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All opinions are not equal: Toward a consensual approach to the development of drug policy

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, Volume 57, Issue 4, Page 812-828, December 2022., 2022
Abstract Drug policy has been subjected to much scrutiny from different stakeholder groups who present sometimes very different opinions on solutions to address a problem. Reconciling such differences, that are underpinned by both anecdotal and empirical evidence, is a priority yet to be fully achieved.
Gabriel T. W. Wong, Matthew Manning
wiley   +1 more source

Multiple gravity laws for human mobility within cities [PDF]

open access: yesEPJ Data Sci. 12, 57 (2023), 2023
The gravity model of human mobility has successfully described the deterrence of travels with distance in urban mobility patterns. While a broad spectrum of deterrence was found across different cities, yet it is not empirically clear if movement patterns in a single city could also have a spectrum of distance exponents denoting a varying deterrence ...
arxiv   +1 more source

Resilience, and positive parenting in parents of children with syndromic autism and intellectual disability. Evidence from the impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on family's quality of life and parent–child relationships

open access: yesAutism Research, Volume 15, Issue 12, Page 2381-2398, December 2022., 2022
Abstract Family quality of life (FQoL) outcomes collected during the first year of COVID‐19 has been combined with 2018 data to estimate the outbreak's impact on parental outcomes on a sample of 230 families with syndromic autistic children and those with intellectual disabilities (IDs).
Corneliu Bolbocean   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Perceptions of Physical, Psychological, Social and Legal Deterrents to Joyriding [PDF]

open access: yesCrime Prevention and Community Safety, 2002
This study examines factors that encourage or discourage joyriding from three different but compatible perspectives: deterrence theory, situational prevention and neutralisation theory. Participants were 228 high school students from grades 10, 11 and 12 who responded to a questionnaire in which they ranked the perceived effectiveness of various ...
WORTLEY, RK, McDonagh, E, Homel, R
openaire   +3 more sources

Power Processes in Bargaining [PDF]

open access: yes, 1992
This is a theoretical article that integrates and extends a particular program of work on power in bargaining relationships. Power is conceptualized as a structurally based capability, and power use as tactical action falling within either conciliatory ...
Lawler, Edward J
core   +2 more sources

The relationship between antisocial stereotypes and public CCTV systems: exploring fear of crime in the modern surveillance society [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Original article can be found at: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713647155~db=all Copyright Informa / Taylor and FrancisSituational crime deterrence measures like CCTV are not always associated with reductions in fear of crime.
Ahmed, J., Williams, D.
core   +1 more source

An experimental test of the deterrence hypothesis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Crime has to be punished, but does punishment reduce crime? We conduct a neutrally framed laboratory experiment to test the deterrence hypothesis, namely that crime is weakly decreasing in deterrent incentives, i.e. severity and probability of punishment.
Hörisch, Hannah, Strassmair, Christina
core   +10 more sources

The Paradoxical Influence of Stress on the Intensity of Romantic Feelings Towards the Partner

open access: yesInterpersona: An International Journal on Personal Relationships, 2018
According to Brehm’s emotional intensity theory (EIT), the strength of feelings of romantic affect towards a romantic partner should vary as a cubic function of increasing levels of relationship stress (i.e., deterrence to feelings of romantic affect ...
Silvia Donato   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Evaluating deterrents of illegal behaviour in conservation: Carnivore killing in rural Taiwan [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Rules restricting resource use are ubiquitous to conservation. Recent increases in poaching of iconic species such as African elephant and rhino have triggered high-profile interest in enforcement.
Mai, Chin-Hsuan   +2 more
core   +1 more source

ACSEE: Antagonistic Crowd Simulation Model with Emotional Contagion and Evolutionary Game Theory [PDF]

open access: yesIEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (2019), 2019
Antagonistic crowd behaviors are often observed in cases of serious conflict. Antagonistic emotions, which is the typical psychological state of agents in different roles (i.e. cops, activists, and civilians) in crowd violent scenes, and the way they spread through contagion in a crowd are important causes of crowd antagonistic behaviors.
arxiv   +1 more source

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