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No Offense! On the Offense Principle and Some New Challenges

open access: yesCriminal Law and Philosophy, 2014
A central aim within criminal justice ethics is to give a plausible justification concerning which type of acts ought to be criminalized by the state. One of the principles of criminalization which has been presented and critically discussed in the philosophical literature is the Offense Principle.
Petersen, Thomas Søbirk
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A Firesetting Offense Chain for Mentally Disordered Offenders [PDF]

open access: yesCriminal Justice and Behavior, 2014
Relatively little effort has been made to develop and validate theories that explain firesetting. In this study, the first offense chain model of firesetting in mentally disordered offenders was developed.
Nichola Tyler   +2 more
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The Offensive Wrist

Clinical Nuclear Medicine, 1986
Fencing between injection of Tc-99m MDP and imaging resulted in a diffuse increase in radioactivity in the asymptomatic wrist of a right-handed fencer. Repeat study two weeks later showed normal distribution of radiopharmaceutical. At that time, the athlete was fenced into the patient waiting area between injection and scan.
M L, Jackson, C R, Goldfarb, F, Ongseng
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Offensive Music in the OR

Virtual Mentor, 2003
Medical students should not fear retribution for speaking up when a senior staff member is behaving in a manner that threatens a professional workplace environment. Virtual Mentor is a monthly bioethics journal published by the American Medical Association.
Rachel, Sackrowitz, Kenneth M, Sutin
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Hateful Memes, Offensive or Non-offensive!

2021
Memes are a form of friendly exchange between one another and can guide one smoothly over a conflict or come to a meaningful conclusion. Detection of offensive and hate speech-related content in social media memes has been investigated in a single modality only, i.e. considering only text or only image.
Sujata Khedkar   +3 more
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Taking Offense at Offense-Defense Theory

International Security, 1998
In his article "Offense, Defense, and the Causes of War,"' Stephen Van Evera claims that "offense-defense theory" is "important," has "wide explanatory range.... wide realworld applicability.... large prescriptive utility.... [and] is quite satisfying" (p. 41). Van Evera's conclusions are, however, unwarranted.
James W. Davis   +5 more
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Drawing Offensive/Offensive Drawing: Toward a Theory of Mariconography

MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, 2014
On September 15, 2012, Toronto Blue Jays shortstop Yunel Escobar took to the diamond of Rogers Centre armed with all the accoutrements of a professional baseball player facing off against his team’s adversaries, the Boston Red Sox: oiled glove in hand, sunglasses to deflect the intrusive stadium lighting, and eye black to withstand the sun’s glare ...
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Status Offenses

The Future of Children, 1996
Public policy is unsettled with regard to juvenile status offenders--children who are subject to juvenile court jurisdiction for noncriminal behavior such as running away from home, incorrigibility, truancy, and curfew violation. In 1974, the federal Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act initiated a national policy of status offender ...
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The Offensiveness of Offense

1994
Abstract In associating the offense primarily with the idols that Yahweh “lays” and “becomes” in the Hebrew Bible and with Jesus in the New Testament, and in asserting, with Kierkegaard, that the offense is essential to faith, I appear to be arguing-as indeed I am-that the Bible posits the offense as both necessary and valuable ...
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On the Offensive

2020
I'm not a racist, but… You look good, for your age… She was asking for it… You're crazy… That's so gay… Have you ever wondered why certain language has the power to offend? It is often difficult to recognize the veiled racism, sexism, ageism (and other –isms) that hide in our everyday discourse. This book sheds light on the derogatory phrases, insults,
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