Results 21 to 30 of about 138,656 (300)

Gatherings of mobility and immobility: itinerant “criminal tribes” and their containment by the Salvation Army in colonial South India [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
In retelling the history of “criminal tribe” settlements managed by the Salvation Army in Madras Presidency (colonial India) from 1911, I argue that neither the mobility–immobility relationship nor the compositional heterogeneity of (im)mobility ...
Arora, Saurabh
core   +1 more source

Degrees of permeability: confinement, power and resistance in Freetown's Central Prison

open access: yes, 2020
This article deconstructs a binary that has arisen between prisons as, on the one hand, ‘total institutions’ of exclusion and, on the other, ‘carceral continuums’ that incorporate marginalized urban livelihoods. The experiences of four inmates at Pademba
Schneider, L.
core   +2 more sources

Resistance against the Mafia: A Civic Struggle to Defy an Uncontestable Power [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This study is based on participant observation of a protest against the Mafia that occurred in Rome on 26 September 2009. First, this essay offers an analysis by using symbols and their meanings, which are illustrated through the 'pyramid of social ...
Cayli, Baris
core   +1 more source

Criminal Anthropology [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Mental Science, 1896
The nineteenth Year-Book (1894) of the New York State Reformatory reflects, even at the first glance, the period of trouble from which the Reformatory has only lately emerged. It is a very plain and unpretentious document, without even a single illustration. Although the charges which have been brought against the Superintendent, Mr.
openaire   +1 more source

Justice in Many Rooms Since Galanter: De-Romanticizing Legal Pluralism Through the Cultural Defense [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Sharafi explores the emergence of legal pluralism during 1970s and 80s and discusses its relation in the cultural defense. Legal pluralism was more than a methodological stance intended to help lawyers and anthropologists talk to each other; it was an ...
Sharafi, Mitra
core   +3 more sources

Contracting eastern African C4 grasslands during the extinction of Paranthropus boisei

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2021
The extinction of the Paranthropus boisei estimated to just before 1 Ma occurred when C4 grasslands dominated landscapes of the Eastern African Rift System (EARS). P.
Rhonda L. Quinn, Christopher J. Lepre
doaj   +1 more source

From Research to Practice: Using Assessment and Early Intervention to Improve Student Success in Introductory Statistics

open access: yesJournal of Statistics Education, 2018
In this study we used an assessment tool evaluated in a previous study to identify students who were at-risk of not being successful in our introductory statistics course. We then required these students to attend peer tutoring, early in the semester, as
M. Leigh Lunsford   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Green Space, Air Pollution, Weather, and Cognitive Function in Middle and Old Age in China

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2022
Prior research has shown that environmental hazards, such as limited green space, air pollution, and harmful weather, have the strong adverse impact on older adults' cognitive function; however, most of the studies were conducted in developed countries ...
Lingling Zhang   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Forensic science expertise for international criminal proceedings: an old problem, a new context and a pragmatic resolution [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Expert witness testimony provides an important source of information for international criminal proceedings, and forensic science expertise from mass graves is no exception: findings from exhumations and examinations have featured in the ad hoc ...
Klinkner, Melanie Josefine
core   +1 more source

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy