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Risk of in-flight sexual assaults: time to wake up?
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Cristian Deliv and Gerard Thomas Flaherty
Journal of Travel Medicine, Volume 27, Issue 4, May 2020, taaa026, https://doi.org/10.1093/jtm/taaa026
Published: 27 February 2020
... Publication Model ( https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model ) Travel sexual assaults flights To the Editor-in-Chief: International tourist arrivals are projected to reach 1.8 billion by 2030, with much of this growth fuelled by an increase...
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Changes in alcohol-related harm in Sweden after increasing alcohol import quotas and a Danish tax decrease—an interrupted time-series analysis for 2000–2007
Nina-Katri J Gustafsson and Mats R Ramstedt
International Journal of Epidemiology, Volume 40, Issue 2, April 2011, Pages 432–440, https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyq153
Published: 14 September 2010
... kinds of registers. Methods Interrupted time-series analysis was performed with monthly data on cases of hospitalization due to acute alcohol poisoning, number of reported violent assaults and drunk driving for the years 2000–07 in southern Sweden using the northern parts of Sweden as a control...
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Workplace violence: a survey of paediatric residents
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Karen Judy and Jill Veselik
Occupational Medicine, Volume 59, Issue 7, October 2009, Pages 472–475, https://doi.org/10.1093/occmed/kqp068
Published: 21 May 2009
... several limitations. The survey was voluntary with no incentive to complete the questionnaire; this may explain the low response rate. Our data are based on resident recall of events, so possibly under-represents the true incidence of verbal and physical assaults. We did not define verbal abuse...
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In re the Legal System
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Lynn S. Chancer
Published: 01 November 2005
...This chapter explores the strategies of legal actors and the perceptions of high profile cases in the U.S. and analyzes the consequences of legal cases becoming conflated with social causes in provoking assaults. It focuses on several cases including the Central Park jogger, the murder of Yusef...
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Published: 15 January 2005
...This chapter discusses the trials for sexual assault and the embodied racialization of Hispanos. The chapter introduces a broader discussion of elite Hispanos, who were a critical segment of New Mexico's racial order. Because of the presence and the political and economic power of elite Hispanos...
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Are Sugar and Spice Really Evolving into Snips and Snails and Puppy-Dog Tails?
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Jane B. Sprott and Anthony N. Doob
Published: 01 December 2009
... assaults. In Canada, the rates of “all offenses,” “serious violence,” and “minor assaults” declined for boys but were stable for girls. Braithwaite John youth crime data versus self reported offending youth justice processing Beattie K Biron L Calverley D Canter R Chesney Lind M Doob A N Fergusson...
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Moral Outrage: Postwar Protest against Police Violence and Sexual Assault
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Laurie B. Green
Published: 28 May 2007
...This chapter examines the black community's moral outrage against police brutality involving sexual assaults in postwar Memphis and its major ramifications for the politics of racial justice. It discusses how police sexual assaults of black women galvanized African Americans and put race, manhood...
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Dying Young in the United States
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Michael D. Stein and Sandro Galea
Published: 23 April 2020
... 1 to 19. In that same time frame, American teens age 15 to 19 were 82 times likelier to die from gun-related homicide. As such, US policymakers need to focus on preventing child mortality by preventing the largest contributors to this challenge: perinatal deaths, car accidents, and firearm assaults...
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How Guns Matter
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Philip J. Cook and Jens Ludwig
Published: 14 February 2002
...This chapter discusses that the greater use of guns makes the problem of violence worse in America because guns are more lethal than the other weapons typically used in assaults and suicide attempts. It implies that separating guns from violence saves lives. Chapman Mark Crime reduction methods...
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Willingness-to-Pay to Reduce Gun Violence
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Philip J. Cook and Jens Ludwig
Published: 14 February 2002
...To obtain a more comprehensive measure of costs, both subjective and tangible, this chapter evaluates a “contingent-valuation” survey that asks respondents what they would pay to reduce gun assaults. Results suggest that elimination of gun use in assault would be worth at least 80 billion dollars...
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Published: 03 December 2020
... violence in the occupied territories. It explains that only certain crimes on the broad spectrum of sexual forms of violence were followed up during the German occupation, and that many victims did not dare to report the assaults on their own. The chapter identifies the various authorities responsible...
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Sexual Assaults
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Eleanor Laws and Patricia Lees
Published: 27 December 2007
...0 27 12 2007 Prior to 31.12.1956, the law did not differentiate as between the gender of the person assaulted. The first section of this chapter therefore applies equally to assaults upon males and females. Thereafter, for facts falling within the period 1.1.1957 to 30.4.2004, the chapter...
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Published: 07 November 1991
... an eternal element thereof” (Will 6). The radical empiricist seeks to preserve this crudity from the assaults of “professionalism and pedantry” with their monistic, absolutist doctrines intolerant of what James calls the “ever not quite” (qtd. Perry 2: 630; Will 6...
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Published: 26 June 2008
.... There are threatening characters in the area, he says, who are liable to rob or wreck business premises such as the shop in which he is standing. For a regular payment, in cash, the organization which the man represents will protect the shop against such assaults. immediately proposition represents assaults...
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Defending Asbestos: Twenty-First-Century Perspectives
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Jock McCulloch and Geoffrey Tweedale
Published: 24 July 2008
...0 24 07 2008 In 1973, Matt Swetonic addressed the Asbestos Textile Institute in Arlington, Virginia. Despite the industry’s travails, he was his usual eloquent self, and he posed his audience a question: why had asbestos been singled out as the prime target for so many assaults? His answer: ‘[I...
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Offences Against the Person
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Keith Smith
Published: 25 February 2010
...This chapter discusses historical developments in the law of offences against the person. These are considered in three distinct groupings: (1) non-fatal assaults and wounding; (2) sexual offences; and (3) unlawful homicide. Jessel Sir G XI agents XI assault and wounding XIII Church of England...
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Striking a New Bargain
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Thomas O. McGarity
Published: 19 March 2013
...This chapter focuses on the progressive scholars and activists who have made impressive gains in creating narratives and carrying their message to the people with considerable financial help from progressive funders. Like the assaults on federal regulation, the assaults on the civil justice system...
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Black Lives in the Record
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William A. Blair
Published: 21 September 2021
... and sexual assaults. The chapter argues that southern legal institutions, such as the courts and police, conducted an insurgency against change, encouraging violence to maintain white supremacy even before the Klan emerged. Allums Cato De Forest John William Freedmen’s Bureau coercion underreporting...
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Published: 08 February 2001
..., abuse, assaults, and ill treatment at the hands of the RUC, who have also shot dead many suspects and are alleged to have colluded with Loyalist paramilitaries. Division arises because policing is a fundamental attribute of statehood—the police are ‘the locus of ultimate coercive power’ and inevitably...
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High-Profile Crimes and American Culture
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Lynn S. Chancer
Published: 01 November 2005
...This chapter examines the impact of high profile cases on American culture. It analyzes whether provoking assaults bode a new and important form of politics and suggests that the provoking assaults of the 1980s and 1990s produced common effects at the same time as resulting in varied ramifications...
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