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Good Person, Good Prosecutor in 2018 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Nearly twenty years ago, I wrote an essay on the ethics of prosecution in a time of mass incarceration called “Can You Be a Good Person and a Good Prosecutor?” I am both pleased and perplexed that the essay, which caused some controversy at the time ...
Smith, Abbe
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Obstructing justice : the federal government’s disuse of deferred prosecution agreements for non-corporate defendants [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Deferred prosecution agreements (DPAs) are voluntary agreements between prosecutors and defendants in which the government agrees to suspend prosecution for a specified period of time while the defendant is monitored for compliance with certain ...
Swift, Alethea Anne
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Resilience Practices and Post‐Traumatic Growth Among Sudanese IDPs

open access: yesConflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this paper we examine the resilience of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Sudan who have endured various forms of suffering resulting from being targeted or trapped by militants involved in large‐scale violence. Upon escaping the conflict zones, the civilians exhibit strength, adaptability, and wisdom in the face of various threats to ...
Karina Korostelina   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A comprehensive embryonic staging series of the turtle Trachemys scripta

open access: yesDevelopmental Dynamics, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Turtles hold a unique place in vertebrate evolutionary history, making them critical assets in embryology research. Yet, they remain understudied as potential model organisms in the field. Here, to support experimental manipulations with turtle embryos, we have created a complete normal table of development for comprehensive ...
Christina M. Noravian   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bottlenecks‐Breaking in Zinc‐Iodine Batteries Toward Practical Implementation: A Review and Perspective

open access: yesENERGY &ENVIRONMENTAL MATERIALS, EarlyView.
Aqueous zinc–iodine batteries (Zn–I2Bs) offer promise for grid storage due to safety and cost advantages yet face critical bottlenecks: severe self‐discharge (polyiodide shuttling and HER), limited energy density, sluggish kinetics, and zinc anode instability.
Jia‐Lin Yang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Love is in the Airwaves: Contesting Mass Incarceration with Prisoners\u27 Radio [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Building on bell hooks’ conceptualization of love as a mode of political resistance, this article explores how prisoners’ radio employs love to combat injustice.
Benson, Eleanor R.
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Timing is everything: Expert opinion on researching epilepsy rhythms by the ILAE Task Force on Chronobiology

open access: yesEpilepsia, EarlyView.
Abstract Recurrent seizures, the hallmark of epilepsy, are influenced by rhythms operating over multiple timescales. Chronobiology is the study of biological timing that aims to explain temporal patterns of events like seizures. Fueled by recent advances in genetics, computational modeling, and device engineering, the chronobiology of epilepsy is now a
Maxime O. Baud   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Does US mass incarceration work? When you look at other countries, the numbers just don’t add up. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Despite a declining prison population, the US still sends more people to jail per capita than any other country. But does this predilection towards incarceration lead to lower crime rates? By relating crime and incarceration data to country-specific data
Spamann, Holger
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