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European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How do governments' discursive credit‐claiming and blame‐deflection strategies shape perceived policy legitimacy in times of crisis? Despite the importance of legitimacy in conflictual times, systematic analyses of officeholders' credit‐claiming and blame‐deflection strategies and their effect on perceived legitimacy are still rare.
Céline Honegger
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Adultery as a Defence: The Construction of a Legally Permissible Violence, England 1810
Histories, 2023 The Mawgridge’s case in 1707 set the precedent where adultery was recognised as a justified trigger for the husband’s killing of his wife’s lover; this crystallised a partial defence for provocation.
Susanna Menis
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Criminalizing Normal Adolescent Behavior in Communities of Color: The Role of Prosecutors in Juvenile Justice Reform [PDF]
, 2012 There is little dispute that racial disparities pervade the contemporary American juvenile justice system. The persistent overrepresentation of youth of color in the system suggests that scientifically supported notions of diminished culpability of youth
Henning, Kristin N.
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Culpability, blame, and stigma after pregnancy loss in Qatar
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2019 BackgroundFollowing a miscarriage many women report feeling guilty and culpable for what has happened particularly when aspects of societal blame and stigma are involved.
Nadia Omar +5 more
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Quantifying driving ensemble influence on operational convection‐permitting ensemble spread
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, EarlyView.By comparing statistics of precipitation patterns between a convection‐permitting ensemble and the global ensemble used to drive it, we investigate the conditions under which the convection‐permitting ensemble diverges from the evolution of the driving ensemble.
Adam Gainford +4 more
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Four functions of mens rea [PDF]
, 2011 Everyone agrees that mens rea is relevant to fault. The maxim actus non fit reus nisi mens sit rea has been around for centuries.1 According to foundational principles of the criminal law, it is normally not enough to support a conviction that D ...
Chan, Winnie M. F., Simester, A. P.
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Mock Juror Perceptions of Credibility and Culpability in an Autistic Defendant
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2018 One-hundred-and-sixty jury-eligible participants read a vignette describing a male who was brought to the attention of police for suspicious and aggressive behaviours and displayed atypical behaviours in court.
K. Maras, Imogen Marshall, Chloe Sands
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Strategic Management Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research Summary This research investigates how firms attempt to preempt activism before it mobilizes into an active threat. Employing a difference‐in‐differences design, we examine the quasi‐exogenous enactments of laws that prevent Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (anti‐SLAPP laws) in the United States.
Zhiyan Wu, Garry Bruton, Ryan Krause
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Blame and Culpability in Children's Narratives of Child Sexual Abuse
Child Abuse Review, 2019 Though child sexual abuse (CSA) is a global problem, victims are treated differently across the world. In the UK, there is a dominant assumption that victims are passive, which risks further marginalising those who do not identify themselves in line with
Katie Ellis
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Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.In this article, I analyze my interviews with Mark (pseudonym), a social scientist who committed major academic fraud in over 50 top‐tier journal articles in the first decade of this century. I explain how stigma played a central role in how Mark and I shaped our interaction. I focus on how Mark, a former Professor and Dean with a distinguished career,
Thaddeus Müller
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