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Understanding community policing [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Purpose The purpose of the paper is to explore, in broad terms, how policing needs to be developed in communities today. Approach The approach is normative and analytical, considering the meaning of policing in general, and community policing in ...
Somerville, Peter
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‘You fine an industry, then return the funding to them’: State‐facilitated corporate crime and Colorado's Suncor Oil Refinery

open access: yesSociological forum (Randolph, N.J.)
In Commerce City, Colorado, residents contend with multiple environmental hazards and live in the most polluted zip code in the US. Perhaps no source of environmental harm is more visible than the imposing, aging Suncor Oil Refinery.
Stephanie A. Malin   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Relational and feminist pedagogic approaches for developing engagement and inclusion of girls at risk of exclusion in England

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper highlights the inclusive potential of relational and feminist pedagogic strategies in education, focusing on girls at risk of exclusion. Girls in England are less likely than boys to be suspended or permanently excluded from school, but numbers are increasing.
Juliette Wilson‐Thomas   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Color/Identity/Justice: Chicano Trials [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
This Book Review seeks to rectify in small measure the omission of color from American documents of black/white legal and political struggle. Enlarging the spectrum of struggle beyond the black/white paradigm not only works to correct the historical ...
Alfieri, Anthony V.
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Injuries in deep time: interpreting competitive behaviours in extinct reptiles via palaeopathology

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT For over a century, palaeopathology has been used as a tool for understanding evolution, disease in past communities and populations, and to interpret behaviour of extinct taxa. Physical traumas in particular have frequently been the justification for interpretations about aggressive and even competitive behaviours in extinct taxa.
Maximilian Scott   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Moral Minefield of Ethical Oil Palm and Sustainable Development

open access: yesFrontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2019
The environmental impacts of the palm oil industry are widely recognised. Unsurprisingly, many people, including many conservation pundits, consider oil palm a major evil.
Erik Meijaard   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Civil Disobedience and the Necessity Defense [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
[Excerpt] “This article will first examine the nature of civil disobedience, and distinguish between direct and indirect civil disobedience. Part II highlights some historical examples of civil disobedience.
Cohan, John Alan
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All-Wales licensed premises intervention (AWLPI): a randomised controlled trial to reduce alcohol-related violence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Background: Alcohol-related violence in and in the vicinity of licensed premises continues to place a considerable burden on the United Kingdom’s (UK) health services.
Alam, Mohammed   +12 more
core   +4 more sources

Corruption Control and Corporate Hazardous Waste Emissions: Cross‐Country Evidence and the Moderating Role of Agenda 2030

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The aim of this study is to examine the impact of corruption control, as a public institutional mechanism, on hazardous waste emissions of private sector entities. We also examine the extent to which Agenda 2030 moderates the relationship. We analyse data from the top 500 global companies.
Babajide Oyewo   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

High Time for Conservation: Adding the Environment to the Debate on Marijuana Liberalization [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The liberalization of marijuana policies, including the legalization of medical and recreational marijuana, is sweeping the United States and other countries.
Anne G. Short Gianotti   +7 more
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