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Rural Health at a Crossroads: How Policymakers Have Failed Rural America and What Can Be Done for a Healthier Tomorrow

The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.
Policy Points Rural communities have more limited access to medical care and worse health outcomes. Existing federal and state policies largely fall short in addressing rural access disparities. Rural health woes require increased government funding for providers and the embrace of alternative health delivery mechanisms, as well as expanded public ...
MICHAEL E. SHEPHERD
wiley   +1 more source

Opening the Door Wider to Community Support of People With Serious Mental Illnesses: What States Can Learn From the IDD Experience

The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.
Policy Points The federal government should provide states with authorities under Medicaid that allow greater use of home and community‐based services for people with serious and persistent mental illness. This requires deemphasizing authorities that require budget neutrality in a post‐institutionalization world (Section 1115 waivers) and relying on ...
HAROLD POLLACK, RICHARD FRANK, SHERRY GLIED   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Interpol review of the analysis and detection of explosives and explosives residues

Forensic Science International: Synergy, 2023
Douglas J. Klapec, Greg Czarnopys, Julie Pannuto   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Context of protection against domestic violence and fight against firearms: Legislative framework and resolution 1325 in Serbia [PDF]

Zbornik Radova Pravnog Fakulteta u Nišu, 2019
Widespread possession of firearms, both legal and illegal, is one of the greatest threats to human security in the modern age. This problem can be linked to various forms of structural and cultural violence, especially for vulnerable and marginalized ...
Spasić Danijela, Radovanović Ivana
doaj  

A Family Affair: War, Agency and Female Epistolary Networks in Renaissance Italy

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article draws on the largely unexplored epistolary archive of dozens of women who were born or married into military families in northern Italy around the time of the first phase of the Italian Wars (1494–1530). Building on recent work on early modern agency, patriarchy, networks and emotional communities, the article reconstructs and ...
Stephen Bowd
wiley   +1 more source

A Firearms in Military Activities in the Borderland of Bohemia, Silesia and Lesser Poland in the Times of Matthias Corvinuses

Fasciculi Archaeologiae Historicae, 2017
Matthias Corvinus, the Hungarian ruler who was also called the „Warrior King”, was carrying out very intensive policy in Central Europe. Having come to the throne of Hungary in 1458, he soon also seized Moravia, Silesia and Vienna.
Piotr Strzyż
doaj   +1 more source

The Actus Reus of Attempts

The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
This paper gives an account of the actus reus for a criminal attempt. Conduct that is more than merely preparatory, we argue, intrudes on the same protected domain as the complete offence. This takes a normative approach to actus reus, focusing on the reasons that the defendant acted against.
Angelo Ryu, Trenton Sewell
wiley   +1 more source

The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
wiley   +1 more source

Small Arms and Small Countries: Firearms and the International Security Agenda

Íconos, 2016
This article examines the emergence of the small arms trade on the international political agenda as a growing security threat. Employing the theoretical framework proposed by the Copenhagen School, this article argues that the issue of small arms gained
Carla Álvarez Velasco
doaj   +1 more source

Opportunities and Alliances: The Relational Dynamics of Criminal Collusion in Latin America

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Mexico and judicial wiretap analysis in Argentina, this paper shows that collusion between state actors and violent non‐state actors operates through fluid and competitive relational networks rather than stable hierarchies or fixed institutional arrangements.
Eldad J. Levy, Javier Auyero
wiley   +1 more source