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Social media homicide confessions: Stories of killers and their victims

open access: yes, 2017
The relationship between crime and social media has become an increasingly important topic in a networked world. However, the use of social media in relation to violent crime is little understood.
Yardley, Elizabeth
core   +3 more sources

Alcohol sale status and homicide victimization in Kentucky, 2005-2012: Is there a spatial association?

open access: yesGeospatial Health, 2019
To date, the association between the alcohol sale status of decedents’ residence and alcohol-related homicide victimization have not been studied as far as we know.
Hanan Abdulghafoor Khaleel   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Accomplishing Ethics‐Work as a Generic Social Process

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Existing systems of university research ethics are often criticized by those in the qualitative research tradition. A common thread is that ethics cannot be fully anticipated before the research begins, as is expected by most institutional review boards.
Deana Simonetto, Antony Puddephatt
wiley   +1 more source

Torture and scepticism in Papua New Guinea witch hunts Torture et scepticisme dans les chasses aux sorcières en Papouasie‐Nouvelle‐Guinée

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
For over a century, anthropologists have documented the many institutions that exist to respond to witchcraft and the uncanny that it names: oracles that attempt to produce certainty by naming the witch; moots in which grievances are aired; trials in magistrates’ courts that attempt to satisfy the community while preserving the life of the accused ...
Chloe Nahum‐Claudel
wiley   +1 more source

Mental Health Homicide and Society Understanding Health Care Governance [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The book argues however that patient homicide events and the circumstances in which they occur are communicated about within closed systems of life (eg law, medicine).
Horton, David P
core   +1 more source

Firearm Safety in a Country of Arms

open access: yesThe Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.
Policy Points Firearm safety policy in the United States cannot succeed through legislation alone; effective interventions must also address the social, economic, and infrastructural conditions that shape perceptions of safety. Evidence suggests that place‐based investments can reduce violence and firearm deaths while strengthening social cohesion and ...
JONATHAN M. METZL
wiley   +1 more source

The Carceral Shadow: Criminal Justice as a Determinant of Health and Challenges for Policymakers

open access: yesThe Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.
Policy Points The criminal justice system functions as a primary social determinant of health in the United States, generating disproportionate physical, psychological, and chronic health burdens on Black communities and other marginalized groups. Policing structural barriers—including qualified immunity, police union contracts, and municipal financing
RASHAWN RAY, KEON GILBERT
wiley   +1 more source

Homicides of pregnant female sex workers in three sub‐Saharan African countries

open access: yes
International Journal of Gynecology &Obstetrics, EarlyView.
Heather Thompson   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Firearms as a Market‐Driven Epidemic: Potential Pathways to Reduce Preventable Firearm‐Related Harm in the United States

open access: yesThe Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.
Policy Points For half a century, firearm‐related deaths and injuries have been endemic in the United States, with COVID‐19 contributing to a record high of 48,830 deaths in 2021, an epidemic rate increase. By 2023, national trends masked a significant 10‐fold difference in firearm‐related death rates among states.
ESZTER RIMÁNYI   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Killings short of murder : culpable homicide in Scots law [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This chapter considers Scotland’s lesser homicide offence: culpable homicide. It looks at the breadth of the range of forms of killing covered by this crime from those which are so serious as to sit on the borderline with murder to those which render the
McDiarmid, Claire
core   +3 more sources

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