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The Legislation for Providing Animal Access in Australian Residential Aged Care: It's Not a Zoo

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Providing meaningful animal contact to residential aged care facility (RACF) residents is problematic due to a lack of animal policies and National Guidelines. This paper examines how Australian Legislation could influence access to animal contact in RACFs and aims to answer the question, ‘Could current Legislation facilitate the development ...
Wendy Newton   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Role and Place of the Police in Society and in the State in Current Legal and Interdisciplinary Contexts [PDF]

open access: yesSocietas et Iurisprudentia, 2016
The police as the strength security element of the State mechanism means an autonomous, equivalent, and cooperating element within the security services of the State. This paper represents an outline of the role and the place of the police in society and
Kristína Králiková
doaj  

Increasing Police Accountability and Improving Use of Force Policies in the United States [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Communities, and their respective police departments, have significant impacts on the social and legal matters they are involved with, making it crucial for both parties to strive to maintain strong, collaborative relationships.
Kwong, Leica
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‘The System Can't Cope’: The Service System Response to Alcohol and Other Drug‐Facilitated Sexual Violence

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Alcohol and other drug‐facilitated sexual violence can have significant impacts on victim‐survivors, yet little is known about what support service providers offer them. To understand the experiences and perceptions of service providers, interviews with counsellors, health workers, forensic toxicologists and harm reduction workers were ...
Jessica Ison   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Police Independence and the Military Police

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2011
This paper examines police independence in the context of the military police. The author concludes that the independence of the military police to investigate both Criminal Code and Code of Service Discipline offences should be recognized as part of the unwritten constitutional principle associated with the rule of law and as a principle of ...
openaire   +3 more sources

The Cost of the National Disability Insurance Scheme: Australia's Print‐Media Discourse

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the way that Australian newspapers have framed the cost of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Introduced in 2013, the NDIS represented a major change in Australia's disability support policy, moving for the first time to a nationwide universal insurance model.
Meera Chinnappa   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Police Response Effort Index to complement counts and harm indices in understanding crime and policing demand

open access: yesCrime Science
Responding to crime and non-crime policing demand in the increasingly complex policing environment calls for increasingly nuanced means of measuring demand. Complementing traditional crime counts, the recent development of crime harm indices provides one
Sophie Curtis-Ham   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

A large-scale analysis of racial disparities in police stops across the United States

open access: yesNature Human Behaviour, 2020
E. Pierson   +10 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

"We Own the Night:" Amadou Diallo's Deadly Encounter with New York City's Street Crimes Unit [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
Amadou Diallo died in a hail of police bullets in February 1999. The police thought Diallo was a serial rapist who was drawing a pistol against them, but Diallo was an innocent man who was unarmed.
Timothy Lynch
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