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REDUCING FIREARMS VIOLENCE THROUGH DIRECTED POLICE PATROL* [PDF]

open access: green, 2001
Edmund F. McGarrell   +3 more
openalex   +1 more source

Rural population survey of behavioral and demographic risk factors for loaded firearms [PDF]

open access: bronze, 2001
David L. Nordstrom   +4 more
openalex   +1 more source

How does a focusing event shape public opinion? Natural experimental evidence from the Orlando mass shooting

open access: yesPolicy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Policy process theories posit that focusing events can trigger significant shifts in public attention and policy preferences, thereby reshaping public agenda setting. Prior studies, however, have not clearly defined the scope of public opinion changes induced by these focusing events, leading to inconsistent empirical findings. This study aims
Youlang Zhang, Xinsheng Liu
wiley   +1 more source

At their fingertips: What is the impact of online reporting of domestic violence?

open access: yesPublic Administration Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Global reports indicate that 307 million women have suffered physical or sexual intimate partner violence during the last 12 months. Yet, chronic underreporting of domestic violence (DV) is still a reality in the United States and worldwide. The process of going to a police station and reporting DV is extremely burdensome, leading to numerous ...
Marylis C. Fantoni
wiley   +1 more source

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

open access: yesPublic 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

What Is Wrong with Imposing Risk of Harm?

open access: yesRatio, 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

Rights: Facts, Evidence, or Beliefs?

open access: yesRatio, 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

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