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Uncivil Disobedience: Political Commitment and Violence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Standard accounts of civil disobedience include nonviolence as a necessary condition. Here I argue that such accounts are mistaken and that civil disobedience can include violence in many aspects, primarily excepting violence directed at other persons. I
Adams, N. P.
core  

Civility, honour and male aggression in early modern English jestbooks

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article discusses the comical representation of inter‐male violence within early modern English jestbooks. It is based on a rigorous survey of the genre, picking out common themes and anecdotes, as well as discussing their reception and sociable functions. Previous scholarship has focused on patriarchs, subversive youths and impoliteness.
Tim Somers
wiley   +1 more source

Nonviolence and civil disobedience

open access: yesDesafíos, 2012
This paper analyzes and describes the relationship between nonviolence and civil disobedience, stressing that both of them converge on the same ethical foundation and are an expression of the relationship between citizens and the political power.
Gilma Ballesteros - Peluffo
doaj  

Institutional and symbolic violence as antinomy of law: for non-violence as fundamental legal preceito

open access: yesRevista Videre, 2020
This article aims to study the violence materialized through the acts of wars between nations and the actions of the State – at the national level – as a monopoly on public and institutional violence or said to be legitimate and authorized by the legal ...
Andre Luiz Valim Vieira
doaj   +1 more source

PACIFISM AS AN ETHICAL RESPONSE TO WAR AND POLITICAL VIOLENCE [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
. An early perception of pacifism was known even in Latium, a small area in Ancient Rome. Its meaning, in the language then spoken, arose from the word (ficus) that personifies the very coming into being of harmonious relations between nations (
Peulić, Duško
core   +2 more sources

Defining and measuring homicide rates for birth cohorts: Methodological and theoretical challenges and solutions

open access: yesCriminology, EarlyView.
Abstract Social scientists have long been interested in understanding how age, period, and cohort effects shape long‐term homicide trends. Yet fundamental measurement challenges remain pervasive in estimating age‐specific homicide rates for birth cohorts.
Jason Robey, Matt Vogel
wiley   +1 more source

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

open access: yesCriminology, EarlyView.
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

Dynamics of Leadership Styles Within the Ogoni and Ijaw Movements in the Niger Delta

open access: yesJournal of Social and Political Psychology, 2020
Much of the literature on the Niger Delta deals with the Ogoni and Ijaw groups together, as having common lived experiences within a shared geographical location.
Zainab Ladan Mai-Bornu
doaj   +1 more source

The Relationship Between Psychological Capital and Students' Choice of Interaction Positions and Self-affirmation Strategies

open access: yesРоссийский психологический журнал, 2023
Introduction. The relevance of the problem is caused by the importance of studying the role of various factors, in particular, psychological capital, in people's choice of interaction positions and self-affirmation strategies. The novelty of the research
Владимир Г. Маралов   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Statewide sanctuary policies and female homicide rates, 2016–2021

open access: yesCriminology, EarlyView.
Abstract The current study examines whether state immigration enforcement policies, such as sanctuary policies that limit local police cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, are associated with female homicide rates in the United States (2016–2021).
Kaitlin M. Boyle   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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