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Correctional officers and drug smuggling: Boundary work, horizontal surveillance, and cultural responses to drug entry

open access: yesCriminology, EarlyView.
Abstract Drug entry into prisons represents a serious issue for both incarcerated people and prison staff. Although substances enter prisons in many ways, staff drug smuggling represents a consistent problem facing correctional institutions globally. We draw on 131 interviews with correctional officers (COs) working in four Western Canadian prisons to ...
William J. Schultz   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Commentary: The Canadian Accounting Hall of Fame—An Analysis of Early Inductees and Immanent Critique*,†

open access: yesAccounting Perspectives, Volume 24, Issue 1, Page 251-274, March 2025.
ABSTRACT The Canadian Accounting Hall of Fame (CAHF) has inducted 31 members during its first three years of operation, with the stated intent of establishing a critical mass of inductees “who have made significant contributions to the development of the Canadian accounting profession” and of creating “a curated biographical history of accounting in ...
Alan J. Richardson
wiley   +1 more source

Freedom and possession in the letters of Andrzej Bobkowski [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
For Bobkowski, to maintain personal freedom based on material independence achieved through his own work was a fundamental existential issue. Freedom and financial independence were: a declaration, a life’s motto and an economic programme.
Ruszar, Józef Maria
core   +2 more sources

Lady Anne Kerr: From the Rise of International Conference Interpreting to the Whitlam Dismissal

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
Before Anne Robson (née Taggart) became the second Lady Kerr upon marrying governor‐general John Kerr in 1975, she had an international career of some 30 years working as a French to English interpreter and consultant at over 30 national and international conferences and became the first Australian elected to the International Association of Conference
Alexis Bergantz
wiley   +1 more source

Review of The Word - Two Hundred Years of Polish Poetry translated by Marcel Weyland [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Review of The Word - Two Hundred Years of Polish Poetry translated by Marcel ...
Rodopoulos, Loula S.
core   +1 more source

Miss(ed) Representation? Gender, Policy Content, and Legislative Success in Australian Private Members' Bills

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
This paper examines the substantive representation of women in Australian legislative institutions by analysing private members' bills introduced at the state and federal levels from 1997 to 2022. While Australia has made considerable progress in gender equality, persistent sexism and misogyny challenge the substantive impact of increasing numbers of ...
Isabella Vacaflores, Elise Stephenson
wiley   +1 more source

The Missing Link of Jewish European Ancestry: Contrasting the Rhineland and the Khazarian Hypotheses [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The question of Jewish ancestry has been the subject of controversy for over two centuries and has yet to be resolved. The "Rhineland Hypothesis" proposes that Eastern European Jews emerged from a small group of German Jews who migrated eastward and ...
Alexander   +48 more
core   +2 more sources

Why did Putin invade Ukraine? A theory of degenerate autocracy

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Many dictatorships end up with a series of disastrous decisions such as Hitler's attack on the Soviet Union or Saddam Hussein's aggression against Kuwait. Even if a certain policy choice is not ultimately fatal for the regime, such as Mao's Big Leap Forward or the Pol Pot's collectivization drive, they typically involve both a miscalculation ...
Georgy Egorov, Konstantin Sonin
wiley   +1 more source

Fecal Steroids as Tracers of Human Population and Waste Management Practices at the Ancient Maya City of Ucanal, Guatemala

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Geochemical data compiled from dried sediments from three water reservoirs at the ancient Maya city of Ucanal, Petén, Guatemala, reveal low to undetectable fecal biomarker concentrations. These low concentrations may be the result of the aerobic decay of sterols combined with well‐managed waste disposal practices.
Jean D. Tremblay   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Kognitywna rama epicka w psalmach : studium przypadku polskich przekładów psalmu 137 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The main aim of this article is an attempt to rede ne the genre of Psalm 137 with the notion of the epic cognitive framework of the Psalms. Analysis of the prevailing aesthetic value (PAV) and co- gnitive frameworks in Compositional Slots Analysis (CSA ...
Płuciennik, Jarosław
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