Police department design, political pressure, and racial inequality in arrests
Abstract This paper theorizes a source of bias in discretionary arrests: strategic limits on police officer learning. Officers have a variety of tactics at their disposal besides arrest that they use for less serious offenses when they judge the underlying behavior to be less severe. In departments led by a chief with special expertise in crime control,
Andrew J. McCall
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Minimum Legal Sales Age for e-Cigarettes: a Qualitative Study on the Implementation of Model Policy Components. [PDF]
Chadwick G +6 more
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(Non)belonging and (un)freedom
Abstract This article centers on the concept of “belonging” to argue that belonging and freedom are fundamentally related, and that this relationship cannot be easily captured in formal terms alone. I contend that experiences of incomplete belonging among citizens deserve attention from political science because, in addition to their more obvious ...
Yuna Blajer de la Garza
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Judicial assessment of testimonial reliability after EMDR therapy: a case-series analysis. [PDF]
Pacchioni F +5 more
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Abortion—A brief description of the evolution of methods
Termination of pregnancy is not a “modern” societal issue, but one that has been afforded to women, albeit with varying degrees of success, over many centuries. Methods have evolved which have increased the availability, effectiveness, and safety of abortion, while substantially reducing associated morbidity.
Laura Slade, Andrea Deussen, Jodie Dodd
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Value preference in forensic population: a systematic literature review of delay discounting among those who have committed an offence. [PDF]
Sebalo I +3 more
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Should Moral Repair Be Offered to Morally Injured Laboratory Animal Technicians?
ABSTRACT Lab‐technicians are at risk of sustaining moral injuries when complicit in unethical experiments. Prima facie, it would be puzzling to offer the perpetrator of an unethical experiment psychological support in the form of moral repair. However, we argue that lab technicians are owed moral repair as a special case of our proposed duty of special
John Goris, Jane Johnson
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Association of prior criminal charges and convictions with subsequent violent and firearm-related crime: a retrospective cohort study. [PDF]
Schleimer JP, Ross R, Rowhani-Rahbar A.
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Shaping Future Children, Sex Selection, and “Normal” Human Capacities
ABSTRACT If we think that parents have an obligation to have a healthy child then we need to know what counts as healthy, when male and female children are born with very different capacities. If we give up on the idea that our obligations to use technologies of genetic selection are discharged once we try to secure the birth of a healthy child, as ...
Robert Sparrow
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Nursing home availability for incarcerated persons granted compassionate release. [PDF]
Dayanim G +10 more
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