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How Public Officials Perceive Algorithmic Discretion: A Study of Status Quo Bias in Policing

Public Administration Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Algorithms are disrupting established decision‐making practices in public administration. A key area of interest lies in algorithmic discretion or how public officials use algorithms to exercise discretion. The article develops a framework to explain algorithmic discretion by drawing on status quo bias theory and bureaucratic discretion.
Muhammad Afzal, Panos Panagiotopoulos
wiley   +1 more source

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, Brian Clarke, Francis-Smythe, Jan, Geoff Norton   +3 more
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A bibliography of guns and shooting, being a list of ancient and modern English and foreign books relating to firearms and their use, and to the composition and manufacture of explosives; with an introductory chapter on technical books a compiled and revised to date by Wirt Gerrare.

, 1895
Wirt Gerrare
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Firearms and Homicide: the Influence of the Weapon Substitution Hypothesis on the American Gun Control Debate [PDF]

, 2000
Nestar Russell
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State Policies Regulating Firearms and Changes in Firearm Mortality

JAMA Network Open
ImportanceDespite high social and public health costs of firearm violence in the United States, the effects of many policies designed to reduce firearm mortality remain uncertain.ObjectiveTo estimate the individual and joint effect sizes of state firearm policies on firearm-related mortality.Design, Setting, and ParticipantsIn this comparative ...
Schell, Terry L., Smart, Rosanna, Cefalu, Matthew, Griffin, Beth Ann, Morral, Andrew R.   +4 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
wiley   +1 more source

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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Constitutional Limitations on Firearms Regulation

, 1969

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Family Physicians and Firearm Safety Counseling [PDF]

, 2000
Timothy T. Wheeler
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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
wiley   +1 more source