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The influence of extreme rainfall on crime: Spatiotemporal dynamics in Hunan Province, China. [PDF]

PLoS One
Zhang D, Xiao Y, Han Y, Li T, Li X, Chen X, Fang J, Zhong P, Ning Z.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Reasons, Mistakes, and Excuses

The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
Drawing on the theory of practical reasons, John Gardner has offered a seminal account of excuses in criminal law. His proposal is that an excuse asserts that the defendant acted for what she justifiably believed to be sufficient reason for her to perform the offending act although she had no such reason.
Andreas Vassiliou
wiley   +1 more source

Drug-Related Felony Processing in Nevada (2016-2023): Trends in Arrest, Conviction, and Structural Exposure. [PDF]

Cureus
Toro Ruilowa O, Atkins JB, Atkins MA, Stone AL.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

STREETS AS STAGES: Traffic Enforcement and the Competition for Cultural Growth in China

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In keeping with China’s desire to build soft power to parallel its economic growth, the policing of city streets has moved to the forefront as a mechanism for moral regulation and improving urban prestige. Under pressure to civilize their citizenry, many Chinese cities have become entrepreneurial cities within a type of cultural growth ...
Gregory Fayard
wiley   +1 more source

Somebody's going to emergency, somebody's going to jail: pre-booking diversion and officer discretion. [PDF]

Health Justice
McLean K, Suiter E, Shneibaum N, Miller BL.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

TROPICAL FRENCH THEORY: Henri Lefebvre and the Reinvention of Urban Planning in Havana, Cuba (1968–1971)

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Contributing to global urban history, planning theory and the geography of ideas, this article discusses the travels of Henri Lefebvre’s The Right to the City in the wake of May 1968, in France. That year, under the direction of Mario González and Max Baquero, a small team including the Italian architect Vittorio Garatti, French planner Jean ...
William Kutz
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of intelligence on social cognition in mentally disordered offenders: preliminary evidence in schizophrenia and personality disorders. [PDF]

Front Psychol
Ioannidis K, Magnenat L, Herrmann FR, Boulaguiem Y, Espinosa L, Giannakopoulos P, Weber K.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Criminal offense as criminal-legal feature of a victim

Analytical and Comparative Jurisprudence
It is indicated that the Criminal Code of Ukraine, in contrast to the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine, lacks a legal definition of such an important feature of a significant part of criminal offenses, the grounds of criminal responsibility for which are established in the national law on criminal responsibility, as the victim.
openaire   +1 more source

CARE AND CONTROL IN URBAN BRAZIL: The Subaltern Archive of Portarias

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Security infrastructures permeate everyday life in Brazilian cities. Although security guards and doormen play an important and omnipresent role as social and technological mediators, their practices and perceptions have received little attention.
Tilmann Heil, Susana Durão
wiley   +1 more source

Prevalence of pedophilia in a forensic psychiatric population in Switzerland: a comparative study of contact vs non-contact and pedophilic vs non-pedophilic offenders. [PDF]

Front Psychiatry
Anselmetti C, Renouard C, Murdocco M, Jantzi C.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source