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Developing Reflective Practice in Police Firearms Instruction. [PDF]
This paper reports collaboration between University College Worcester and the Firearms School of West Mercia Constabulary to design, develop, implement and evaluate a national course for authorised firearms officers to become firearms instructors.
Bill Bradley +3 more
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How to Diagnose Prisons' Failures: Three Perspectives on Officers' Responsibilities
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Prison officers play a vital role in shaping prison conditions. Assessing their responsibility for, and potential role in reforming, the prison's failures is an urgent and important task in corrective justice efforts. This article takes up this task, with a focus on the US prison context, by applying and critically examining two general ...
Candice Delmas
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Examining the role of firearm involvement in repeat intimate partner violence assaults
Injury EpidemiologyBackground Intimate partner violence (IPV) remains a pervasive and complex issue with significant social and public health implications. The nexus of firearms and intimate partner violence (IPV) is an especially dangerous one.
Zainab Hans +2 more
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Journal of Fish Biology, EarlyView.Abstract This study aimed to identify geographical distribution patterns of the giant short‐tailed river stingray Potamotrygon brachyura and the motoro stingray Potamotrygon motoro in the Uruguay River basin. Data on presence/absence of stingrays were based on fishers' knowledge accessed by interviews through expeditions in Brazil, Argentina and ...
Danilo Araujo Soares Pereira +2 more
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Pennsylvania Under the Gun: 5 Measures of Gun Violence in the Keystone State [PDF]
, 2016 This issue brief explores five aspects of gun violence in Pennsylvania that are especially alarming, unusual, or above the national average:1. Pennsylvania's rate of gun homicides is among the highest in the nation, particularly in communities of color.2.
Chelsea Parsons, Eugenio Weigend Vargas
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Suicide and Self‐Harm in Intellectual Disability: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis
Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Individuals with intellectual disabilities (ID) are disproportionately exposed to several risk factors for suicidality. However, no meta‐analysis has yet quantified the relative risk of suicide and self‐harm, including suicide attempts, within this population. The aim of this project was to bring together and synthesise the research
Sara Lindstedt +8 more
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SELF-HARM AS A SIGN OF STAGING CRIMINAL EVENTS [PDF]
Krymskij Naučnyj Vestnik, 2015 The article considers the problems of conducting investigative activities related to the dramatization of a criminal event, characterized by the application of self-harm to induce the employee of a consequence of misconceptions about the criminal event ...
Vitaly Fadeev, Sergey Klevtsov
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Commonsense Solutions: How State Laws Can Reduce Gun Deaths Associated with Mental Illness [PDF]
, 2014 Guns in the hands of the dangerously mentally ill have taken the lives of too many people. Mass shootings, like the shooting in a parking lot in Tucson, Arizona in January 2011, and the shooting in a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado in July 2012, have ...
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Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates the effectiveness of private actors in contributing to crime prevention. We leverage well‐publicised increases in security measures, including additional security guards and tagging of goods, by Tesco, a large UK supermarket chain.
Nils Braakmann, Wednesday Croft
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AJPM FocusIntroduction: Firearm injuries in the U.S. are rising, with emerging adults (aged 18–24 years) experiencing disproportionately high rates of fatal and nonfatal incidents.
Morayo O. Akande, MPH +4 more
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