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Dirty Hands, Clean Conscience? The CIA Inspector General’s Investigation of “Enhanced Interrogation Techniques” in the War on Terror and the Torture Debate [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The War on Terror has generated fierce debate on torture as a means of thwarting terrorist threats. The argument is polarized between those who take a utilitarian position and those who seek to uphold the absolute prohibition on torture.
Blakeley, Ruth, Ruth Blakeley
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Five Decades of Research on Rape Myths and Victim Interpretation

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Over the past 5 decades of social science research, scholars have examined false narratives and beliefs associated with rape and sexual assault (often called “rape myths”). This scoping review employs an innovative technique to sample and describe a large cohort of scholarly articles that investigate sexual assault victim interpretation and ...
Elizabeth Trudeau, Ruth Carmi
wiley   +1 more source

Western State Terrorism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
States use terror to achieve political ends, by employing violence to ensure compliance and to coerce populations away from dissent. Moreover, despite popular understandings of terrorism as a ‘strategy of the weak’ used against liberal democracies, an ...
Blakeley, Ruth, Raphael, Sam
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The Tree of Life Synagogue Attack: A Terrorist Radicalization Assessment Protocol‐18 Examination of Pre‐Attack Warnings and Post‐Attack Contagion and Copycat Effects

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This is a retrospective case study of an antisemitic lone actor terrorist who completed the deadliest attack against the Jewish community in American history. The analysis through the lens of the Terrorist Radicalization Assessment Protocol (TRAP‐18) finds that 72% of the warning indicators were present, including four proximal warning ...
Molly Amman, Julia Kupper, J. Reid Meloy
wiley   +1 more source

Media metrics : how Arab and Western media construct success and failure in the ‘Global War on Terror’

open access: yes, 2015
The media has played an important role in the ‘Global War on Terror’, and has received significant scholarly attention as a result. However, the way in which different media represent and construct notions of success and failure has been less well ...
Marsden, Sarah Victoria
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“Evil is Real and Attitude is Everything”: Applying Shattered Assumptions Theory to Worldview Changes Following Wrongful Conviction

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Wrongful convictions continue to occur at high rates. Research has revealed that negative posttraumatic cognitive changes are a risk factor for the development and maintenance of posttraumatic stress disorder, yet little research has examined whether exonerees experience posttraumatic cognitive changes, such as changes to their worldview. Thus,
Kathryn A. Thomas   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nine‐Year Follow‐Up After M‐TEER for Secondary Mitral Regurgitation in a Patient With Cardiogenic Shock

open access: yesCatheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Transcatheter edge‐to‐edge repair (TEER) has become an established therapeutic option for patients with severe secondary mitral regurgitation (SMR). While randomized trials and registry data have reported outcomes up to 5 years, longer follow‐up data remain scarce.
Tobias Reithmayer   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rethinking Climate Change on the Role of Human Power Generation, Alternative Perspectives, Potential Solutions, and a Plea for Action

open access: yesChemie Ingenieur Technik, EarlyView.
All energy matters Let us broaden the discussion on solutions to climate change. Greenhouse gases have upset the delicate equilibrium of the Earth's energy balance. Consequently, all sources of heat affect the temperature of the Earth. Although the amount of additional heat generated by humans is a fraction of that produced by the sun, it is generated ...
Martin Bertau   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Disordered Eating Behaviors Among U.S. Children With Neuropsychiatric Conditions: A Nationally Representative Study

open access: yesInternational Journal of Eating Disorders, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective This study documented associations between parent‐reported disordered eating behaviors and co‐occurring anxiety, depression, behavioral/conduct problems, and attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) among U.S. children. Method Data were obtained from the combined 2022–2023 National Survey of Children's Health.
Myriam Casseus
wiley   +1 more source

Decentralization as a disincentive for transnational terror? System stability versus government efficiency: an empirical test [PDF]

open access: yes
Using panel data for a maximum of 109 countries over the years 1976-2000, we empirically analyze the impact of decentralization on the occurrence of transnational terror.
Axel Dreher, Justina Fischer
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