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Addiction, EarlyView.Abstract Background and aims Drunk‐driving accounts for a significant portion of traffic crashes in Taiwan. From 2008 to 2013, both the Taiwan Legislative Yuan and the federal administrative agencies collaborated to increase drunk‐driving penalties.
Ling‐Wei Kuo +9 more
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Lessons Learned, Lessons Lost: Immigration Enforcement\u27s Failed Experiment with Penal Severity [PDF]
, 2010 This article traces the evolution of “get tough” sentencing and corrections policies that were touted as the solution to a criminal justice system widely viewed as “broken” in the mid-1970s.
Miller, Teresa A.
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Punishment and penal activity : the expansion of legal fines and fees in Texas from 1985 to 2015 [PDF]
, 2018 Across the United States, legal fines and fees generate millions of dollars per year in revenue despite widening the net of criminalization and increasing penal severity for poorer individuals.
Dahaghi, Kevin
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Medically Assisted Dying Practices: What Role for Clinical Ethicists?
Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Medically assisted dying (AD) practices have been legalized in several jurisdictions throughout the world over the last two decades. Because of this increased trend, more individuals now have access to a self‐chosen death. Despite its legalization and the diversity of frameworks governing AD, it remains fraught with ethical challenges. However,
Vanessa Finley‐Roy +3 more
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Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, EarlyView.Abstract Do discriminatory attitudes held in the public influence public institutions? We study this question within the context of the criminal justice system of historical British Columbia (BC). During the late 1870s and early 1880s, an influx of Chinese immigrant workers employed in the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) was the catalyst
Kris Inwood, Ian Keay, Blair Long
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Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Since his election as leader of the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) in 2022, Pierre Poilievre has been associated with populism in media and political discourse, with implicit and explicit comparisons to Donald Trump. This article investigates the validity of such assessments by applying “complex” theories of populism, which conceptualize ...
Efe Peker, Emily Laxer, Rémi Vivès
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Centralization to Consolidation: Some Historical Antecedents of Unified Correctional Systems [PDF]
, 1995 Autonomous prisons in the nineteenth century were often inefficient and highly political. Many state legislatures and governors attempted to move toward centralized control of their state facilities. In the twentieth century the Federal Bureau of Prisons
Schafer, N. E.
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A Risk or a Buffer? The Dual Role of Poverty in Community Perceptions of Child Protection Demand
Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The relationship between poverty and child protection demand is complex. Using macro‐level data from 293 Finnish municipalities, this study applies hierarchical linear regression and mediation analysis to examine how poverty shapes community perceptions of child protection demand. The hierarchical linear regression findings reveal that poverty
Ning Zhu +3 more
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JDDG: Journal der Deutschen Dermatologischen Gesellschaft, EarlyView.Summary Defensive medicine refers to diagnostic or therapeutic actions taken primarily to reduce legal liability rather than to benefit the patient. In dermatopathology, defensive practices manifest in frequent immunohistochemical testing, overly cautious report phrasing, and reliance on multidisciplinary tumor boards.
Cornelia Sigrid Lissi Müller +2 more
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Illinois Government Research no. 56 1983: Prison Capacity and Sentencing Severity: A Look at Illinois, Michigan, and Pennsylvania [PDF]
, 1983 After a brief lull in the late seventies and early eighties, crime is once again a prime concern among a large number of Americans. More people are mentioning crime in periodic surveys of public problems than in the previous decade, and the 1982 ...
Nardulli, Peter F.
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