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The spate of spousal homicide in Nigeria: Reconsidering the Christian divorce prohibition
Theologia ViatorumIn recent times, spousal homicide resulting from domestic violence has been on the increase in Nigeria, and one major factor responsible for this is the Christian doctrine that prohibits divorce.
Solomon O. Ademiluka
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Multidimensional Militarisation, Evidence From Mexico's War on Drugs
International Social Science Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article documents different dimensions of militarisation observed in Mexico since the start of the war on drugs. It argues that militarisation is a multidirectional phenomenon that is characterised by rationales that justify the use of illegal means to address complex issues, promising expediency and efficiency but rarely delivering on it.
Agustin Hernandez Berea
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What’s at Stake for Women in Mexico after the 2024 Presidential Elections?
Estudios SociológicosThe next president of Mexico will almost certainly be a woman since both major coalitions have nom- inated women for the 2024 presidential election. Which candidate is likely to more effectively ad- dress the crisis of gender violence?
Caroline Beer
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Maternal Identity Among Mothers Who Survived Near‐Lethal Violence
Journal of Marriage and Family, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective This study explores how mothers reconstructed their identity after surviving an attempted intimate partner homicide (IPH), in cases where their children were either directly or indirectly impacted by the violence. Background Although growing research has addressed risk factors and relationship dynamics preceding IPH, limited ...
Hila Avieli
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Organized Crime, Corruption, and Economic Growth
Journal of Regional Science, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 535-560, March 2025.ABSTRACT In this paper, we study the relationship between organized crime, corruption, and economic growth on a data set from Italian regions for the period 1996–2013. Our working hypothesis is that organized crime can embezzle part of the public expenditure aimed at productive uses by threatening and bribing public officers. To assess the consequences
Tamara Fioroni +2 more
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Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Mental health nursing in the United Kingdom has developed along a distinctive historical and legal trajectory shaped by statutory frameworks governing mental distress, detention, capacity and coercion. While adult/general nursing largely professionalised through Nightingalean reform, biomedicine and public health, mental health ...
Victoria Sweetmore
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Demografía, juventud y homicidios en Colombia, 1979-2006
Lecturas de Economía, 2010 During the sixties, Colombian population grew faster than ever. Children that were born during that particular period became young adults in the decades of the eighties and nineties, the same years in which homicide rates reached historical maximums. The
Leonardo Bonilla Mejía
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“Me and God, We're Good”: Abortion Morality and Protestant Women Having Abortions in the South
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how 84 Protestant women in the South understand the morality of their abortion decisions, offering a nuanced perspective on the complex relationship between religion and abortion and revealing that many women navigate abortion decisions with theological depth, moral reasoning, and a profound sense of responsibility.
Rebecca Todd Peters
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Legal and Criminological Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Aims This study examined behavioural heterogeneity across three victim–offender relationship categories in a non‐Western context to determine whether specific patterns can accurately predict intimate/family, acquaintance/friend and stranger homicides.
Ruihan Chen
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