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Analysis of the geographic pattern of the police reports for domestic violence in Girona (Spain)

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2022
Background There are many studies that address the issue of gender-based violence, but few analyse the police-reported cases. It is as important to analyse the temporal and geographic distribution of these incidents as it is the sociodemographic profile ...
Laura Serra   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Impact of Police Violence on Mental Health: A Theoretical Framework.

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Public Health, 2020
Police violence has increasingly been recognized as a public health concern in the United States, and accumulating evidence has shown police violence exposure to be linked to a broad range of health and mental health outcomes.
J. Devylder, L. Fedina, B. Link
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Phenomenon of Sexual Violence among Adolescents in the Jurisdiction of the West Jakarta National Police Resort and Its Prevention Efforts

open access: yesFiat Justisia, 2019
The writing of this scientific paper examines the lack of legal awareness of the community about sexual violence. This scientific work arose because the author saw that there were still many cases of sexual violence even though there were rules governing
Charina Putri Besila   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Making inferences about racial disparities in police violence. [PDF]

open access: yesProc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2020
A recent PNAS study, Johnson et al. (1), investigates the role of race in fatal police shootings. Unlike previous studies which focused on victim race alone, the paper features original data about the race of officers who use deadly force and offers a ...
Knox D, Mummolo J.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Police Officers’ Perspectives on State (Police) Violence: A Sociomoral and Psychological-Driven Study on Disengagement

open access: yesJournal of Social and Political Psychology, 2018
This paper comprises a theoretical and empirical incursion into the phenomenon of state violence, namely police violence. Although extensively explored in different perspectives within and outside academia, police violence is complex and has not been ...
Mónica Soares   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Measuring serious violence perpetration: comparison of police-recorded and self-reported data in a UK cohort

open access: yesInternational Journal of Population Data Science
Introduction Determining risk factors and consequences of serious violence requires accurate measures of violence. Self-reported and police-recorded offending are subject to different sources of bias.
Rosie Cornish   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Punishing Protesters on the “Other Side”: Partisan Bias in Public Support for Repressive and Punitive Responses to Protest Violence

open access: yesSocius, 2023
The authors investigated public support for government repression of protests (police repression, legal repression, and punishment of protesters) following incidents of violence and harm.
Jason R. Silver, Luzi Shi
doaj   +1 more source

A history of violence: The shooting in Jerusalem of British Assistant Police Superintendent Alan Sigrist, 12 June 1936 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Copyright @ 2010 The Author. This is the author's accepted manuscript. The final published article is available from the link below.This article provides a narrative of the shooting in Jerusalem by two Palestinian gunmen — Bahjat Abu Gharbiyah and Sami ...
Hughes, M
core   +1 more source

THE SETTLEMENT OF THE DISPUTE OF “COLLECTIVE” VIOLENCE BY THE POLICE

open access: yesJurnal IUS, 2013
Indonesia Republic State Police is a tool that plays a role in maintaining state security and public order, enforce the law and provide protection, guidance, and service to the community within the framework of maintaining internal security “.
M. Yusran
doaj   +1 more source

Legal Protection of Women as Victim of Domestic Violence

open access: yesIndonesian Journal of Advocacy and Legal Services, 2020
This study aims to determine the extent of legal protection by the Women and Children Service Unit (PPA) of the Gorontalo City Resort Police Criminal Investigation Unit against women as victims of domestic violence and to find out what factors are ...
Fence M Wantu   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

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