Naval Blockade and the Russia–Ukraine Conflict

Netherlands International Law Review - The Russia–Ukraine conflict is also being fought in the maritime dimension. Regarding methods of warfare, of particular note has been the possible...     

Is Income Inequality Related to Tolerance for Inequality?

Data from the International Social Survey Programme that includes individual respondents from 34 countries surveyed at four different times show that populations of countries with more actual income inequality also tolerate more income inequality, even after controlling for numerous individual- and country-level variables. Comparisons over time show that actual income inequality predicts later tolerance for income inequality, within 3–4 years, but earlier tolerance for income inequality does not predict later actual income inequality. These analyses therefore indicate that people adapt how much income inequality they tolerate to actual inequality. They contribute to a long-standing theoretical and empirical discussion about whether material structures influence or result from social norms.     

Research Note – Strain-Based Work-Family Conflict and its Relationship with Perceptions of Distributive and Procedural Justice among Correctional Staff

Fairness and justice are valued concepts throughout the entire criminal justice system, and they do not resonate any less with employees in the field of corrections. Distributive and procedural justice, two dimensions of organizational justice, were postulated to have salient outcomes for correctional staff. While a growing number of studies have examined the effects of distributive and procedural justice, their effects have not been fully explored. Strain-based work-family conflict occurs when conflict at work spills over and has a detrimental effect on home life. Hierarchical regression analysis of two different surveys of correctional staff, one at a private correctional facility for juveniles run on behalf of the state and another at an adult public state-run correctional facility, indicated that both distributive justice and procedural justice had negative relationships with strain-based work-family conflict.     

Test–Retest Reliability of the Revised Conflict Tactics Scales (CTS2)

The Revised Conflict Tactics Scales (CTS2) are widely used to measure intimate partner aggression. Various aspects of the CTS2 and its subscales have been examined, e.g. factor structure, internal consistency, and validity, but little or no evidence exists regarding the stability of the self-report of aggression on the CTS2 This study examines the stability of reports of aggression against a partner on the CTS2 among 82 men court-mandated to a batterer intervention program. At both testing times men reported on aggression occurring in the year prior to beginning treatment. Using variety scores, stability of report was strong for psychological aggression (r = 0.69), physical assault (r = 0.76), injury (r = 0.70), and negotiation (r = 0.60), but weaker for sexual coercion (r = 0.30). Implications for the use of the CTS2 in court-mandated populations are discussed.

Industry–University Research Centers: A Multivariate Analysis of Member Retention

Although a growing literature documents the benefits of industry–university research centers, most centers experience a significant amount of turnover among their industrial members. In order to gain a better understanding of this phenomenon, the current study attempts to identify factors that predict member renewal (DV). Questionnaire data were collected from industrial respondents (N=249) participating in 39 centers funded by the NSF IUCRC program. Structural, member benefits and administrative process variables were used to predict the dependent variable. Logistic regression analyses identified three significant predictors: professional networking benefits, research relevance and administrative operations. Implications of these findings for public policy, cooperative research management and future research are discussed.     

Beyond 9/11: Terrorism and Media in a Mid-term Period View (1998–2005)

By drawing upon the first results of an analysis carried out on the 1998–2005 period, this work tries to reconstruct the trends in terrorist attacks and their media coverage in seven international daily newspapers. Also the dynamics of media over/under-representation are investigated, as well as the existence of differentiated coverage related to the geopolitical distance/proximity of the country object of attack. Special attention is paid to an empirical analysis of the Iraqi case. The work opens with a short methodological discussion on the issue of terrorism measurement, from its operational definition to the choice of the database on which to carry out the analyses.     

Forensic Sciences Research 征稿

正Forensic Sciences Research[CN 31-2116/D,ISSN 2096-1790(Print),ISSN 2471-1411(Online)],是中华人民共和国司法部主管、司法部司法鉴定科学技术研究所主办的官方英文杂志,2015年正式建刊,是目前国内唯一一本面向国际的以法医学专业为主的法庭科学领域的英文季刊。Forensic Sciences Research目前已与泰勒-弗朗西斯出版集团(TaylorFrancis Group)合作,将采取完全开放获取(Open Access,OA)的办刊模式,所有刊载内容均可免费浏览下载。该刊旨在以最快的速度传播司法鉴定领域的前     

Forensic Sciences Research征稿

正Forensic Sciences Research[CN 31-2116/D,ISSN 2096-1790(Print),ISSN 2471-1411(Online)],是中华人民共和国司法部主管、司法部司法鉴定科学技术研究所主办的官方英文杂志,2015年正式建刊,是目前国内唯一一本面向国际的以法医学专业为主的法庭科学领域的英文季刊。Forensic Sciences Research目前已与泰勒-弗朗西斯出版集团(TaylorFrancis Group)合作,将采取完全开放获取(Open Access,OA)的办刊模式,所有刊载内容均可免费浏览下载。该刊旨在以最快的速度传播司法鉴定领域的前     

