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Supply Base attributes and diversion risk in a supply chain for hazardous pharmaceutical products
Abstract We develop a novel construct, diversion risk, defined as the potential for post‐retail diversion that results from increased sales of hazardous goods. We examine diversion risk in the context of prescription opioid sales in the United States. We ask how supply base attributes and nonprofit ownership influence the creation of opioid diversion ...
Paul F. Skilton+3 more
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SOME FORENSIC ASPECTS OF BALLISTIC IMAGING [PDF]
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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Structuring the Prison Life Index Through Value Focused Thinking Methodology
ABSTRACT Building a composite index (CI) is a task that requiring a series of decisions, the consequences of which will determine the scope of the tool. This is especially true for the very first steps of this construction: the definition of the theoretical framework and the selection of relevant indicators, usually referred to as the construction of ...
Lola Martin‐Moro+2 more
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ABSTRACT The collateral consequences of justice involvement have become the subject of much reform activity in recent years. Drawing from a sample of 284 news articles, the present study uses content analysis methods to identify and examine the dominant frames that characterize collateral consequences in public discourse as a problematic feature of ...
David McElhattan
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Abstract Since Nigeria’s return to democratic governance in 1999, there have been renewed calls―predominantly amongst ethnic Igbos in southeast Nigeria―for the restoration of the defunct secessionist state of Biafra. The resurgent Biafran separatism has been explored through the prisms of relative marginalisation and material deprivation. However, some
Promise Frank Ejiofor
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Integrated Design and Prototyping of a Robotic Head for Ocular and Craniofacial Trauma Simulators
ABSTRACT Background Medical simulation is relevant for training medical personnel in the delivery of medical and trauma care, with benefits including quantitative evaluation and increased patient safety through reduced need to train on patients. Methods This paper presents a prototype medical simulator focusing on ocular and craniofacial trauma (OCF ...
Marcello Gallerani+4 more
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Gun Enforcement and Gun Violence Prevention Practices among Local Law Enforcement Agencies: A Research and Policy Brief [PDF]
Controlling gun crime continues to be a difficult challenge for policymakers and practitioners in the United States. In 2009, there were roughly 11,000 murders with firearms in the United State and another 326,000 non-fatal violent crimes with guns . The
Christopher S. Koper
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Abstract Background Most people with dementia (PWD) in the United States live in community settings supported by family and/or unpaid care partners. Firearms access is one of many decisions care partners navigate alongside PWD in efforts to prevent injuries and deaths.
Christopher E. Knoepke+9 more
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Juvenile Victims of Property Crimes. [PDF]
Property crime is the most frequent kind of criminal victimization and one with important economic and psychological consequences, although it has not received the same public attention as violent crime in recent years. Property crime victimization rates
Finkelhor, David, Ormrod, Richard
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There Goes the Neighborhood: The Bush-Ashcroft Plan to [PDF]
The centerpiece of President Bush's crimefighting program is an initiative called Project Safe Neighborhoods. That initiative calls for the hiring of some 700 lawyers who will be dedicated to prosecuting firearm offenses, such as the unlawful possession ...
Gene Healy
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