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Shootings, seizures, and speed: a quasi-experimental study of gunshot detection technology in a mid-sized capital city

open access: yesCrime Science
Existing evaluations of gunshot-detection technology (GDT) overwhelmingly study large urban departments, leaving its effectiveness for mid-sized agencies unclear.
Hunter M. Boehme   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Lessons Learned, Lessons Lost: Immigration Enforcement\u27s Failed Experiment with Penal Severity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This article traces the evolution of “get tough” sentencing and corrections policies that were touted as the solution to a criminal justice system widely viewed as “broken” in the mid-1970s.
Miller, Teresa A.
core   +2 more sources

Mapping Intimate Partner Financial Abuse Across Public and Private Systems

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article maps the ways that intimate partner financial abuse presents, and the range of public and private entities involved in its perpetration. It reports on an analysis of submissions by individuals to the Australian parliamentary inquiry into the Financial Services Regulatory Framework in Relation to Financial Abuse.
Adrienne Byrt   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Smart Justice in Alaska [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Smart justice initiatives seek to reform criminal justice systems by reducing correctional populations and recidivism while lowering costs, maintaining offender accountability, and ensuring public safety.
Armstrong, Barbara
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‘Turkeys Cannot Vote for Christmas’: Why Epistemic Disobedience in an Anti‐Black World Matters

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Never in the history of global coloniality has the idea of epistemic disobedience been as important as in the 21st century. This is not only because the struggle for decolonisation has shifted from physical confrontation between the coloniser and the colonised into a battle of ideas but also because the former has deployed the idea of ...
Morgan Ndlovu
wiley   +1 more source

On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
wiley   +1 more source

Franklin County Justice Programs Unit Asset Inventory: Justice System Data Profile [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
CRP used key informant interviews and a mail survey to develop an asset inventory and needs assessment for the Franklin County criminal justice system. In addition, CRP prepared an overview of data that describe trends and conditions in Franklin County ...

core  

‘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

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