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American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Firefighters face an array of stressors due to the demands of their occupation, leading to a high prevalence of mental health challenges. Social prescribing represents a novel approach to healthcare that emphasizes a holistic view of health and wellbeing.
Janice Ikeda +2 more
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Private Security in Guatemala:The Pathway to Its Proliferation [PDF]
It has become commonplace to explain the proliferation of private security services as causally determined by crime rates and institutional weakness. By contrast, this paper ar-gues that another explanatory factor needs to be emphasized, especially for ...
Otto Argueta
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Private Military and Security Companies in the United States - Evolution, Legal Regulation and Perspectives [PDF]
, 2021 The United States is currently the most important subject of international law regulating and using the services of private military and security companies nationwide This type of companies as well as mercenary as a negative phenomenon specific to ...
Zacon Corina, Cauia Alexandr
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Scientia Militaria, 2011 This publication contributes to a growing body of literature on a phenomenon, theprivatization of the means of coercion, that manifests on the international strategiclandscape.
Francois Vreÿ
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Following the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety, the Australian Government set a target for no‐one under 65 years of age to be living in residential aged care (RAC) by 2025. The numbers of young people in residential aged care (YPIRAC) have significantly declined since the start of the targets.
Elroy Dearn +4 more
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Quantifying the Sites of Government, Commercial, and Personal Systems‐Perpetrated Financial Abuse
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study explores the institutional systems through which post‐separation financial abuse is perpetrated. While existing measures seek to quantify the harms experienced by women post‐separation, this study draws on financial, welfare and legal service casefiles to identify where such harms occur. Drawing on 76 de‐identified Victorian service
Kay Cook +3 more
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The business of security and the transformation of the state [PDF]
The field of security policy seems to have undergone dramatic changes in the last decades. Under the broad umbrella of a turn to security governance, one can observe trends of an internationalization and privatization of security.
Deitelhoff, Nicole
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Perceptions of private security a case study of students from Serbia and North Macedonia [PDF]
NBP: Nauka, bezbednost, policija, 2019 In the last two decades of the 21st century, the significant development of the private security industry has taken place in Serbia and North Macedonia. However, the private security industry in these two countries did not reach professional standards as
Janković Bojan +2 more
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The United Nations and Private Security Companies: Responsibility in Conflict
Deusto Journal of Human Rights, 2017 The international community is undergoing a transformation in the way that security is managed. The growth of the private security industry in this regard has not been equally matched with adequate national or international responses. This lack of action
Steven Martin
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‘Shelter is a Dignity’: Rental Racism, Stress and Housing (In)justice
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Australia's private rental sector is in crisis, and culturally and racially minoritised renters face compounded harms through both covert and everyday direct forms of rental racism. Drawing on five community‐based focus groups in Melbourne (n = 37), the paper explores how racism manifests across the rental pathway and how it structures the ...
Erika Martino +3 more
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