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Carrying the Moral Burden of Safe Fieldwork

open access: yesThe Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, Volume 104, Issue 1, January 2023., 2023
Abstract Fieldwork in ecology and the environmental sciences often leads to negative physical and emotional outcomes for workers. I argue that this is largely due to an abdication of responsibility on the part of their supervisors, and that supervisors are charged with carrying three interlinked moral burdens: first, the duty of promoting safety ...
Benjamin Wong Blonder
wiley   +1 more source

A multilevel examination of the association between COVID-19 restrictions and residence-to-crime distance

open access: yesCrime Science, 2022
Restrictions resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic interrupted people’s daily routine activities. Rooted in crime pattern and routine activity theories, this study tests whether the enactment of a Safer-at-Home mandate was associated with changes in the ...
Theodore S. Lentz   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Staying under the Radar? Immigration Effects on Overdose Deaths and the Impact of Sanctuary Jurisdictions

open access: yesSocieties, 2023
Growing political and public rhetoric claim that immigration has contributed to drug crime and the overdose crisis of the 21st century. However, research to date has given little attention to immigration–overdose relationships, and almost no work has ...
Kelly Pierce, Diana Sun, Ben Feldmeyer
doaj   +1 more source

Reimagining Criminal Justice: The Lasting Effects of the 3 Strikes Law and Proposition 20 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Despite many people calling for cuts to police budgets this year, police unions have contributed more than half of the nearly $4 million raised for Proposition 20’s campaign deemed the “Reducing Crime and Keeping California Safe Act.” The proposition ...
Flores, Markie
core   +1 more source

2022 -2023 master training schedule [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
The South Carolina Criminal Justice Academy publishes information about each of its classes, including class limit, course location, course description, and who should ...
South Carolina Criminal Justice Academy
core  

The Genome-Wide Study of Human Social Behavior and Its Application in Sociology

open access: yesFrontiers in Sociology, 2019
Recent years have seen a push for the integration of modern genomic methodologies with sociological inquiry. The inclusion of genomic approaches promises to help address long-standing issues in sociology (e.g., selection effects), as well as open up new ...
Peter T. Tanksley   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Illuminating the Immigration–Crime Nexus: A Test of the Immigration Revitalization Perspective

open access: yesSocieties, 2023
Research shows that immigration is often associated with less crime. Yet, what remains unclear is why this is the case. The primary explanation for why immigration reduces crime, according to scholars, is the immigration revitalization thesis.
Javier Ramos   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Reimagining Criminal Justice: A New System Is Required for Police Accountability [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
In 1997 Daniel Mendoza was shot by an off-duty Las Vegas Metro police offcer. The offcer who pulled the trigger had been drinking heavily and wanted to “harass dopers and bangers.” The offcer in question fired into a group of people from the passenger ...
Johnson, Thomas
core   +1 more source

Innovating to amplify the voices of young people from marginalized ethnic migrant backgrounds

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract The meaningful participation of young people from marginalized ethnic backgrounds in civic processes is central to the social cohesion of increasingly diverse liberal democracies, but their participation is compromised by a range of barriers resulting in decision‐making that is disconnected from their lives.
Kelsey L. Deane   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Uncertainty in Criminal Justice Algorithms: simulation studies of the Pennsylvania Additive Classification Tool [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2021
Much attention has been paid to algorithms related to sentencing, the setting of bail, parole decisions and recidivism while less attention has been paid to carceral algorithms, those algorithms used to determine an incarcerated individual's lived experience. In this paper we study one such algorithm, the Pennsylvania Additive Classification Tool (PACT)
arxiv  

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