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Tigers, black swans, and unicorns: The need for feedback and oversight

open access: yesForensic Science International: Synergy, 2019
Humans have a decision-making system which is biased to avoid costly false negatives while the criminal justice system is designed to be biased in the opposite way, avoiding costly false positives.
Max M. Houck
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Ministers’ Business Appointments and Criminal Misconduct [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2018
The offence of misconduct in office has an important role to play in the deterrence and punishment of corrupt conduct engaged in by officials. However, the offence has been underused against politicians. There should be a more politically engaged approach by the CPS and the courts to change this.
openaire   +1 more source

Australia's Migration Strategy: An Effective Response to Migrant Worker Exploitation?

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A series of publicised migrant worker injuries and deaths has drawn attention to the issue of migrant worker exploitation (MWE) in Australia. In response, the Australian Government has included ‘Tackling Worker Exploitation’ as a key area of its Migration Strategy which it introduced in 2023. However, it is unclear how effective the Strategy’s
Evelyn Dowling, Alexandra Ridgway
wiley   +1 more source

Affective dimensions in the information behavior of forcibly displaced people: A literature review. An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract This review analyzed 241 scholarly articles published between 2010 and 2025 in information science venues to examine how affect shapes refugees' information behavior during forced migration and to identify additional contextual factors. It identifies seven affective dimensions: anxiety, shame and stigma, grief and loss, frustration, (mis)trust,
Maja Krtalić, Lilach Alon
wiley   +1 more source

Breaking point: Identifying the factors that predict suspension from school

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract School suspensions are associated with adverse educational and psychosocial outcomes, yet little is known about how structural disadvantage, relational factors, health behaviours, well‐being indicators and school‐level factors jointly predict suspension risk in England.
Stephanie Cahill   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Specifics of Criminal (Civil) Liability for Economic Offenses

open access: yesRevista Jurídica Portucalense, 2023
The paper considers a different understanding of criminal offenses that arise from economic offenses. The authors note that, in general, economic relations do not generate criminal law relations.
Oleksii KHOVPUN   +4 more
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#MeToo - Implications for Criminal Law?

open access: yesBergen Journal of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, 2019
#MeToo became a powerful social movement, and the accusations of sexual misconduct destroyed the careers of many persons. In its first part, the article critically examines #MeToo, concluding that the naming and shaming of individuals in social media is ...
Tatjana Hörnle
doaj   +1 more source

Corruption Control and Corporate Hazardous Waste Emissions: Cross‐Country Evidence and the Moderating Role of Agenda 2030

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The aim of this study is to examine the impact of corruption control, as a public institutional mechanism, on hazardous waste emissions of private sector entities. We also examine the extent to which Agenda 2030 moderates the relationship. We analyse data from the top 500 global companies.
Babajide Oyewo   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fabrication and Falsification of Scientific Research – a Challenge for Legislators or an Irrelevant Issue?

open access: yesKrytyka Prawa
The article addresses the problem of fabrication and falsification of scientific research in the context of the role that lawmakers can play in combating this practice.
Oskar Skarbek
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Sanctions and punishments for crimes against the person in the Criminal Code of France

open access: yesУченые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные науки, 2020
The norms of the Criminal Code of France establishing penalties for crimes and misconduct against the person were compared with similar norms in the criminal law of some other states (Holland, Lithuania, Moldova, German Federal Republic, Sweden, Estonia,
F.B. Muljukov, A.G. Ibragimov
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