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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
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Civility, honour and male aggression in early modern English jestbooks

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article discusses the comical representation of inter‐male violence within early modern English jestbooks. It is based on a rigorous survey of the genre, picking out common themes and anecdotes, as well as discussing their reception and sociable functions. Previous scholarship has focused on patriarchs, subversive youths and impoliteness.
Tim Somers
wiley   +1 more source

Statistical Signs of Social Influence on Suicides [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2014
Certain currents in sociology consider society as being composed of autonomous individuals with independent psychologies. Others, however, deem our actions as strongly influenced by the accepted standards of social behavior. The later view was central to the positivist conception of society when in 1887 \'Emile Durkheim published his monograph Suicide (
arxiv  

Homicide in Alaska, 1986–2015 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Revised 1 Feb 2017. Data available in both Excel and PDF format. (Download below.)This fact sheet presents data reported on homicides in Alaska from 1986 to 2015 as reported in the Alaska Department of Public Safety publication Crime in Alaska.
Parker, Khristy
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Classification of serial homicide and comparison of serial homicide with single homicide in Japan

open access: yesThe Japanese journal of psychology, 2017
It is reported that there are no victim-offender relationships in serial homicides, so offender profiling is useful for resolution of serial homicide cases. The present study aimed to describe characteristics of serial homicide offenders as a part of offender profiling and compare characteristics of serial homicide with those of single homicide ...
Kiyomitsu Niioka   +3 more
openaire   +4 more sources

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

ASPECTE TEORETICE ŞI PRACTICE PRIVIND OMORUL SĂVÂRŞIT ÎN PUBLIC

open access: yesEIRP Proceedings, 2006
The purpose of this paper is to clarify several aspects related to the interpretation of homicide comitted in public places in judiciary theory and practice. Using pertinent arguments one can mention the situations that lead to a legislative gap, because
Andreea Marina Cimpoieru
doaj  

US homicide rates increase when resources are scarce and unequally distributed

open access: yesEvolutionary Human Sciences
As homicide rates spike across the United States, researchers nominate diverse causes such as temperature, city greenness, structural racism, inequality, poverty and more.
Weston C. McCool, Brian F. Codding
doaj   +1 more source

Tracking America's Unsolved Homicides [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
More than half of America's major police departments are struggling to solve homicides at the same level of success they enjoyed a decade ago, according to a study of federal crime records by the nonprofit Murder Accountability Project.The study focused ...
Eric Witzig
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