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Abstract Written as a letter to my 28‐year‐old self, this paper explores the development of my engagement with cultural complexes. On August 18, 2009, I finished a chapter applying cultural complexes to a history of China, complete with elaborate charts that seemed to confirm a process by which cultural complexes are formed, and how China’s then recent
Kevin Lu
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Special competencies for psychological assessment of torture survivors [PDF]
In spite of the absolute prohibition against torture in international law, this grave human rights abuse is still practiced systematically and with impunity in the majority of countries around the world. Mental health professionals can play a positive role in the fight against torture and impunity, by developing competencies to assess the ...
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The Impact of Heavy Menstrual Bleeding on Quality of Life: A Mixed‐Methods Survey Study
ABSTRACT Objective To examine the physical, psychological, social, and functional impact of heavy menstrual bleeding (HMB) using a mixed‐methods approach. Design Mixed‐methods online survey. Population A UK‐wide sample of adults assigned female at birth with lived experience of HMB.
Michalina Drejza +8 more
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Firearm sexual homicide offenders: Criminal careers, psychopathology, and offense conduct
Abstract Most homicides are firearm‐perpetrated, but in sexual homicide, offenders are more likely to utilize personal weapons (e.g., hands and feet), contact weapons (e.g., blunt object), or edged weapons (e.g., knife) to comport with their fantasy life, motivational states, and psychopathology.
Matt DeLisi +3 more
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Determinants of case outcomes in Rwanda's postgenocide gacaca courts
Abstract Transitional justice trials have become a central mechanism for addressing mass violence and human rights violations, yet little is known about the determinants of case outcomes within these courts—particularly in domestic contexts. This study examines Rwanda's gacaca courts, a localized transitional justice system that tried people suspected ...
Hollie Nyseth Nzitatira +2 more
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The Fire-Raisers: Bentham and Torture
Jeremy Bentham has frequently been regarded as the father of the ‘ticking bomb’ argument in defence of interrogational torture. The first part of this article draws attention to a transformation in his theory of torture between about 1777 and 1804.
Jeremy Davies
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The complex care of a torture survivor in the United States: The case of “Joshua” [PDF]
Introduction: Torture is an assault on the physical and mental health of an individual, impacting the lives of survivors and their families.The survivor’s interpersonal relationships, social life, and vocational functioning may be affected, and spiritual
Kelly, Caitrin M. +6 more
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The Right to Stand and the Democratic Value of Elections
Constellations, EarlyView.
Annabelle Lever
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Layered abandonment: The moral interpretation of suffering in extreme confinement
Abstract Loss and rejection are central to prison life, yet how they crystallize into a more general sense of abandonment remains under‐theorized. Drawing on 64 interviews with men held in prolonged self‐isolation or serving indeterminate forvaring sentences in Denmark, we conceptualize abandonment not simply as hardship but as suffering plus ...
Frederik Rom Taxhjelm, Julie Laursen
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Book review by Pau Pérez-Sales on Victoria Canning's book "Torture and torturous violence.
Pérez-Sales, Pau
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