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Social Media Is a Threat for Democracy! A Political Perspective for Analysing and Diminishing Harm
Abstract Social media platforms, once hailed as potential champions of dialogue, have evolved into commodified spaces in which their business models incentivize hate speech, misinformation, polarization, and the political fragmentation of society, benefiting corporate and political elites while eroding democracy.
Itziar Castelló +3 more
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"It Would've Been So Beautiful…If the Hospital Didn't Have to Tell the Police": The Incompatibility of Mandatory Reporting Policies and Adolescent Survivors' Post-Assault Needs. [PDF]
Shaw J +4 more
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ABSTRACT Sociolinguists emphasize the context‐dependence of social meanings activated by linguistic variation. I examine this dynamic using the Goffmanian concept of frames, focusing on the intersection of gender and sexuality. More specifically, I explore pitch variation as an index of femininity in the domestic abuse victimization frame.
Matthew Hunt
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Do Intoxicated Offenders Deserve Harsher Sentences? Questioning Veritas in Vino
ABSTRACT Criminal courts increasingly treat intoxication as an aggravating rather than a mitigating factor in sentencing. This shift, seen in Australian law and other jurisdictions, raises the prospect of unjust outcomes. We examine this trend through the lens of desert‐based justifications for punishment, setting aside questions of deterrence and ...
Mary Jean Walker, Daniel B. Cohen
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The impact of institutional authority on forensic evidence evaluation by criminal justice professionals. [PDF]
de Roo RHD, Stevens L, de Poot CJ.
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Abstract Purpose In some contexts, US‐based White jurors appear to exhibit a heightened focus on legally relevant information when the defendant is Black as compared to White. The current study tested this ‘watchdog’ effect in the Canadian context by examining mock jurors' decisions using a trial involving a recanted confession with an Indigenous or a ...
Logan Ewanation, Evelyn M. Maeder
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Fast DNA reports for investigative leads in casework practice: An automated workflow for mixture analysis using database searching based on probabilistic genotyping. [PDF]
Benschop CCG +7 more
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ABSTRACT Following the Russian Federation's full‐scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, thousands of Ukrainian children have been forcibly taken from occupied territories and transferred to Russia. On 17 March 2023, the International Criminal Court officially recognized these actions as a war crime.
Ayşegül Aydıngün +2 more
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A triple pandemic: COVID-19, violence against children, and the crisis in family courts. [PDF]
Lee BX, Lee G.
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ABSTRACT How are online discourses in subissues within counternationalist movements constructed? This study better understands what comprises digital counternationalist dissent against right‐wing nationalism, finding that right‐wing nationalism's success can also be explained through limitations in counternationalist discourse.
Mohammad Amaan Siddiqui
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