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France criminalises clients of prostitution [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
On April 6th, the French parliament voted to criminalise clients of prostitution [1]. Following in the footsteps of countries such as Sweden, Norway, Iceland, and Canada, France is the fifth country in the world to introduce a demand-side ban on ...
St.Denny, Emily
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One‐Sidedness and the Inferior Function in Coriolanus and Timon of Athens

open access: yesJournal of Analytical Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract For both Jung and Shakespeare, one‐sidedness is the fundamental tragic trait. Jung proposed that as an individual develops, they inevitably associate their identity with certain modes of perception and interaction, and that this leads to psychological polarization.
Sofie Qwarnström
wiley   +1 more source

Trauma and Substance Abuse Among Women in Prostitution: Implications for a Specialized Diversion Program

open access: yesJournal of Forensic Social Work, 2011
This study was undertaken to inform the implementation of a specialized prostitution diversion program to help women quit prostitution and avoid criminal prosecution.
Shelly Wiechelt, Corey Shdaimah
doaj   +1 more source

Street Prostitution Zones and Crime [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This paper studies the effects of introducing legal street prostitution zones on both registered and perceived crime. We exploit a unique setting in the Netherlands where legal street prostitution zones were opened in nine cities under different ...
Bisschop, Paul   +2 more
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Visual Satire Under German Censorship: The Card Game Pharo in Johann Heinrich Ramberg's Illustrations and in Contemporary Descriptions

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines image–text relations in German illustrations of gambling around 1800, specifically focusing on the card game Pharo and the artist Johann Heinrich Ramberg. It shows Ramberg's technique of reuse and variation as well as the degree of satire in the designs and their accompanying descriptive or fictional texts.
Waltraud Maierhofer
wiley   +1 more source

U.S./European Summit on Missing & Exploited Children [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
In October 2005, representatives from 20 countries, the United Nations, European-Union institutions, and the Council of Europe participated in the first-ever U.S./European Summit on Missing and Exploited Children.

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When property becomes rent

open access: yesAmerican Ethnologist, EarlyView.
Abstract For millions of working‐class Mexicans, property has turned into rent. This transformation has fundamentally dislocated social reproduction in Mexico by eroding households’ ability to envision themselves as holders of patrimony and as lasting social formations. To understand how and to what effect property turned into rent, we must look to the
Inés Escobar González
wiley   +1 more source

Macau as Method: Recombinant Urbanism in Post‐Socialist China

open access: yesAsia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In ‘Asia as Method’, Chen Kuan‐Hsing argues for the value of an indigenous inter‐Asian approach to analysing the effects of European imperialism on the countries and citizens of Asia. This article mobilises both Chen's inter‐Asian referencing strategy and the city‐state of Macau to explore Macau's role in China's engagements with global ...
Tim Simpson
wiley   +1 more source

Racial bias in criminal sentencing: Historical evidence from Chinese railway workers in British Columbia

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, EarlyView.
Abstract Do discriminatory attitudes held in the public influence public institutions? We study this question within the context of the criminal justice system of historical British Columbia (BC). During the late 1870s and early 1880s, an influx of Chinese immigrant workers employed in the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) was the catalyst
Kris Inwood, Ian Keay, Blair Long
wiley   +1 more source

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