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Examining the Impact of Domestic and Family Violence on Young Australians’ School‐Level Education

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australian policy and practice increasingly acknowledges the need to respond to children as victim‐survivors of domestic and family violence (DFV) in their own right. As part of this, and in recognition that schools often have the most consistent contact with young people experiencing DFV, there is mounting recognition of the role education ...
Rebecca Stewart   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Identification of Cotton Fibers Dyed with Reactive Dyes for Forensic Purposes

open access: yesMolecules, 2020
Some of the most common microtraces that are currently collected at crime scenes are fragments of single fibers. The perpetrator leaves them at a crime scene or takes them away, for example, on their clothing or body.
Daria Śmigiel-Kamińska   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Associations of perceived neighbourhood safety from traffic and crime with overweight/obesity among South African adults of low-socioeconomic status. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2018
BACKGROUND:The relationship between perceived neighbourhood safety from traffic and crime with overweight/obesity can provide intervention modalities for obesity, yet no relevant study has been conducted in sub-Saharan African contexts.
Pasmore Malambo   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Understanding Youth Assaults of Police Officers in Australia: A Power Threat Meaning Framework Analysis

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores youth violence towards police officers in Australia through the Power Threat Meaning Framework (PTMF) to better understand the underlying factors contributing to such violence; focusing on power dynamics, childhood adversity, and trauma.
Dimitra Lattas   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Capacity of the Malaysian Legal System to Commit Digital Crimes [PDF]

open access: yesآموزه‌های حقوق کیفری کشورهای اسلامی
Developments in information and communication technology have had a significant impact on individuals and society as a whole. Digitalization has changed the way of action and interaction in social contexts.
Peyman Namamian
doaj   +1 more source

Crimes Against Agriculture: NAFTA as State Crime in Mexico

open access: yesState Crime, 2022
With the implementation of NAFTA in 1994, several consequences have followed. The current study is a case study of the negative harms primarily felt by Mexican farmers.
Daniel Patten
doaj   +1 more source

Mining large-scale human mobility data for long-term crime prediction

open access: yes, 2018
Traditional crime prediction models based on census data are limited, as they fail to capture the complexity and dynamics of human activity. With the rise of ubiquitous computing, there is the opportunity to improve such models with data that make for ...
Kadar, Cristina, Pletikosa, Irena
core   +2 more sources

The Legislation for Providing Animal Access in Australian Residential Aged Care: It's Not a Zoo

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Providing meaningful animal contact to residential aged care facility (RACF) residents is problematic due to a lack of animal policies and National Guidelines. This paper examines how Australian Legislation could influence access to animal contact in RACFs and aims to answer the question, ‘Could current Legislation facilitate the development ...
Wendy Newton   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Food Fraud Prevention: Policy, Strategy, and Decision-Making – Implementation Steps for a Government Agency or Industry

open access: yesCHIMIA, 2016
This paper addresses the role of governments, industry, academics, and non-governmental organizations in Food Fraud prevention. Before providing strategic concepts for governments and authorities, definitions of Food Fraud are reviewed and ...
John Spink   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The New Jim Crow [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The mass incarceration of poor people of color represents a new American caste system that is the moral equivalent of Jim Crow. Today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against criminals in nearly all the ways it was once legal to discriminate against
Michelle Alexander
core   +1 more source

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