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2nd Rhode Island Musket [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
This paper examines a musket with unique markings (2 RI) and reports on the weapon\u27s ...
Desmarais, Norman
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How to Diagnose Prisons' Failures: Three Perspectives on Officers' Responsibilities

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Prison officers play a vital role in shaping prison conditions. Assessing their responsibility for, and potential role in reforming, the prison's failures is an urgent and important task in corrective justice efforts. This article takes up this task, with a focus on the US prison context, by applying and critically examining two general ...
Candice Delmas
wiley   +1 more source

SOME FORENSIC ASPECTS OF BALLISTIC IMAGING [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Analysis of ballistics evidence (spent cartridge casings and bullets) has been a staple of forensic criminal investigation for almost a century. Computer-assisted databases of images of ballistics evidence have been used since the mid-1980s to help ...
Cork, Daniel L.   +2 more
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Distribution modelling for Neotropical freshwater stingrays Potamotrygon brachyura and Potamotrygon motoro (Myliobatiformes, Potamotrygonidae) in the Uruguay River basin

open access: yesJournal of Fish Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract This study aimed to identify geographical distribution patterns of the giant short‐tailed river stingray Potamotrygon brachyura and the motoro stingray Potamotrygon motoro in the Uruguay River basin. Data on presence/absence of stingrays were based on fishers' knowledge accessed by interviews through expeditions in Brazil, Argentina and ...
Danilo Araujo Soares Pereira   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Suicide and Self‐Harm in Intellectual Disability: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis

open access: yesJournal of Intellectual Disability Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Individuals with intellectual disabilities (ID) are disproportionately exposed to several risk factors for suicidality. However, no meta‐analysis has yet quantified the relative risk of suicide and self‐harm, including suicide attempts, within this population. The aim of this project was to bring together and synthesise the research
Sara Lindstedt   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

The California Model: Twenty Years of Putting Safety First [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
In the last two decades, with the Law Center's dedicated team of attorneys leading the way, California has become a national leader in the movement for effective gun laws. The rate of gun violence in California has also fallen notably compared to rest of

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Crime Prevention Through Private Actors: Evidence From a Policy Change at a Large UK Supermarket Chain

open access: yesOxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the effectiveness of private actors in contributing to crime prevention. We leverage well‐publicised increases in security measures, including additional security guards and tagging of goods, by Tesco, a large UK supermarket chain.
Nils Braakmann, Wednesday Croft
wiley   +1 more source

How Cities Can Combat Illegal Guns and Gun Violence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Though gun violence peaked in American cities in the early 1990s, firearms are still used in more than 30 homicides per day in the U.S.One major challenge is how to stanch the flow of guns to criminals. Researchers from the School's Center for Gun Policy
Daniel W. Webster   +2 more
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Data‐Driven Implementation Trials: Realizing Their Full Potential in Achieving the Promise of Learning Health Systems

open access: yesLearning Health Systems, Volume 10, Issue 1, January 2026.
ABSTRACT The digital transformation of healthcare has generated unprecedented volumes of routine clinical data, enabling health system leaders, including quality improvement (QI) efforts, to optimize care using real‐time analytics. However, health system QI typically focuses on changes within localized environments; it is often limited in its ability ...
Charis X. Xie   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fear and Challenging Behaviour: A Phenomenological‐Hermeneutic Study of Public Mass Shooting Attacks During the COVID‐19 Pandemic in Thailand

open access: yesNursing Open, Volume 13, Issue 1, January 2026.
ABSTRACT Aim To explore the lived experiences of Thai participants of public mass shooting during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Design A phenomenographic research approach was used. Methods Fifteen participants were recruited using purposive and snowball sampling.
Ek‐Uma Imkome
wiley   +1 more source

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