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‘Zionism as the Legacy of Cyrus’: (Online) Proxy Nationalism of Diasporic Iranians
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper focuses on examining the online activities of a group of diasporic Iranians who exhibit Israeli proxy nationalism online by openly expressing support for Israel and Zionism. By analysing posts, reposts and comments made on X after the Hamas‐led attack on Israel on 7 October 2023 using the hashtag #IraniansStandWithIsrael, the paper ...
Ladan Rahbari
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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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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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Association of State Firearm Laws With Firearm Ownership and Mortality
AJPM FocusFirearm injury is a leading cause of death among Americans. Because the right to bear arms is protected by the Second Amendment, policymakers must consider the impact of legislation on both firearm ownership and firearm harms. The current state of knowledge in firearm research majorly examines the impact of firearm legislation on firearm injuries and ...
Roni Barak Ventura +3 more
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Devil and angel shifts in collective action: A call for integration and improvements
Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Devil and Angel Shifts are commonly applied concepts in policy research. Using the two concepts in related but different theoretical frameworks – the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) and the Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) – provokes potential challenges of cross‐theoretical dialogue, the establishment of methodological best practices, and ...
Johanna Hornung +2 more
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What Is Wrong with Imposing Risk of Harm?
Ratio, EarlyView.ABSTRACT When and why is it wrong to impose a pure risk of harm on others? A pure risk of harm is a risk that fails to materialise into the harm that is threatened. It initially seems puzzling on what grounds a pure risk of harm can be wrong. There have been multiple attempts to explain the wrongness of imposing risk either by reference to the badness ...
Thomas Rowe
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Commonsense Solutions: State Laws to Address Gun Violence Against Women [PDF]
, 2014 The vast majority of American gun owners are responsible and abide by the law. However, guns do not belong in the hands of domestic abusers and other people known to violently target women or others in relationships. When an abuser has access to firearms,
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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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Rights: Facts, Evidence, or Beliefs?
Ratio, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper considers whether rights hold due to the facts, the best available evidence to people, or people's actual beliefs. While there has been much discussion of this question in the context of what we ought to do, there is less discussion from a rights standpoint.
Joseph Bowen
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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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