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1200 paths and counting: A script analysis of firearms trafficking in the Province of Quebec, Canada
Purpose Based on the crime script approach, the main objective of this study was to identify steps involved in firearms trafficking in the Province of Quebec, Canada. Our analysis focused on actions performed by actors, facilitating conditions, obstacles
Blais, E, Décary-Hétu, D, Leclerc, B
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Legal and Criminological Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Aims This study examined behavioural heterogeneity across three victim–offender relationship categories in a non‐Western context to determine whether specific patterns can accurately predict intimate/family, acquaintance/friend and stranger homicides.
Ruihan Chen
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Fasciculi Archaeologiae Historicae, 2015 This paper is in attempt at correlating chronologically well-defined assemblages of projectiles and historical events which accompanied their deposition.
Piotr Strzyż
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Introduction:New Perspectives on Firearms in the Age of Empire
, 2013 This essay introduces the volume by making a case for approaches that foreground the symbolical value of material things, in general, and firearms, in ...
Jones, Karen R. +5 more
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Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Medical anthropologists have long shown how hospitals function as spaces of both care and control, yet the entanglement of policing and trauma care remains understudied. This paper offers an ethnographic account of how trauma surgeons in a Los Angeles County hospital navigate the embedded presence of police within their clinical work.
Emily Virginia Jones
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Medical and Veterinary Entomology, EarlyView.Nine ant taxa were identified in a Brazilian hospital, with Tapinoma melanocephalum and Dorymyrmex brunneus being the most abundant. Eighty‐five percent of collected ants yielded detectable bacterial growth, including clinically relevant genera such as Acinetobacter, Pseudomonas, Escherichia coli and Pluralibacter.
Luana Biggi Souza +10 more
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Football Matches and Policing: Evidence From London
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While the relationship between football matches and crime has been well documented, little is known about whether such events also escalate violent interactions between police officers and civilians. This study addresses that gap by analysing use of force data from the Metropolitan Police Service in London to assess the impact of football ...
Nils Braakmann +3 more
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The Effects of Gun Prevalence on Burglary: Deterrence vs Inducement [PDF]
The proposition that widespread gun ownership serves as a deterrent to residential burglary is widely touted by advocates, but the evidence is weak, consisting of anecdotes, interviews with burglars, casual comparisons with other countries, and the like.
Philip J. Cook, Jens Ludwig
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Public Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How do policy entrepreneurs change policy when politicians are not directly involved in the process? While public policy scholars have examined the conditions under which politicians refrain from direct engagement in policy design, they have paid less attention to the strategies policy entrepreneurs employ in the absence of political actors ...
Ben Kizel, Nissim Cohen
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