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Cohesion Without Consensus: Attitudinal Profiles of Social Cohesion in Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Headline indicators of social cohesion in Australia have remained stable in recent years despite rising political polarisation and declining institutional trust worldwide. Yet recent protests and incidents of ethnically and politically motivated violence suggest that cohesion may be under strain. If cohesion is understood not as the pursuit of
John van Kooy
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Effects of Hot Spots Policing on Crime

Campbell Systematic Reviews, 2007
This Campbell systematic review synthesizes the existing published and non‐published empirical evidence on the effects of focused police crime prevention interventions at high‐activity crime places and will provide a systematic assessment of the ...
Anthony A. Braga
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Identifying the Service Requirements for Primary Sexual Assault Medical Care and Forensic Evidence Collection in a Remote First Nations Community

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT First Nations female sexual assault survivors in remote Northern Territory (NT) face significant barriers accessing place‐based medical care and forensic evidence collection, subsequently requiring evacuation to specialist services. Using decolonising Participatory Action Research methods, this study identified the workforce, training, and ...
Theresa Clasquin, Rachel Dikul Baker, Rosemary Gundjarranbuy, Annie Whybourne, Sue Kildea, Sue Kruske, Elaine Ḻäwurrpa Maypilama, Sarah Ireland   +7 more
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Criminality and penal policy [PDF]

Glasnik Advokatske komore Vojvodine, 2017
In combating and preventing criminality in general, one of the segments is a penal policy. However, prescribing the strict penalties by increasing a special minimum and maximum will not reduce criminality. In particular, it will not be achieved by prescribing the prohibition of mitigation on imprisonment sentence for the most serious crimes.
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Volunteering, Crime and Secondary School Attendance: Evidence From Queensland

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Student absenteeism is a critical issue in Australia and worldwide, with alarming declines in attendance rates further exacerbated by the COVID‐19 pandemic. While research has long highlighted the relevance of school and family factors, less is known about how the broader community context shapes attendance.
Matthias Kubler, Brooklyn Corbett, Annemaree Carroll, Martin Mills, Deborah Lynch, Wojtek Tomaszewski   +5 more
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Where Imprisonment, Housing Instability and Wellbeing Intersect: Evidence From Over Two Decades of Data

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study draws on life event data on housed former prisoners from the nationwide indefinite life panel, Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey, spanning more than two decades. This study investigates, using panel data methods, if social connectedness mediates the association between incarceration and unstable ...
Christopher L. Ambrey, Renee Zahnow
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

Journal 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
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Optimal Criminal Policy

Actual Problems of Russian Law
The paper is devoted to the analysis of domestic criminal policy, its effectiveness and the possibility of optimization. The state of criminal law and the criminal legal reality based thereon raises doubts about the very existence of criminal policy as a targeted activity of the state in the sphere of combating crime.
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Critical questions for documenting collections as data: Provocations from developing datasheets for web archives datasets

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Scholarship on documentation of datasets is increasingly concerned with capturing the context, socio‐technical processes, and decisions shaping data. “Datasheets for datasets” is a recent approach developed by researchers in machine learning that foregrounds transparency and uncovering bias through data documentation.
Emily Maemura, Helena Byrne
wiley   +1 more source

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION – CRIMINAL LEGAL ASPECT

Pravo, 2014
Environmental protection is the basic right of a man and citizen being guaranteed by the constitution in modern states. Today, it is not a problem of only one certain society, but the problem of the mankind in general.
Branko Vučković
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