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Calling All the Statesmen: The (not) Mubarak Trial [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
I read the decision that exonerated ex-Minister of Interior of Egypt and his assistants from the charge of giving orders to kill demonstrators textually.
Abu-Odeh, Lama
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Barriers to help-seeking for mental health issues in young rural males

open access: yes
In New Zealand, poor mental health is a salient problem. We experience high suicide rates, and this rate increases when the lens of being young, rural, and male are applied.
Kathryn Wright
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Lethality, Public Carry, and Adequate Alternatives [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This Article explores the relationship between lethality and the right to bear arms, and considers how that relationship might be shaped by the availability of non-lethal alternative weapons.
Blocher, Joseph, Miller, Darrell A. H.
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Crime scripting: A systematic review [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version.More than two decades after the publication of Cornish’s seminal work about the script-theoretic approach to crime analysis, this article examines how the concept has been ...
Borrion, Hervé, DehghanNiri, Hashem
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Social stigma and executive compensation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
We document that executives working at firms perceived negatively in light of social norms, such as tobacco, gambling and alcohol, earn a significant compensation premium. The premium compensates for personal costs executives bear due to their employer’s
Akerlof   +113 more
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Addressing Gun Violence in the United States

open access: yes, 2018
When compared with other high-income countries, gun violence is clearly a problem in the United States. Although homicide appears to be a more serious issue compared with other countries, suicide causes many more deaths per year than homicide does and ...
House, Sarah
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The Ottoman Gunpowder Empire and the Composite Bow

open access: yes, 2010
The Ottoman Empire is known today as a major Gunpowder Empire, famous for its prevalent use of this staple of modern warfare as early as the sixteenth century.
Lanan, Nathan
core  

Trust the People: The Case against Gun Control [PDF]

open access: yes, 1988
Few public policy debates have been as dominated by emotion and misinformation as the one on gun control. Perhaps this debate is so highly charged because it involves such fundamental issues. The calls for more gun restrictions or for bans on some or all
David Kopel
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Wherefore Art Thou Guidelines? An Empirical Study of White-Collar Criminal Sentencing and How the Gall Decision Effectively Eliminated the Sentencing Guidelines [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
[Excerpt] “Until the passage of the U.S. Federal Sentencing Guidelines in 1984, federal judges had relatively wide discretion in sentencing federal offenders up to the statutory maximum.
Morin, S. Patrick
core   +1 more source

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