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The 'Masai' and miraa: public authority, vigilance and criminality in a Ugandan border town [PDF]
, 2009 Recent studies on vigilante groups show how they often begin as popular schemes for imposing order, before degenerating into violent militias which contribute in turn to social and political disorder.
Titeca, Kristof
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Applying the Rules of Evidence to Expert Testimony About Risk
Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Expert opinion about dangerousness or risk is common at sentencing, criminal commitment proceedings and some types of pretrial detention hearings. This article argues that such evidence must be (1) “material” (logically relevant, empirically generalizable, and epistemologically germane), (2) “probative” (a measure of accuracy, which is ...
Christopher Slobogin
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Race and Policing: An Agenda for Action [PDF]
, 2015 This paper is organized into two parts -- Strategic Voice and Tactical Agency. Strategic Voice argues that problems of race in policing cannot be resolved by the police alone. Other people must help by understanding and ameliorating the social conditions
David H. Bayley +2 more
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Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Depression, anxiety and criminal behaviour are often correlated, but the direction and nature of these associations remain contested. Aims To investigate the temporal relationships between depression and/or anxiety and criminal behaviour at age 32 and depression and/or anxiety and criminal behaviour at age 48.
Kim Reising, Maria M. Ttofi
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CRIMINAL LIABILITY FOR DRUG USE AND DRUG INTOXICATION
Constitutional StateThe article is dedicated to the study of criminally punishable actions related to narcotics and psychotropic substances (manufacturing, acquisition, possession, transportation, dispatch, etc.), which are committed without the intent to sell and defined in Part 1 of Article 309 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine as forms of the objective side.
B. M. Orlovskiy, I. A. Osadcha
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Journal of Forensic Science and Medicine, 2017 The association between substance use and criminality can be deduced from the acknowledgment of the increase of what are commonly called drug-defined offences, and those offences committed while under the influence of drug and/or alcohol. The aim of this
Aishatu Yusha'u Armiya'u +5 more
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Making Immigrants into Criminals: Legal Processes of Criminalization in the Post-IIRIRA Era [PDF]
, 2017 During a post-election TV interview that aired mid-November 2016, then President-Elect Donald Trump claimed that there are millions of so-called “criminal aliens” living in the United States: “What we are going to do is get the people that are criminal ...
Abrego, Leisy J +4 more
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Drug Testing and Analysis, EarlyView.UHPLC‐timsTOF‐MS with in silico prediction and automated annotation enabled rapid identification of quetiapine metabolites from pHLMs, facilitating their inclusion in targeted LC‐QTOF‐MS urine screening and improving biomarker detection for toxicological applications.
Annette Zschiesche +5 more
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Comprehensive Psychiatry, 2019 Background: Despite the rise in heroin use in sub Saharan-Africa opioid agonist maintenance treatment (OAMT) is still not state-funded in South Africa and many other African countries.
Nirvana Morgan +2 more
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Snapshots: Holistice Images of Female Offenders in the Criminal Justice System [PDF]
, 2003 This Essay attempts to pull together the various threads of thought regarding the relationships between gender, race, and class within the justice system, and suggests possible patterns that could be used to create holistic images of female offenders ...
Ward, Jennifer
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