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“Will you be there for me?” Social support from family and friends during cold case sexual assault prosecutions

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract If sexual assault survivors report the assault to the criminal legal system, they often need informal support from family and friends throughout the long and frequently retraumatizing process of investigation and prosecution. This study is part of a long‐term community‐based participatory action research project in a predominately Black ...
Rebecca Campbell   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Continued Majority Support for Death Penalty [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Presents survey findings about public support for and opposition to the death penalty for those convicted of murder and their reasons for supporting or opposing it by race, age, education, political affiliation, and religion and compared with the ...

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Understanding Youth Assaults of Police Officers in Australia: A Power Threat Meaning Framework Analysis

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores youth violence towards police officers in Australia through the Power Threat Meaning Framework (PTMF) to better understand the underlying factors contributing to such violence; focusing on power dynamics, childhood adversity, and trauma.
Dimitra Lattas   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Analysis of the Death Penalty in Indonesia Criminal Law

open access: yesSriwijaya Law Review, 2017
This research uses normative juridical approach to study on the analysis of the death penalty executions and the legal policy of death executions in Indonesia.
Eddy Rifai
doaj   +1 more source

Superannuation Reimagined: Moving Beyond the Origins to an Indigenous Focus

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Retirement income systems, such as superannuation, are meant to be non‐discriminatory and consider disadvantage faced by members of society. There are significant differences between the life expectancies of Indigenous and non‐Indigenous peoples. The gap in life expectancies is not considered when determining when Indigenous peoples can retire.
Levon Ellen Blue   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Death Penalty Attitudes of Social Work Students: Current and Future Opportunities

open access: yesJournal of Forensic Social Work, 2016
Although much is known about the death penalty attitudes of U.S. adults, the attitudes of social workers are less clear. The current study assesses the death penalty attitudes of 406 social work students at a southern university. Support was measured in
Stephanie Kennedy, Stephen Tripodi
doaj   +1 more source

Death Beyond a Reasonable Doubt [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
In the forty-four years since the Court employed the Eighth Amendment to temporarily suspend the death penalty in the United States in Furman v. Georgia in 1972, the Court has spilled an enormous amount of ink attempting to instruct the states on how to ...
Hoeffel, Janet C.
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‘People Need to Understand That They Are Stealing From Their Neighbours’: A Critical Media Analysis of the Representations and Resistance Throughout the Robodebt Scheme

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Robodebt scheme issued thousand‐dollar debts to an estimated half a million people who had received social security. The debts were largely inaccurate and illegal, with the aim of improving the federal government's budget. The 2023 Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme found that the stigmatising political and public language about ...
Ella Kruger, Phillipa Evans
wiley   +1 more source

Under Penalty of Death:

open access: yesRevista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença
The text analyzes the figural aspects of The Thin Blue Line (Morris, 1988) and A Short Film About Killing (Kieślowski, 1988) as reveries of justice driven by the abolitionist imagination of the death penalty.
Dinaldo Filho
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ABOLITION OF THE DEATH PENALTY IN BRAZIL. OLD AND NEW PERSPECTIVES. TRIBUTE TO 150 YEARS OF THE ABOLITION OF THE DEATH PENALTY IN PORTUGAL

open access: yesRevista Eletrônica do Curso de Direito da UFSM, 2018
This text corresponds, with minor changes, to the communication made at the Colloquium Commemorating the One Hundred and Fifty Years of Abolition of Death Penalty in Portugal, held in October 2017 at the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra.
Fabio Roberto D'Avila
doaj   +1 more source

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