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Intimates, acquaintances or strangers? Profiling the victim–offender relationship in homicides through offenders' behavioural patterns

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
wiley   +1 more source

Employee perceptions regarding whistle-blowing in the workplace: A South African perspective

SA Journal of Human Resource Management, 2008
The purpose of whistle-blowing is to eradicate unethical behaviour in the work place. This article investigates the perceptions of South African employees (n=387) employed in medium and large organisations regarding whistle-blowing.
Sandra Perks, Elroy E. Smith
doaj   +1 more source

Seeking help, doing gender: Gender differences in facilitators of psychotherapy use—A qualitative study

Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, EarlyView.
Abstract Objectives This study examines how individuals “do gender” in their help‐seeking for psychotherapy, focusing on the facilitators that support entry into treatment and the ways these are articulated by women and men. Design A qualitative study design was adopted, guided by the theoretical framework of doing gender and complemented by a mixed ...
Yvonne Schaffler, Katja Haider, Elke Humer, Erwin Schweitzer, Thomas Probst, Christoph Pieh, Brigitte Schigl   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Resource Substitution: Local Governments' Issue Attention and Policy Reinvention

Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research on policy reinvention, where a government modifies rather than replicates policy innovations introduced by other governments, has progressed significantly, but how it is influenced by the government's issue attention has not been thoroughly examined.
Yingxin Zhang, Yixue Yao, Kaifeng Yang
wiley   +1 more source

Leveraging an Unhappiness Lens for Smarter Policies

Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Traditional policy research has largely focused on enhancing happiness or well‐being, privileging positive outcomes as the primary metric of success. We argue that a systematic focus on the drivers of unhappiness—rather than solely on happiness—offers a complementary analytical framework that can uncover hidden societal deficits and broaden ...
Marine Coupaud, Gilles Grolleau, Naoufel Mzoughi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reengaging Criminology in Regulation and Governance: A Synergistic Research Agenda on Regulatory Guardianship

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent literature calls for scholars to bridge the divide that has emerged between criminology and regulation and governance. In the current work, we propose that criminological opportunity theories provide one fruitful pathway to that end.
Carole Gibbs, Fiona Chan, Rachel Boratto, Tyler Hug   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Knowledge on availability of suicide preventive services among undergraduate students at a public university in Ghana

International Journal of Africa Nursing Sciences
Background: The incidence of suicide cases and its related episodes is on the increase in tertiary institutions and attracts extreme mass media attention. Globally, over 800,000 people die of suicide every year and it is the second leading cause of death
Koduah Amankwah, Apedani Dominic, Azie Aren-enge Reubean, Ankamah Ababio Christian, Odotei Adjei Rose, Brempong Appiah Emmanuel, Okyere Paul   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

“I Paid A Bribe”—Lessons and Insights From Crowdsourced Corruption Reporting in India

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Preventing and reducing corruption has proven to be an enormous challenge. An important step in this process is to produce and use good metrics to identify where anti‐corruption resources would be most beneficial. Most measures of corruption, however, rely on surveys of perceptions or bribery incidence.
Ina Kubbe, Bonnie J. Palifka, Lasse Buschmann Alsbirk   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Powers and Practices in Labor Standards Enforcement

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Wage theft remains a pervasive problem internationally and within the United States. In response, worker advocates have sought stronger laws to deter violations and promote compliance. Yet formal authority alone may be insufficient; labor departments often fail to use the full extent of their legal authority to conduct vigorous enforcement ...
Daniel J. Galvin, Hana Shepherd, Jenn Round, Jake Barnes, Janice Fine   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Due Diligence Legislation and the Politics of Implementation: The Case of the German Supply Chain Law

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The article examines the implementation of mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence regulations as a politically formative process. Integrating insights from global value chain (GVC) research with the assumptions of legal struggles and legal endogeneity, the article analyses how administrative practice shapes the meaning and ...
Christian Scheper
wiley   +1 more source