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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Decriminalization"”.
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Gauging Longevity: Canada’s Post-Decriminalization Abortion Rights Movement, 1988-2018
… abortion rights movement has evolved in the post-decriminalization era, this dissertation draws on qualitative fieldwork conducted over five years (2013-18) through deep immersion in the field. The dataset includes: 40 semi-structured interviews with pro-choice adherents across three provincial …
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Essays on hospital-level economic outcomes : evidence from psychedelic decriminalization and health system data breaches.
… Essay 1 exploits staggered city-wide psychedelic decriminalization (2019-2022) using difference-in-differences methods, finding a 25 percent rise—about 33 extra cases per month—in psychosis-related emergency visits. Essay 2 links those policies to inpatient trajectories: proportional-hazards …
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The criminalization of tattooing in Oklahoma : an application of Clegg's circuits of power
… involved in the processes of criminalization and decriminalization giving particular attention to issues of power. Through the analysis of primary and secondary historical data, the articulation of the systems of power integrates Clegg (1997) and Turk (1969) to interpret the chronology of the …
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Towards Health Centered Drug Policy: An Analysis of Past and Developing Drug Policy
… its associated risk of death through overdosing. Decriminalization has the potential to restore justice to communities decimated by traditional U.S. drug policy and could shift public focus towards medical approaches to treating addiction, however, inertia in drug policy persists, influenced by …
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Examining Drug Policy in Portugal and Greece
… Greece, analyzing why Portugal's comprehensive decriminalization model has been more successful than Greece's partial approach. Since 2001, Portugal has pioneered a drug policy that decriminalizes all drugs for personal use while investing in harm reduction services, rehabilitation, and social …
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The Economics of Crime: Exploring the Impact of Psychedelics, Gun Liability Insurance, and Zero-Bail Policies on Crime
… of three distinct policy reforms: psychedelic decriminalization, firearm liability mandates, and zero cash bail, on crime outcomes in California. It aims to inform evidence-based policymaking by leveraging quasi-experimental methods to identify the causal impact of each intervention. A growing …
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Public sexuality: a contemporary history of gay images and identity
… Orleans, the murder of Matthew Shepard, and the decriminalization of sodomy. At each site, I examine the event, the various identities presented, and the tensions and erasures that result from the specific identity performances. In conclusion, I envision a political movement which is inclusive of …
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From seed to sale
… policies on the substance, the voice for the decriminalization of recreational cannabis increased. Now, as 12 states already legalized recreational cannabis and more than 30 states permit medical cannabis, the cannabis industry presents not only core business opportunities but also an arena …
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O uso medicinal do canabidiol e seus meandros burocrático-legal
… of 1988. The present work seeks to analyze the decriminalization and legalization of Cannabis for medical purposes in Brazil, considering the benefits brought to the treatment of patients with neurological diseases. Therefore, the right to health as a guarantee to all Brazilian citizens was …
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Worlds in Collision: The Gay Debate in New Zealand 1960-86
… fifteen months of debate that occurred prior to decriminalization of male homosexual activity in July 1986 is studied at depth. The thesis highlights the intensity of feeling that the debate engendered. This was the result of the clash of fundamentally different worldviews and value systems. …
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"WIsh I would be normal": LSD and Homosexuality at Hollywood Hospital, 1955-1973
… archives), Canadian parliamentary debates on the decriminalization of homosexuality, and contemporary parental advice literature support the sociological theory that various authorities competed to define homosexuality as deviance in mid-twentieth-century Canada. A close examination of Hollywood …
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Healing Architecture: Equine Healing Centre
… the need to minimize stigmatization and decriminalization of mental health. King Salman Park, a new development project, aims to provide a beautiful park for the Saudi community, by linking it to a variety of roads to make it accessible to everyone. By using a small portion of this park, …
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Crossing the Line: Censorship, Borders, and the Queer Poetics of Disclosure in English-Canadian Writing, 1967-2000
… era’s divergent nationalisms and the imminent decriminalization of homosexuality in 1969. Symons re-maps Montreal in text and illustration and produces metafictional boundaries that challenge subjective definitions of obscenity. Chapter Two considers Contract with the World (1980) by the …
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Efficacy of Administrative Monetary Penalties in Compelling Compliance with Federal Agri-Food Statutes
… regulatory prosecutions. The Part also describes decriminalization, and the developments in Europe, the United States, Australia and Canada that are were ostensibly aimed at decriminalizing less serious regulatory offences. Before analyzing the data, the thesis describes the role of field …
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Female sex workers'experiences of the sexual reproductive health(SRH)services on the emerging voices project in Chipata district in Zambia
… now by FSW’s inform policy on the importance of decriminalization of sex work in Zambia to ultimately promote good health seeking behaviors and reduce the HIV prevalence among the FSW and the general population. These study findings are of particular importance to refocusing of HIV/AIDS …
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Female sex workers'experiences of the sexual reproductive health(SRH)services on the emerging voices project in Chipata district in Zambia
… now by FSW’s inform policy on the importance of decriminalization of sex work in Zambia to ultimately promote good health seeking behaviors and reduce the HIV prevalence among the FSW and the general population. These study findings are of particular importance to refocusing of HIV/AIDS …
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Bankruptcy, guns or campaigns : explaining armed organizations' post-war trajectories
… consolidating peace, reconciliation, decriminalization, and transitions to democracy.
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A Legal Framework for the Assessment of a Voluntary Request for Medical Assistance in Dying
… voluntary. Chapter two explores the historical decriminalization of assisted suicide and how voluntariness has been considered in the relevant jurisprudence, including Rodriguez v British Columbia (Attorney General) and Carter v Canada (Attorney General). Chapter three expands my scope of review …
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