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Scaling properties of firearm homicides in Brazilian cities [PDF]
arXiv, 2019 The recent quantitative approaches for studing several aspects of urban life and infrastructure have shown that scale properties allow to understand many features of urban infrastructure and of human activity in cities. In this work, an analysis based on the complexity of cities network is performed for data on Brazilian cities firearms homicides.
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Private security companies and the state monopoly on violence: A case of norm change? [PDF]
, 2009 The proliferation of private security companies has received increasing public and academic attention in recent years. From the involvement of private security firms in Sierra Leone and Angola to the capture and killing of Blackwater security contractors
Krahmann, E
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Journal of Industrial Ecology, EarlyView.Abstract This study examines the intersection of corporate social responsibility (CSR) precedence, circular economy (CE) practices, and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through the theoretical frameworks of the organizational culture and dynamic capabilities theory.
Ran Zhang, Qian (Jan) Li
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Calculating effective gun policies [PDF]
arXiv, 2013 Following recent shootings in the USA, a debate has erupted, one side favoring stricter gun control, the other promoting protection through more weapons. We provide a scientific foundation to inform this debate, based on mathematical, epidemiological models that quantify the dependence of firearm-related death rates of people on gun policies. We assume
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Text, History, and Tradition: What the Seventh Amendment Can Teach Us About the Second [PDF]
, 2013 In District of Columbia v. Heller and McDonald v. City of Chicago, the Supreme Court made seemingly irreconcilable demands on lower courts: evaluate Second Amendment claims through history, avoid balancing, and retain as much regulation as possible.
Miller, Darrell A. H.
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Interest Groups and Intra‐Party Conflict on Scored Votes
Legislative Studies Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While inter‐party conflicts and polarization are central for understanding policymaking, salient intra‐party conflicts remain. We explore one lens into these conflicts—interest groups scoring votes at odds with party leaders. We examine how often and under what conditions party‐aligned interest groups oppose the positions of party leadership ...
Laurel Harbridge‐Yong, Warren Snead
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Environmental Issues Committee Report Concerning Steel No. F Shot [PDF]
, 1988 Mississippi Flyway Technical Sectionunpublishednot peer ...
Havera, Stephen P.
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Public Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A “whole community” strategy is central to disaster management and community resilience in the United States. However, the specific means by which community‐level stakeholders in the private and nonprofit sectors function as partners with government agencies in providing key disaster‐related services are currently underexamined.
Suyang Yu, Brian J. Gerber
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Automatic Matching of Bullet Land Impressions [PDF]
arXiv, 2016 In 2009, the National Academy of Sciences published a report questioning the scientific validity of many forensic methods including firearm examination. Firearm examination is a forensic tool used to help the court determine whether two bullets were fired from the same gun barrel.
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At their fingertips: What is the impact of online reporting of domestic violence?
Public 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
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