, Ben Youdan, Wayne Hall   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Aboriginal community-led approach to reducing alcohol-related harm: A multiple baseline, stepped wedge evaluation. [PDF]

Public Health Pract (Oxf)
Snijder M, Wagemakers A, Calabria B, Byrne B, O'Neill J, Bamblett R, Stone C, Munro A, Oldmeadow C, Chiu S, Shakeshaft A.   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Australian Royal Commissions Into Child Welfare, Abuse and Protection

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Both nationally and internationally, the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (RCIRCSA) is widely viewed as a remarkably successful public inquiry. Unlike many other commissions, it was stable, attracted little controversy, was highly regarded, and led to extensive legal, regulatory and policy reform ...
Shurlee Swain, Katie Wright
wiley   +1 more source

Silent witness: a moss provides important evidence in solving a cemetery crime. [PDF]

Forensic Sci Res
von Konrat M, Stark L, Merkel J, Grauer A, Jakalski W, Kiefer P, Kreider D, Leafblad E, Lichamer A, Merrill G, Moran J, Quinn G, Seccombe D, Sodetz K, Thrun M.   +14 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The choice argument for proportional representation

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract What electoral system should a democracy choose? I argue for proportional representation (PR). My main empirical premise is Duverger's law: Under PR there are more viable candidates in district‐level elections than there are under single‐member plurality (SMP) systems.
Adam Lovett
wiley   +1 more source

Higher temperatures are associated with increased risk of police violence: A nationwide county-level study in the United States, 2013-2024. [PDF]

PLoS One
Zou J, Hou K, Xu X, Wang Z.
europepmc   +1 more source

Can riots represent? A democratic theory

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Political theory has been perennially concerned with interrogating, identifying, and clarifying the political functions of riots. Yet, political theorists have mostly fallen short of explaining the relationship between riots and democracy, although this is central to the democratic theory of contestation and crucial for evaluating the ...
Alexis Bibeau‐Gagnon
wiley   +1 more source

Femicide in Ethiopia: an autopsy-based cross-sectional study. [PDF]

BMC Womens Health
Lema AS, Suleyman JS, Jonnalagadda KK, Sekar SKR.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The political consequences of Africa's mobile revolution

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract What are the political consequences of rising domestic connectivity? I study this question in Sub‐Saharan Africa, asking how mobile technology shapes public opinion in geographically isolated communities. For remote rural populations, mobile devices increase contact with physically distant social networks, through regular phone calls with ...
Alex Yeandle
wiley   +1 more source

Police department design, political pressure, and racial inequality in arrests

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper theorizes a source of bias in discretionary arrests: strategic limits on police officer learning. Officers have a variety of tactics at their disposal besides arrest that they use for less serious offenses when they judge the underlying behavior to be less severe. In departments led by a chief with special expertise in crime control,
Andrew J. McCall
wiley   +1 more source