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Understanding Youth Assaults of Police Officers in Australia: A Power Threat Meaning Framework Analysis

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores youth violence towards police officers in Australia through the Power Threat Meaning Framework (PTMF) to better understand the underlying factors contributing to such violence; focusing on power dynamics, childhood adversity, and trauma.
Dimitra Lattas   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

După Legea Florian, Legea Oprea (After the Florian Law, the Oprea Law) [PDF]

open access: yesPolis: Revista de Stiinte Politice, 2016
Even though 2016 marks ten years since communism was declared as an illegitimate and criminal regime, no notable things happened for real condemnation of the atrocities committed by this regime.
Marius OPREA
doaj  

Sociology in Communist Romania: An Institutional and Biographical Overview

open access: yesStudia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Sociologia, 2017
Suppressed on ideological grounds, banned as academic discipline, and dismantled as scientific infrastructure in the first postwar years, sociology was re-institutionalized in communist Romania during the 1960s, largely on political grounds. Subsequently,
Bosomitu Ștefan
doaj   +1 more source

Lifecycles of Competition Systems: Explaining Variation in the Implementation of New Regimes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The aim of the study was to investigate the crimes and punishments that were commonly occurring between the years 1601-1651, and how the distribution was between men and women represented in the court in district Sjuhundra and Njurunda district.
Kovacic, William E.   +1 more
core   +1 more source

‘People Need to Understand That They Are Stealing From Their Neighbours’: A Critical Media Analysis of the Representations and Resistance Throughout the Robodebt Scheme

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Robodebt scheme issued thousand‐dollar debts to an estimated half a million people who had received social security. The debts were largely inaccurate and illegal, with the aim of improving the federal government's budget. The 2023 Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme found that the stigmatising political and public language about ...
Ella Kruger, Phillipa Evans
wiley   +1 more source

Hate Crime Legislation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
[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
core   +5 more sources

The Legislation for Providing Animal Access in Australian Residential Aged Care: It's Not a Zoo

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Providing meaningful animal contact to residential aged care facility (RACF) residents is problematic due to a lack of animal policies and National Guidelines. This paper examines how Australian Legislation could influence access to animal contact in RACFs and aims to answer the question, ‘Could current Legislation facilitate the development ...
Wendy Newton   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Organised crime

open access: yes, 2017
This chapter describes the emerging focus on situational crime prevention related to organised crime, an area in which repression and a law enforcement approach have been dominant. It focuses on both the theoretical background and critical remarks and shows that applying situational crime prevention to organised crime is less easy than to ordinary ...
Kleemans, E.R., Soudijn, M.R.J.
openaire   +2 more sources

‘The System Can't Cope’: The Service System Response to Alcohol and Other Drug‐Facilitated Sexual Violence

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Alcohol and other drug‐facilitated sexual violence can have significant impacts on victim‐survivors, yet little is known about what support service providers offer them. To understand the experiences and perceptions of service providers, interviews with counsellors, health workers, forensic toxicologists and harm reduction workers were ...
Jessica Ison   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Comparative study about Crimes against the Person's [PDF]

open access: yes
In this article I want talk about crimes against person's crimes witch cause objection of people's body and punishment by government in all societies. Now I trying to have a comparative research of most important crimes in this category in some countries
Radmanesh, Mansour, Zar Rokh, Ehsan
core   +1 more source

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