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Homicide, punishment and deterrence in Australia

open access: yesSouthern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Australian data encompassing 1910–2022, by year and state, were analyzed to estimate the effect of capital punishment on homicide rates. Our estimates showed that capital punishment had a negative and significant effect on homicides. In some specifications, the estimates implied that an execution was associated with 12.68 fewer homicides ...
Hugh Farrell, Vincent O'Sullivan
wiley   +1 more source

Epistemological Implications of a System—Theoretical Understanding for Sustainability Models

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the sense of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), global efforts to create a sustainable society will not be sufficiently successful under the current geopolitical and socio‐economic trends. For this reason, recent sustainability research has increasingly focused on systemic coherence, the subject of cognition, and psychological and ...
Stefan Stumm
wiley   +1 more source

Moral Communities in a Race Status Negotiation: A Dorm Room Urination Case

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
In 2022, at a South African university, a white student was filmed urinating on the belongings of a black student. Although race was invoked as an a priori account for this incident, we demonstrate how race is made visible and relevant by participants in the interaction through an attempted, yet resisted, status degradation ceremony.
Catherine L. Tam, Daniella Rafaely
wiley   +1 more source

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