"Stand your ground" laws : civil rights and public safety implications of the expanded use of deadly force : hearing before the Subcommittee on Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights, Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, first session, Tuesday, October 29, 2013 |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington : , : U.S. Government Publishing Office, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (v, 384 pages) : illustrations |
Collana | S. hrg. |
Soggetto topico |
Self-defense (Law) - United States
Civil rights - United States Homicide - United States Firearms ownership - United States Racial profiling in law enforcement - United States Discrimination in criminal justice administration - United States Crime prevention - Citizen participation |
Soggetto genere / forma | Legislative hearings. |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Altri titoli varianti | "Stand your ground" laws |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910703764503321 |
Washington : , : U.S. Government Publishing Office, , 2015 | ||
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Crime on the border [[electronic resource] ] : immigration and homicide in urban communities / / Matthew T. Lee |
Autore | Lee Matthew T |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (170 p.) |
Disciplina | 364.2/5 |
Collana | The new Americans |
Soggetto topico |
Crime - United States - Sociological aspects
Homicide - United States Ethnic groups - United States Noncitizen criminals - United States - Public opinion Emigration and immigration - Social aspects |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-280-36136-0
9786610361366 1-59332-084-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: immigration as a criminological concern -- Immigration and crime: what do we know and how do we know it? -- Studying immigration and homicide -- The independent effects of immigration on homicide -- Geographic patterns and time trends -- Conclusion: immigration and the revitalization of urban communities. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910450218603321 |
Lee Matthew T
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New York, : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2003 | ||
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Crime on the border [[electronic resource] ] : immigration and homicide in urban communities / / Matthew T. Lee |
Autore | Lee Matthew T |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (170 p.) |
Disciplina | 364.2/5 |
Collana | The new Americans |
Soggetto topico |
Crime - United States - Sociological aspects
Homicide - United States Ethnic groups - United States Noncitizen criminals - United States - Public opinion Emigration and immigration - Social aspects |
ISBN |
1-280-36136-0
9786610361366 1-59332-084-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: immigration as a criminological concern -- Immigration and crime: what do we know and how do we know it? -- Studying immigration and homicide -- The independent effects of immigration on homicide -- Geographic patterns and time trends -- Conclusion: immigration and the revitalization of urban communities. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783473803321 |
Lee Matthew T
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New York, : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2003 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Crime on the border : immigration and homicide in urban communities / / Matthew T. Lee |
Autore | Lee Matthew T |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (170 p.) |
Disciplina | 364.2/5 |
Collana | The new Americans |
Soggetto topico |
Crime - United States - Sociological aspects
Homicide - United States Ethnic groups - United States Alien criminals - United States - Public opinion Emigration and immigration - Social aspects |
ISBN |
1-280-36136-0
9786610361366 1-59332-084-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: immigration as a criminological concern -- Immigration and crime: what do we know and how do we know it? -- Studying immigration and homicide -- The independent effects of immigration on homicide -- Geographic patterns and time trends -- Conclusion: immigration and the revitalization of urban communities. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910810917903321 |
Lee Matthew T
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New York, : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2003 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Examining the race effects of stand your ground laws : briefing before the United States Commission on Civil Rights, held in Orlando, FL |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, DC : , : U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, , 2020 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (various pagings) : color illustrations |
Collana | Briefing report |
Soggetto topico |
Self-defense (Law) - United States
Firearms - Law and legislation - United States Crime prevention - United States - Citizen participation Racism - United States Race discrimination - United States Homicide - United States |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Altri titoli varianti | Examining the race effects of stand your ground laws |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910713524003321 |
Washington, DC : , : U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, , 2020 | ||
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Geronticide [[electronic resource] ] : killing the elderly / / Mike Brogden |
Autore | Brogden Michael |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; Philadelphia, : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2001 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (221 p.) |
Disciplina | 364.15/23/0846 |
Soggetto topico |
Age discrimination - United States
Euthanasia - United States Homicide - United States Older people - Abuse of - United States Older people - Crimes against - United States |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-84642-276-0
1-4175-0444-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455700303321 |
Brogden Michael
