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The Karamazov Murder Trial: Dostoevsky\u27s Rejoinder to Compassionate Acquittals [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Gary Rosenshield has argued that the miscarriage of justice Dostoevsky depicts in the final book of The Brothers Karamazov, where an innocent man is wrongly convicted in a court of law for a crime he did not commit, may be read as the novelists attempt ...
LeBlanc, Ronald D.
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The role of defendant race, expert testimony and interrogation coerciveness on Canadian mock jurors' perceptions of recanted confessions

open access: yesLegal and Criminological Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Purpose In some contexts, US‐based White jurors appear to exhibit a heightened focus on legally relevant information when the defendant is Black as compared to White. The current study tested this ‘watchdog’ effect in the Canadian context by examining mock jurors' decisions using a trial involving a recanted confession with an Indigenous or a ...
Logan Ewanation, Evelyn M. Maeder
wiley   +1 more source

Ethno-Spirituality: A Postcolonial Problematic? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This article explores the nature of spirituality in African traditions, for which we use the term ethno-spirituality. We examine the assumptions and effects of western missionaries, and how African spirituality negotiated with these new ideas and merged ...
Bigger, Stephen
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Intimates, acquaintances or strangers? Profiling the victim–offender relationship in homicides through offenders' behavioural patterns

open access: yesLegal 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

Medical pluralism and kincentric care in Indigenous Australia: Yanyuwa experiences of illness and the importance of keeping company

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract For over four decades we have collaborated as a team of anthropologists and Indigenous Elders of the Yanyuwa language group. The Yanyuwa are the Indigenous owners of lands and waters in Australia's Gulf of Carpentaria. While medicalized healthcare has not been our specific research focus, wellness and ill health have been recurring themes ...
Amanda Kearney   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Intimate partner violence and stalking\ud [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
“Stalker guilty of stabbing ex-girlfriend to death in "brutal' attack”, reads the London Evening Standard news headline (Bailey, 2010). This article goes onto describe how Gemma Doorman, 24, was stabbed to death in July 2008, as she left a restaurant in ...
Bowen, Erica, Dixon, Louise
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The Use of Home Fortification Products in Humanitarian Settings: A Scoping Review

open access: yesMaternal &Child Nutrition, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Home fortification products (HFPs), including multiple micronutrient powders and small‐quantity lipid‐based nutrient supplements, are specialized, nutrient‐filled products added to foods with the aim of filling critical nutrient gaps. Despite their potential, there is limited documentation of the use of HFPs in humanitarian settings.
Jacqueline M. Lauer   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Aching for Affection [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
As humans, we’ve needed companionship from the beginning of time. Therefore, what does a true relationship look like in today’s society? In this world of newly emerging relationships, many people have either experienced, seen, or heard of a toxic ...
Quinlan, TJ
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A portrait unseen: Neil Bartlett's queer theatrical adaptation of Wilde's Dorian Gray

open access: yesOrbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract Neil Bartlett's 2012 theatrical adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray presents a provocative reimagining of Wilde's novel, emphasizing its homoerotic and aesthetic dimensions while engaging with the historical and cultural anxieties surrounding queerness.
Younes Poorghorban
wiley   +1 more source

Explaining Taxes at the Upper Tail of the Income Distribution: The Role of Utility Interdependence [PDF]

open access: yes
Optimal tax theory has difficulty rationalizing high marginal tax rates at the upper end of the income distribution. In this paper, I construct a model of optimal income taxation in which agents' preferences are interdependent.
Samano, Daniel
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