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Defining and measuring homicide rates for birth cohorts: Methodological and theoretical challenges and solutions

open access: yesCriminology, EarlyView.
Abstract Social scientists have long been interested in understanding how age, period, and cohort effects shape long‐term homicide trends. Yet fundamental measurement challenges remain pervasive in estimating age‐specific homicide rates for birth cohorts.
Jason Robey, Matt Vogel
wiley   +1 more source

Noise in judicial decision‐making: A research note

open access: yesCriminology, EarlyView.
Abstract Researchers suspect large unsystematic variation (noise) in criminal sentencing, but past attempts to quantify it have used short hypothetical vignettes administered in low‐stakes settings to small, heterogeneous samples of judges. Such vignettes are deficient in detail and ecological validity.
Andrzej Uhl, Justin T. Pickett
wiley   +1 more source

Can prisons move people into better jobs? A look at correctional vocational training programs and sectoral employment outcomes

open access: yesCriminology, EarlyView.
Abstract Three‐quarters of US prisons offer vocational training programs, which aim to place trainees in middle‐skills jobs in specific occupational sectors post‐release. These middle‐skills jobs may more effectively reduce recidivism than the jobs that normally characterize the labor market experience of the formerly incarcerated, yet whether ...
Britte van Tiem
wiley   +1 more source

Socioeconomic impacts of adolescent pregnancy on education and future employment in Batticaloa District, Sri Lanka. [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Public Health
Senaratne P   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

‘I, Me, Myself’: Selfhood and Melancholy in the Journals of Gertrude Savile (1697–1758)

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the journals of Gertrude Savile from 1727 in light of recent scholarship on early modern and eighteenth‐century melancholy. The concept had myriad associations with medicine, physiology, the imagination, and feeling, but questions remain about how melancholy during this period was considered by those outside the narrow ...
Daniel Beaumont
wiley   +1 more source

Post-Therapy Trajectories Following Brief Systemic Couple Therapy for Parents. [PDF]

open access: yesFam Process
Darwiche J   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

CEO's Early‐life Experience of Disasters and Corporate Environmental Performance

open access: yesAbacus, EarlyView.
We investigate the nexus between the early‐life disaster experiences of chief executive officers (CEOs) and their firms’ environmental performance metrics. We hypothesize that first‐hand experience of the adversities of natural disasters in the formative years of a CEO can catalyze a transformation in their environmental cognizance and perspective ...
Shushu Liao   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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