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Firearm Violence in Wilmington
Delaware Journal of Public Health, 2018 Firearm related assault injuries disproportionately affect young men of color related to a variety of social & ecological vulnerabilities. Delaware, and particularly the city of Wilmington, has experienced a disproportionately high number of these injuries, and this article follows the public health approach in defining the scope of the problem ...
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Leviathans and Liberation: Did Whaling Contribute to the Decline of Slavery?
International Social Science Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We test the hypothesis slavery started declining in the United States not due to fossil fuel‐driven industrialization but the exploitation of the bioenergy reserves of the world's largest animals. We predict the population in slavery in US states from 1790 to 1840 as a function of the recorded whaling harvest.
Topher L. McDougal +1 more
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The Epidemiologic Basis For The Prevention Of Firearm Injuries [PDF]
, 1991 A. Kellermann
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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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Commonsense Solutions: State Gun Laws to Protect Kids from Unintended Shootings [PDF]
, 2015 This report provides a series of proposals that state legislators should enact in their states to help protect children from improperly stored firearms.
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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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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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Firearms Costs, Firearms Benefits and the Limits of Knowledge
The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (1973-), 1995 America's intensifying dismay about violent crime has become so pervasive that one may well affirm that there is something of a "national crime crisis." Yet there is something of a puzzle as well. Overall crime rates in the United States have been falling for nearly twenty years.
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Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Scholars have long attended to both the persistence and change of institutional logic–identity constellations, but we know less about why and how organizational members might cling to a logic despite its evident maladaptive character and the resulting emotional upheaval.
Lindie Botha, Ralph Hamann
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Psychological Readiness of Pre-Trial Detention Center Officers to Use Lethal Force with Firearms
Психология и правоThe article addresses the problem of psychological readiness of correctional security officers to use lethal force with firearms. The peculiarities of their operational and service activities related to the potential use of firearms are ...
E.V. Ovcharova +3 more
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