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The hidden discount: Examining racial disparity in the use of suspended sentences

open access: yesCriminology, Volume 64, Issue 2, Page 450-484, May 2026.
Abstract Extant research on criminal sentencing generally concludes that racial/ethnic disparity is concentrated in the “in–out” decision, and that racial differences in sentence lengths are small and inconsistent. However, sentence length analyses rarely focus on the fact that criminal sentences are often partially or fully suspended, creating ...
Kevin Petersen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring the Disciplinary State: The Pace and Pattern of ‘Getting Tough’ in Denmark, Germany and the United Kingdom Since 1990

open access: yesSocial Policy &Administration, Volume 60, Issue 3, Page 369-379, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Welfare states in rich democracies have returned to a more ‘disciplinary’ agenda in recent decades. This has occurred roughly simultaneously with the so‐called ‘punitive turn’ in criminal justice. We argue that it makes sense to analyse the two movements together, as manifestations of the novel concept of the ‘disciplinary state’. Empirically,
Peter Starke, Georg Wenzelburger
wiley   +1 more source

Corporate Lobbying as Anticompetitive Behaviour in the EU

open access: yesEuropean Law Journal, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 38-54, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Despite the influence of ordoliberalism in EU law, the mutual feedback between market power and political influence of dominant corporations has not become an explicit consideration in competition law enforcement and has remained rather in the background as an implicit rationale. If the threats to competition posed by regulatory capture are to
Francisco E. Beneke Avila
wiley   +1 more source

The Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility Internationally—History, Systems and the Future

open access: yesCriminal Behaviour and Mental Health, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 21-32, February 2026.
ABSTRACT Background In most countries, a criminal conviction requires evidence that the individual committed the act and that they had the mental capacity to understand what they were doing and that it was wrong. Youth, as an indicator of brain development, is one factor affecting criminal capacity.
Enys Delmage   +18 more
wiley   +1 more source

Using a bivariate generalized linear mixed model to analyze the effect of feeding pressure on pine weevil damage

open access: yesSilva Fennica, 2016
The objective of the study is to derive a method by which one can analyze how the probability of damage made by pine weevils on seedlings treated with insecticides depends on the probability of damage on untreated control seedlings, called feeding ...
Lappi, Juha, Luoranen, Jaana
doaj   +1 more source

Entry Deterrence, Macroeconomic Equilibria and Pro‐Competitive Policies

open access: yesMetroeconomica, Volume 77, Issue 1, Page 71-81, February 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper achieves a macroeconomic equilibrium which is microfounded on an oligopolistic entry deterrence game à la Dixit‐Spence. This equilibrium has implications for pro‐competitive policies which differ from those obtained by models based on a monopolistic competition framework: (i) positive effects on employment and real wage of a policy ...
Claudio De Vincenti
wiley   +1 more source

Tactical Size Unit as Distribution in a Data Farming Environment

open access: yesAxioms, 2016
In agent based models, the agents are usually platforms (individual soldiers, tanks, helicopters, etc.), not military units. In the Sandis software, the agents can be platoon size units.
Esa Lappi, Bernt Åkesson
doaj   +1 more source

A Zosteriform Papular Cutaneous Eruption

open access: yes
JEADV Clinical Practice, Volume 5, Issue 2, Page 728-730, June 2026.
Silvia Borriello   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Will to Decarbonize: Problematizing European Just Transition Governance

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, Volume 35, Issue 6, Page 998-1011, December 2025.
ABSTRACT In December 2019, the European Commission launched the European Green Deal (EGD) and hereby ramped up the climate ambitions of the European Union. Responding to a mounting sense of climate urgency, the European Commission proposed a comprehensive reform program to make the EU's economy climate neutral by 2050.
Eva Lövbrand   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A utility model for timber production based on different interest rates for loans and savings.

open access: yesSilva Fennica, 1985
The paper discusses the evaluation of timber production policies with different income (timber drain) schedules. Special attention is given to the temporal smoothness of the income flow. A utility model is formulated in which the objective is to maximize
Lappi, Juha, Siitonen, Markku
doaj   +1 more source

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