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'Guns don't colonise people ...': the role and use of firearms in pre-colonial and colonial Africa
Kronos, 2010 This review essay examines a number of recent works that contribute to the history of firearms in colonial and pre-colonial Africa; two based upon new and original research (Story and Guy) and the others on reproductions of earlier seminal contributions ...
Rory Pilossof
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Drive-By America: Second Edition [PDF]
, 2010 Drive-by shootings are commonly defined as an incident in which the shooterfires a firearm from a motor vehicle at another person, vehicle, building, or another stationary object.This study is a follow-up to the July 2007 Violence Policy Center (VPC ...
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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
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"The only friend I had was my gun": A mixed-methods study of gun culture in school shootings.
PLoS ONEFirearms are the leading cause of death for minors in the United States and US gun culture is often discussed as a reason behind the prevalence of school shootings.
Anne Nassauer
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Evaluation and Examination of a Possible Shoe-polish Trace in a Hold-up Case
Journal of Forensic Science and Medicine, 2016 In this article, we show how the Bayesian framework can be applied to a hold-up case involving a possible shoe-polish trace according to one of the parties. This article highlights the importance of interpreting data from the beginning of the examination
Line Gueissaz +3 more
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Case Study: The Boston Gun Project and Operation Ceasefire [PDF]
, 2005 The Boston Gun Project was a problem-oriented policing initiative expressly aimed at reducing homicide victimization among youths in Boston in the mid-1990s (Kennedy et al., 1996; Kennedy et al., 2001).
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Journal of Forensic Sciences, EarlyView.Abstract The present pilot study aimed to assess the transfer of metal residues on fingertips after contact with different items (primary transfer) as well as the transfer of metal residues by human fingertips from metal objects to different surfaces (secondary transfer).
Barbara Bertoglio +5 more
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Interpol review of fire debris analysis and fire investigation 2019–2022
Forensic Science International: Synergy, 2023 Michelle Evans
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Noise and Health, 2016 Aim: To investigate in this cross-sectional study among Swedish hunters if tobacco use modifies the previously observed association, expressed as prevalence ratio (PR), between unprotected exposure to impulse noise from hunting rifle caliber (HRC ...
Louise Honeth +5 more
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Assault Weapons Revisited: Policy Options for Regulating Rifles, Shotguns, and Other Firearms 20 Years After the Passage of the Assault Weapons Ban [PDF]
, 2014 20 years after President Bill Clinton signed the federal assault weapons ban into law in September 1994 and a decade after Congress allowed that law to lapse -- the question of whether and how to regulate particularly lethal firearms is no longer the ...
Arkadi Gerney, Chelsea Parsons
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