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London ; ; Philadelphia, : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2001 | ||
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Geronticide [[electronic resource] ] : killing the elderly / / Mike Brogden |
Autore | Brogden Michael |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; Philadelphia, : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2001 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (221 p.) |
Disciplina | 364.15/23/0846 |
Soggetto topico |
Age discrimination - United States
Euthanasia - United States Homicide - United States Older people - Abuse of - United States Older people - Crimes against - United States |
ISBN |
1-84642-276-0
1-4175-0444-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780335503321 |
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London ; ; Philadelphia, : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2001 | ||
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Geronticide : killing the elderly / / Mike Brogden |
Autore | Brogden Michael |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; Philadelphia, : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2001 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (221 p.) |
Disciplina | 364.15/23/0846 |
Soggetto topico |
Age discrimination - United States
Euthanasia - United States Homicide - United States Older people - Abuse of - United States Older people - Crimes against - United States |
ISBN |
1-84642-276-0
1-4175-0444-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Geronticide: Killing the Elderly -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Living too Long? -- Introduction -- The social context of ageing and geronticide -- Is longer life possible? -- Science and increasing the lifespan -- Ageing and decline: Consequences of extending the lifespan -- Outline of the book -- Geronticide and the elderly: Definitions -- 2. Death by Demography and Longevity -- The Problem of Longevity -- Population ageing in Western society -- Non-industrial societies and the demographic time bomb -- The dependency ratio and the social crisis -- Gender and the demography of ageing -- Social class and demography -- Ethnicity and the ageing population -- Demography and a finite food supply -- The social costs of the increasing elderly dependent population -- The cost of care -- Death-hastening by rationing -- Depression and self-killing amongst the elderly -- Limitations to the demographic time bomb thesis -- Responding to the critics -- Continuity in geronticide -- 3. Death by Social Obligation: The Political Economy Thesis -- Political economy: The elderly as non-producers -- Insights from patriarchy and from Marxist studies -- Nostalgia over primitive society -- The hunter-gatherer thesis -- The young-old versus the old-old -- Death-hastening in primitive society -- Ritual demarcation allowing geronticide: Concluding liminal status -- The liminal status passage -- Infanticide and geronticide -- Criticisms of political economy -- 4. Death by Attrition: Modernisation and the Workhouse -- Introduction -- The modernisation process -- Modernisation and social differentiation -- Modernisation and convergence -- Ageist ideology's contribution to death-hastening -- Inequality and uneven exposure to geronticide -- 5. Death by Degrees: Bureaucratisation in Care Institutions -- Introduction: The bureaucratisation of death.
Dying in 'care' -- Making ready for death: the community-institution divide -- Abuse in institutional settings -- Making death 'ordinary' -- Ethnography of elderly death-hastening -- Direct death-hastening: 'Do not resuscitate' -- Regulation and inspection -- Elderly care as a business enterprise: 'Culling sheep or cattle' 46 -- Overview -- 6. Death in Literary Discourse -- Killing the elderly in literature -- Elderly defence against geronticide: Ashliman's collection -- Past to future: Science fiction and geronticide -- Death-hastening in the care and nursing home -- Ageism and the liminal status of the elderly -- Voluntary euthanasia -- Overview -- 7. Death by Choice?: Physician-assisted Suicide and Voluntary Euthanasia -- Introduction -- A brief history of suicide and voluntary euthanasia -- The situation today -- Voluntarism: Ageism, material and cultural pressures -- From physician-assisted suicide to voluntary euthanasia -- Aspects of the debate -- Vagueness of professional controls -- Pain relief ? Or alleviation of psychosocial problems? -- The long-term care alternative -- Patient autonomy versus medical autonomy -- Overview -- 8. Dr Shipman, Social Rights, and Preventing Geronticide -- Who kills the elderly? -- Professionalism and the case of Dr Harold Shipman -- Checking Geronticide -- References -- Subject Index -- Author Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910825583603321 |
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London ; ; Philadelphia, : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2001 | ||
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Homicide |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Washington, D.C.] : , : Office for Victims of Crime, , [2016] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (2 unnumbered pages) : color illustrations |
Soggetto topico |
Homicide - United States
Victims of violent crimes - United States |
Soggetto genere / forma | Statistics. |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Altri titoli varianti | Homicide |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910707799403321 |
[Washington, D.C.] : , : Office for Victims of Crime, , [2016] | ||
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Homicide |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Washington, D.C.] : , : Office for Victims of Crime, , [2010?] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (6 unnumbered panels) |
Collana | OVC Help Series for Crime Victims |
Soggetto topico |
Homicide - United States
Victims of violent crimes - Services for - United States |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Altri titoli varianti | Homicide |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910704242303321 |
[Washington, D.C.] : , : Office for Victims of Crime, , [2010?] | ||
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