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Showing 1 to 20 of 165 for “"the legal system"”.
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Drug Use, Mental Health and Encounters with the Legal System in Missoula County
It has been well documented in the criminological literature that drug use and crime co-occur (Eilliot, Huizinga and Ageton 1985, Goldstein 1985). Data from the Missoula Arrestee Drug Use Monitoring Study were used to investigate the relationships between drug use, treatment experiences, encounters …
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Drug Use, Mental Health and Encounters with the Legal System in Missoula County
It has been well documented in the criminological literature that drug use and crime co-occur (Eilliot, Huizinga and Ageton 1985, Goldstein 1985). Data from the Missoula Arrestee Drug Use Monitoring Study were used to investigate the relationships between drug use, treatment experiences, encounters …
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How the legal system in Iceland works and what needs to be changed according to sexual violence victims
The aim of this study was to see how well the Icelandic legal system works according to victims of sexual abuse. Limited studies have been conducted about what it is that victims fear which can prevent them from pressing charges against their abuser. The research was conducted on Stígamót´s clients …
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“Sanctioned by the legal system”: Women’s experiences of child contact in the context of intimate partner violence and abuse
Purpose: This thesis explores women’s experiences of the child contact process where intimate partner violence and abuse (IPVA) was a factor. The thesis builds on knowledge within England and Wales, as there is currently limited research exploring how survivors feel about the process and outcomes …
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Kent Kiehl’s Search for the Criminal Brain America’s self-proclaimed “psychopath whisperer” says he can predict criminality in incarcerated people. Is the legal system buying it?
Since the 19th century, researchers have attempted to uncover the biological roots of criminality. The process has been both scientifically dubious and ethically fraught. While biological theories of criminal behavior faded after World War II, they arose again in the 1990s and early 2000s, when new …
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Friedrich Carl von Savigny and the Politics of Legal Pluralism in Germany, ca. 1810-1847
This dissertation investigates the relationship between law and the state in early nineteenth-century Germany, traced through the lens of one jurist’s engagement with legal reform: the scholar and Prussian statesman Friedrich Carl von Savigny (1779-1861). Savigny is known primarily as an innovator …
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Marriage and Family Therapy and the Law: Discovering Systemic Common Ground
… regarding couples and families are made by the legal system. However, this system’s adversarial nature often results in relational losses for clients, even when one “wins” a case. Some believe a solution may exist in legally-minded marriage and family therapists, who, as experts in family …
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The limitations of law pertaining to incest cases: observations of the confines inherent in the current criminal jurisdiction of the County Court of Victoria, which may limit justice for the victims of incest, and the resultant equivocal footing of social policy in this area
The crime of incest is rendered invisible in the 1990's under the all-embracing label of "child abuse", where the public eye is alerted to grave cases of physical abuse, by a media hungry for sensationalism. Likewise, incest is effaced amid the current outrage over the deviant outsider - typically …
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Law and Artificial Intelligence: A Systems-Theoretical Analysis
Law and technology regularly conflict. The reasons for this are several and complex. Some conflicts are trivial and straightforwardly resolvable. Others, such as the creation of artificial minds, are not. History indicates that when law and technology conflict; both systems can adapt—often over …
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The Inefficiency of the Judiciary and Alternative Forms of Social Control: A Case Study of Rental Contracts in Brazil
The main purpose of this study is to analyze how institutions, the legal system among them, affect the economic performance of a country. Specifically, a malfunctioning legal system creates uncertainties that might hamper the completion of new transactions, particularly those involving previously …
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The legal response to men's violence against women (ex-)partners : narrative representation of women's experiences and discourse analysis of lawyer's talk : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology at Massey University, Turitea Campus, Palmerston North, New Zealand
Men's violence towards women within the context of intimate relationships is a complex and serious social problem. Particularly problematic are its prevalence and its extensive deleterious effects on women and children's health and psychological wellbeing. The present research was interested in New …
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Undocuactivism: Latina/o undocuactivists fighting for change in the U.S.
"Given the increasing anti-immigrant rhetoric, sentiment, and policy advocacy, it is important to understand the development, maintenance, and power of undocuactivism, which is the mobilization of undocumented immigrants. Through in-depth interviews, physical and virtual fieldwork, archival online …
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A Social Ontology of the Wage
This thesis draws on the theory and method of social ontology to explore why labour law struggles to provide for wage security and clarity of employment status today. It starts by exploring at a conceptual level the relationship between law and capitalism, before moving on to engage more …
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The Influence of Legal and Regulatory Context on Perceptions of Hydraulic Fracturing Risks
… previously unreachable pockets of natural gas. Others, however, claim that it poses a significant threat to human health and the environment, and have strongly advocated for it to be banned. Amid this fierce debate over fracking’s safety, residents living in communities affected by it have had to …
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Silence and Invisibility: A Feminist Case Study of Domestic Violence in the Lives of Five Korean-American Women
Findings reveal that the influences of socialization of patriarchy within the United States and Korea produce numerous manifestations of the internalization of male domination such that domestic violence was sustained and perpetuated throughout the experiences of domestic violence in the women's …
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Kind world, cruel world, friends and heroes: A generic analysis of television police drama and situation comedy, 1982-1992
… narrative clearly recur in television programs. They do so within a number of recognizable generic patterns which not only create narrative coherence but also advocate particular principles of social organization and practice within the context of the program--i.e., views of how social …
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Latinas Lived Experience of IPV Amidst the COVID-19 Global Pandemic. Los Platos Sucios se Lavan en Casa
<p>Background: The largest minority group in the United States is represented by Latinos, with Latinas comprising a significant portion of this demographic. Latinas will account for a quarter of the population living in the U.S. by 2050. Studies have indicated Latinas are at a higher risk of …
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Eterodirezione e responsabilità
… its origins, company law has placed itself in the middle of the traditional pair of ‘enterprise’ and ‘liability’, making it possible to exercise business activity while enjoying the benefit of limited liability. At the same time, this opportunity has always fostered the search for stratagems to …
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The taxation and regulatory characteristics of Offshore Banking Centres (OBC's) with special reference to United Kingdom, Singapore, Philippines, Ireland, Cyprus and Australia
The term "offshore banking" has many meanings. The most common definition involves an institution that is situated in a country which deals with foreign currencies and with non-residents. The following characteristics may have a substantial bearing on the success of an OBC : ocation/time zone, …
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