The Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014: implications for sex workers and their clients [PDF]
, 2015 © 2015 Taylor & Francis. The Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 introduced new powers to deal with behaviour deemed to be ‘anti-social’. In this paper we consider how the new law could be used against sex workers and their clients and the
Ashworth A. +21 more
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Power laws, Pareto distributions and Zipf's law
, 2005 When the probability of measuring a particular value of some quantity varies inversely as a power of that value, the quantity is said to follow a power law, also known variously as Zipf's law or the Pareto distribution.
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THE RULES OF INTERNATIONAL LAW THAT REGULATE THE USE OF INTERSTATE FORCE
Scientia Militaria, 2012 Just as the most important norms governing the behaviour of individuals are embodied in domestic law, some norms governing the behaviour of states are embodied in "international law.
G. Conradie
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Spatial utilization predicts animal social contact networks are not scale-free [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2017 While heterogeneity in social behaviour has been described in many human contexts it is often assumed to be less common in the animal kingdom even though scale-free networks are observed.
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Compelled to do the right thing [PDF]
, 2012 We use a model of opinion formation to study the consequences of some mechanisms attempting to enforce the right behaviour in a society. We start from a model where the possible choices are not equivalent (such is the case when the agents decide to ...
Abramson, G. +2 more
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Robust study design is as important on the social as it is on the ecological side of applied ecological research [PDF]
, 2014 1. The effective management of natural systems often requires resource users to change their behaviour. This has led to many applied ecologists using research tools developed by social scientists.
Jones, Julia P.G. +3 more
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Neutering Effects on Social Behaviour of Urban Unowned Free-Roaming Domestic Cats
Animals, 2019 Simple Summary The “trap, spay/neuter, and release” programs to manage unowned free-roaming cat populations are diffused worldwide and they are largely advised even in countries where the suppression of unowned cats is enforced by law.
S. Cafazzo, R. Bonanni, E. Natoli
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Social Housing Legal Responses to Crime and Anti-Social Behaviour: Impacts on Vulnerable Families
AHURI Final Report, 2019 This research reviewed social housing tenancies law and policies in five jurisdictions, and national policy principles and frameworks relating to four types of vulnerable people: women affected by domestic violence; children; Indigenous persons; and ...
Chris Martin +3 more
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Farsi giustizia da sé: strategie di sopravvivenza e crisi della legalità
Quaderni di Sociologia, 1993 When achievement of his rights as an individual is neither guaranteed nor possible, the citizen is obliged to adopt measures of self-protection. These assume a non-formai character and can turn into “translegal”, “alegal” or “illegal” behaviour (i.e ...
Emanuele Sgroi
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CONSUMER IN THE THEORY AND ECONOMIC PRACTICE: ECONOMICS – PSYCHOLOGY – LAW
Ekonomia i Prawo, 2006 Aim of the article is to point at institutional implications of the consumer theory originated from various theoretical approaches. Theories being under scrutiny are: neoclassical theory of consumer which is situated in the core of the mainstream ...
Arkadiusz Graczyk
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