Forensic Sciences Research征稿

正Forensic Sciences Research[CN 31-2116/D,ISSN 2096-1790(Print),ISSN 2471-1411(Online)],是中华人民共和国司法部主管、司法部司法鉴定科学技术研究所主办的官方英文杂志,2015年正式建刊,是目前国内唯一一本面向国际的以法医学专业为主的法庭科学领域的英文季刊。Forensic Sciences Research目前已与泰勒-弗朗西斯出版集团(TaylorFrancis Group)合作,将采取完全开放获取(Open Access,OA)的办刊模式,所有刊     

Forensic Sciences Research征稿

正Forensic Sciences Research[CN 31-2116/D,ISSN 2096-1790(Print),ISSN 2471-1411(Online)],是中华人民共和国司法部主管、司法部司法鉴定科学技术研究所主办的官方英文杂志,2015年正式建刊,是目前国内唯一一本面向国际的以法医学专业为主的法庭科学领域的英文季刊。Foren-     

Human–Wildlife Conflict among the Pastoral Communities of Southern Rangelands of Ethiopia: The Case of Yabello Protected Area

The objective of this study was to assess human–wildlife's conflict in the Yabello district protected area, Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia. The data were collected by using questionnaires, interviews, field observations, and secondary document analysis. The questionnaire was distributed to thirty households within and around the protected area. In addition, interviews were conducted with select local community representatives and office personnel.

Uncontrolled management of grazing land, encroachment on the local communities, living settlement patterns near and within the protected area, lack of boundary demarcation and zoning, and increasing demand of the products found in the protected area are major causes of human–wildlife conflict in the Yabello protected area. Loss of livestock contributes to disturbances in the livelihood of local households, which in turn have a major impact on human–wildlife conflict in the local communities. Habitat disturbance and migration of wildlife are the serious byproducts of human–wildlife conflict. Predatory wildlife includes hyenas, foxes, and leopards. Crop-raiding animals are zebras, wild pigs, gerenuk, and monkeys, all of which also are negatively affected by human–wildlife conflict.     

Gustav Shpet and the Semiotics of ‘Living Discourse’

Semioticians traditionally honor Russian linguistics of the early 20th century, and study Jakobson, Vinogradov, Vinokur or the early Trubetzkoy. They do, however, seldom consider Russian philosophers of the same period. Gustav Shpet is an important representative of Russian philosophers in discussion with Hegel, Neo-Kantian thinkers and contemporaries in Russia and abroad, among them Edmund Husserl, originator of transcendental phenomenology. Shpet introduced Husserl’s phenomenology in Russia and expanded those ideas in his 1914 Appearance and Sense. A triangle “Hegel—Husserl—semiotics” emerged where Shpet emphasized the concept of discourse in phenomenology: a philosophical challenge to modern semiotics. Significant portions of the material in this paper were originally prepared for publication in a chapter contributed to the volume A History of Russian Philosophy, 1830–1930, ed. Gary Hamburg and Randall Poole (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming), and are used here in a different context with the kind permission of that publisher.

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Counterintuitive Effects of Individualistic Diversity Discourse on “Generation Bataclan”

Social Justice Research - Coverage by international broadcasters and other media of the terrorist attacks in Paris in November 2015 made extensive use of mainstream diversity discourse to describe...     

Beyond the census. Reconstructing Dutch women's labour market participation in agriculture in the Netherlands,ca. 1830–1910

Many historians have pointed out for various countries that nineteenth-century national censuses do not accurately reflect women's economic activity. This was no different for the Dutch national censuses. In this article, we argue that under-recording was especially severe in agriculture, and that this problem increased towards the end of the century. The rise in under-recording was partly due to an increased irregularity of women's work on farms, but it also reflected changing living standards and ideologies, in which work was increasingly defined as undesirable for women. In relative terms, agriculture did become less important to men and women alike because of mechanization and industrialization. Nevertheless, agriculture continued to employ many women, especially married women and daughters working on their husbands' and fathers' farms. By offering additional source material and methods for estimating women's labour force participation in agriculture on a regional level, such as relating their occupational status to their husbands', and estimating the number of days worked, we aim to offer an enhanced methodology for gauging the work of women in agriculture, which may be applied to future research.     

Beyond the Visible Pattern: Historical Particularities,Development, and Age at First Marriage in Transylvania, 1850–1914

The present study focused on age at first marriage in Transylvania between 1850 and 1914, a time of both social-economic change and resilient historically entrenched particularities. Based on data extracted from the Historical Population Database of Transylvania we constructed an extensive sample from settlements with a broad range of social-economic characteristics, which allowed for a comparative view into the influence of various factors on marriage timing. We examined in this sense both individual-level co-variates, such as denominational affiliation, migration background, and social-occupational status, as well as broader factors, such as the development level attained by certain settlements and the time frame. We found that the area level of development measured according to a heuristic index was in many cases more decisive than individual characteristics in shaping individuals’ constraints and opportunities on the marriage market. More significantly, the analysis showed that the ways in which the development level worked to transform marriage timing for both men and women could be explained by historically entrenched differences and specificities. At the same time, these patterns in age at first marriage, given by factors such as denomination, might be the result of other largely still invisible factors, for which the variables used are merely imperfect proxies.