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Abstract Objective This study explored the sociodemographic characteristics of men convicted of intimate partner violence (IPV), their childhood exposure to violence, gender norms, and the meanings they attribute to their use of violence. Background Guided by the ecological framework for understanding IPV, violence is conceptualized as the outcome of ...
Fatma Ayhan
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ABSTRACT This article provides one of the first broad reviews of global research on public opinion regarding the age of criminal responsibility (ACR) alongside findings from a small‐scale exploratory survey of adults in England and Wales. Reviewed studies show strong support for raising the ACR across regions like Scotland, Australia, Hong Kong and ...
Harriet Pierpoint, Kathy Hampson
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ABSTRACT Research has highlighted the widespread occurrence of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) among justice‐involved young people who commit violent offences. This article explores the complex relationship between ACEs and serious youth violence.
Paul Gray, Deborah Jump
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Multidimensional Militarisation, Evidence From Mexico's War on Drugs
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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Maternal Identity Among Mothers Who Survived Near‐Lethal Violence
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
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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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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The spate of spousal homicide in Nigeria: Reconsidering the Christian divorce prohibition
In 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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“Me and God, We're Good”: Abortion Morality and Protestant Women Having Abortions in the South
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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