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Age, Poverty, Homicide, and Gun Homicide

open access: yesSAGE Open, 2015
Traditional theories of “adolescent risk taking” have not been validated against recent research indicating that youthful traffic crash, violent crime, felony crime, and firearms mortality rates reflect young people’s low-socio-economic status (SES ...
Mike Males
doaj   +1 more source

Murder by Numbers: Socio-Economic Determinants of Homicide and Civil War [PDF]

open access: yes
Deliberate killing is a common part of the defining features of both homicide and civil war. Often, the scale of killing is also similar: most countries have homicide rates that exceed the threshold of one thousand combat-related deaths during a year ...
Anke Hoeffler, Paul Collier
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Housing and Homicide [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
In the 1990s, homicide and violent crime dropped dramatically in New York City but not in Chicago. No single factor can fully explain the reasons for Chicago's persistently high rates of violence.
John M. Hagedorn
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Hired Childcare and Changing Maternal Perceptions Among the Urban Poor: Baby Farming in the Western Lands of Late Imperial Russia

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores baby farming in the western regions of late imperial Russia, framing it as a childcare practice of the lower‐classes – a form of crèche for working mothers. The article delves into the public discourse surrounding baby farming among the educated strata and contrasts it with how this practice was viewed by the lower ...
Ekaterina Oleshkevich
wiley   +1 more source

Same-sex intimate partner homicide in Australia [PDF]

open access: yes
This study uses data from the National Homicide Monitoring Program within a context of national and international research to describe what is known about the trends and key characteristics of same-sex intimate partner homicide in Australia.
Alexandra Gannoni, Tracy Cussen
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Corporate Criminal Liability for Homicide: A Statutory Framework [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Since the nineteenth century, judges, legislators, prosecutors, and academics have grappled with how best to accommodate within the criminal law corporations whose conduct causes the death of others.
Harlow, James W.
core   +1 more source

What Is Justice? Reflections on the Criminal Justice System in Brazil

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay explores the possibility of justice for the wretched of the earth. Using escrevivência (writing the experience/existence) and drawing on the theoretical insights and political praxis of the Assessoria Popular Maria Felipa (APMF, Maria Felipa Advocacy Group)—a Brazilian abolitionist organization led by Black activists—we analyze how ...
Fernanda Oliveira   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Workplace Violence Against Government Employees, 1994-2011 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
[Excerpt] The higher rates of workplace violence in the government were partly due to the high rates of workplace violence attributed to law enforcement and security employees (figure 2).
Harrell, Erika
core   +1 more source

Homicide through a Different Lens [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in British Journal of Criminology following peer review. The version of record Morris, P.K.
Graycar, Adam, Morris, P K
core   +1 more source

Traditional Versus Contemporary Models for Identifying Causes of Maternal Death: A Population‐Based Study

open access: yesBJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics &Gynaecology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To examine differences in cause‐of‐maternal‐death assignment based on underlying versus multiple causes of death. Design Cross‐sectional, population‐based study. Setting United States, 1999–2002 and 2018–2022. Population 1633 maternal deaths in 1999–2002 and 1929 maternal deaths in 2018–2022.
Yasser Sabr   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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