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Relative Impact of Underreporting and Desistance on the Dark Figure of Sexual Recidivism
Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sexual recidivism rates based on arrests or convictions underestimate actual reoffending due to underreporting. A previous Monte Carlo simulation estimated actual recidivism rates under various reporting and conviction assumptions but did not account for desistance—the decreasing likelihood of reoffending over time.
Nicholas Scurich, Richard S. John
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Physical Cryptographic Signatures for Absentee Ballots [PDF]
arXiv, 2018 Physical signature verification on absentee ballots became a major flashpoint in the 2018 midterm elections in the United States, especially in states like Georgia, Florida, and Arizona, where close election margins resulted in heightened attention to the counting of absentee ballots. As vote-by-mail solutions are becoming more prevalent across the U.S.
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Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Pareto principle is based on the concept that roughly 80% of outcomes are generated by 20% of inputs, efforts, or contributors within a group. Using a national sample of U.S. prison inmates, we examined various percentile rankings of self‐reported institutional misconduct to determine how much disorder is created behind bars by the most ...
Mark A. Morgan +3 more
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Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Prior theoretical and empirical research examining the influence of sex on sentencing has been primarily concerned with the sex of the offender, as opposed to the victim. The present study drew on a convenience sample of males (n = 1190) in state and federal correctional facilities across the country, examining minimum sentences in relation to
Shawn M. Rolfe +2 more
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“Sorting Things out”: A Scoping Review of Sexual Homicide Typologies
Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sexual homicides are complex crimes that have been the focus of numerous classification systems aimed at aiding investigations, understanding offender behavior, and informing treatment plans. Over the past 25 years, a variety of typologies have been developed to categorize these offenses.
Eric Beauregard, Julien Chopin
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Critical Assessment of the Tie-breaker Rule Using the Example of the DTT Germany-Poland
Prace Naukowe Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego we Wrocławiu, 2019 Taxpayers establishing their economic and personal interests in more than one country run the risk of becoming a tax resident in more than one tax jurisdiction.
Magdalena Janiszewska +2 more
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The High Court of Australie : A Federal Supreme Court in a Common Law Federation
Fédéralisme-Régionalisme, 2017 The High Court of Australia performs several judicial functions that are fundamental to the federal system1. It determines appeals from all state supreme courts and inferior federal courts and it has original jurisdiction in several kinds of matters ...
Nicholas Aroney
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Revista Vasca de Administración Pública, 2014 This work is and introduction to a study entitled ¿The brakes to power (separation of powers and control of the institutions in constitutional systems)¿ which will see the light soon.
Rafael Jiménez Asensio
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines a unique form of public inquiry that we refer to as “privately commissioned public inquiries.” These inquiries focus on events or incidents that indicate broader structural problems of neglect, misjudgment, or injustice. Using qualitative interview methods, we explore such an inquiry in the global mining industry.
Jill Harris, Deanna Kemp, John R. Owen
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study presents a comprehensive analysis of the evolution and challenges of Environmental Management Accounting (EMA) adoption across diverse industries and regions over the past two decades. Through a bibliometric analysis, this study categorizes the literature into three distinct periods, each elucidating crucial developments in EMA ...
Giacomo Zatini +2 more
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