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Health disparities in chronic liver disease

Hepatology, EarlyView., 2022
Abstract The syndemic of hazardous alcohol consumption, opioid use, and obesity has led to important changes in liver disease epidemiology that have exacerbated health disparities. Health disparities occur when plausibly avoidable health differences are experienced by socially disadvantaged populations.
Ani Kardashian, Marina Serper, Norah Terrault, Lauren D. Nephew   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Socially Embedded Drug Market Based on Trust: Analysis of the Synthetic Drug Supply Market in Belgium

Law & Criminology Journal
Organised crime is often understood as socially embedded, relying on pre-existing social relationships that provide trust and cohesion within criminal networks. This study explores the role of pre-existing social ties within organised crime groups (OCGs)
Sophia De Seranno
doaj   +1 more source

Organised crime in the European Union: The state of the matter and institutional responses [PDF]

Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals, 2010
During the past few decades, organised crime has grown considerably as a consequence of political transformations and global economics. The countries of the European Union are very much aware of this situation, and are taking steps to coordinate ...
Óscar Jaime-Jiménez, Lorenzo Castro Moral   +1 more
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‘Where are the adults?’: Troubling child‐activism and children's political participation

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Children's political participation is a well‐established theme in childhood studies. In this article we offer an original account of child activism that takes into account the entangled and emergent aspect of children as activists. We begin with a historical and a conceptual review, noting the importance of mid‐20th century developments such ...
Sharon Hunter, Claire Cassidy
wiley   +1 more source

Concorso eventuale nell’associazione mafiosa: la formazione del diritto vivente e la praticabilità investigativa e processuale delle soluzioni applicative / Concours externe en association mafieuse : la constitution du droit vivant et l’application possible des solutions envisagées à l’enquête et à la procédure pénale / Possible complicity in mafia organised crime [PDF]

Rivista di Criminologia, Vittimologia e Sicurezza, 2012
While maintaining its inherent characteristics, inspired by a violent logic of domination, the Mafia is evolving, becoming capable of dealing with society in different contexts and in ways that are beyond its archaic methods of operation.In this sense ...
Rombo Vincenzo
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Creating space(s) for learning in prison: Developing an andragogical framework

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Learning in prison is too often excluded from wider discussions of educational experiences, processes and impact. This paper proposes, for the first time, an iterative andragogical framework to conceptualise learning spaces within prison contexts.
Morwenna Bennallick, Jayne Finlay, Ross Little, Helen Nichols   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

School readiness and the good level of development: Policy constructions in English early childhood education

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper critically analyses how school readiness has been historically and discursively constructed in Early Childhood Education (ECE) policy in England over the past four decades. Using Bacchi's ‘What's the Problem Represented to be?’ framework and Foucauldian concepts of governmentality, the paper explores how school readiness has shifted
Louise Kay
wiley   +1 more source

Editorial: Islands of Organised Crime: Spatiality, Mobility and Confinement

, 2019
This special issue aims to explore organised crime and counter-crime responses through the lens of spatiality. We focus on islands—i.e., bounded spaces that are territorially discontinuous vis-à-vis mainland—but we reject geographic determinism and adopt
RUSSO, Alessandra, STRAZZARI, Francesco
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What works in internal alternative provision? A salutogenic analysis

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Schools across England are setting up ‘internal alternative provision’ to meet the social, emotional and mental health needs of increasing numbers of pupils at risk of suspension, exclusion and absence. However, there is little guidance about what good practice looks like.
Emma Simpson
wiley   +1 more source

Public concern about serious organised crime

, 2017
The 2011 cross-government Organised Crime Strategy (Home Office, 2011) emphasises the need for community safety practitioners to provide information to help citizens recognise when they may be vulnerable to serious organised crime so that they might take
Leeney, D, Bullock, K
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