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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
wiley   +1 more source

"In Weapons We Trust?" Four-culture analysis of factors associated with weapon tolerance in young males. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS One
Palace M   +15 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The synergy of renewable energy consumption, green technology, and environmental quality: Designing sustainable development goals policies

open access: yesNatural Resources Forum, EarlyView.
Abstract Green technology (GT) and the utilization of renewable energy (RE) are widely acknowledged as a catalyst for energy efficiency, economic growth, and a tool for combating environmental degradation. Although various studies have examined the ecological repercussions of these two improvements, they have primarily used traditional pollution ...
Abdullah Emre Caglar   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

A global database on blowguns with links to geography and language. [PDF]

open access: yesEvol Hum Sci
Aguirre-Fernández G   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The hidden discount: Examining racial disparity in the use of suspended sentences

open access: yesCriminology, EarlyView.
Abstract Extant research on criminal sentencing generally concludes that racial/ethnic disparity is concentrated in the “in–out” decision, and that racial differences in sentence lengths are small and inconsistent. However, sentence length analyses rarely focus on the fact that criminal sentences are often partially or fully suspended, creating ...
Kevin Petersen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Addressing sexual violence as a weapon of war: A critical call for action in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. [PDF]

open access: yesInt J Gynaecol Obstet
Akilimali A   +14 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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