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The risk of negative feedback loops in some weighted measures of crime harm
Analyses of crime based upon aggregate counts of different crime types have restricted value, because they count all crime types equally irrespective of the harm caused. In response to this problem, a series of weighted measures of crime harm have been proposed. In this short contribution, we contend that the use of some crime harm metrics to inform police deployment practices has the potential to reinforce ethnic disparities in the criminal justice system through the creation of unintended negative feedback loops. We focus our analysis on the Cambridge Crime Harm Index and the Office for National Statistics (ONS) Crime Severity Score, the preeminent crime harm indexes in England and Wales. We conclude that the ONS Crime Severity Score, which is based on mean sentencing outcomes,
does
give cause for concern in some contexts. There is currently no evidence that the Cambridge Crime Harm Index, based on sentencing guidelines, presents the same problems.
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Batman, the Dark Knight detective
\"In these stories that immediately followed BATMAN: YEAR ONE, the Caped Crusader learns what kind of compromises he must make to be the hero that Gotham City truly needs. As he battles against the deadly Reaper, the city's first vigilante hero, Batman must work with the man who murdered his parents and a cadre of mob bosses to protect Gotham City.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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NIPPING CRIME IN THE BUD? THE USE OF ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOUR INTERVENTIONS WITH YOUNG PEOPLE IN ENGLAND AND WALES
This article presents findings from a study of the use of antisocial behaviour (ASB) warning letters, Acceptable Behaviour Contracts (ABCs) and Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (ASBOs) with 3,481 young people from fourlarge metropolitan areas in England, which challenge dominant narratives about their use and impact. The findings unsettle prevailing beliefs concerning the targeted use of ASB interventions to tackle low-level incivilities and the timing of their use within a young person's deviant trajectory. They also contest the logical sequencing of behaviour regulation strategies by demonstrating the haphazard deployment of ASB sanctions within complex webs of prevention, ASB and youth justice interventions. The article concludes by considenng the findings alongside recent youth justice trends in England and Wales.
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Even Superdoc can’t fix patients’ homes
After six months of scans, lung function tests, and blood tests, I received an urgent request from the registrar to perform a home visit to exclude chronic carbon monoxide poisoning.
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Small-rotative fixed-target serial synchrotron crystallography (SR-FT-SSX) for molecular crystals
The increasing availability of ultrabright Light Sources is facilitating the study of smaller crystals at faster timescales but with an increased risk of severe X-ray damage, leading to developments in multi-crystal methods such as serial crystallography (SX). SX studies on crystals with small unit cells are challenging as very few reflections are recorded in a single data image, making it difficult to determine the orientation matrix for each crystal and thus preventing the combination of the data from all crystals for structure solution. We herein present a Small-Rotative Fixed-Target Serial Synchrotron Crystallography (SR-FT-SSX) methodology, in which rotation of the serial target through a small diffraction angle
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φ
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at each crystal delivers high-quality data, facilitating ab initio unit cell determination and atomic-scale structure solution. The method is benchmarked using microcrystals of the small-molecule photoswitch sodium nitroprusside dihydrate, obtaining complete data to
d
min
= 0.6 Å by combining just 66 partial datasets selected against rigorous quality criteria.
Multi-crystal methods such as serial crystallography can provide a complete 3D structure of the target material before radiation damage becomes significant, but the methods are challenging for small molecule crystals with small unit cells, where very few reflections are recorded in a single data image. Here, the authors present a small-rotative fixed-target serial synchrotron crystallography (SR-FT-SSX) methodology, in which rotation of the serial target through a small diffraction angle
(
φ
)
at each crystal delivers high-quality data, facilitating ab initio unit cell determination and atomic-scale structure solution.
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Social bodies and social justice
This paper identifies and engages with the social bodies emerging by virtue of the social turn in the life sciences and recent embodied approaches to social justice. Across these diverse domains, bodies are being narrated as shaped by and dependent on their environments. To explore this potentially important and productive convergence, we bring Martha Fineman's vulnerability theory into conversation with neuroscience and environmental epigenetics. We foreground significant intersecting concerns and argue that vulnerability theory – and other embodied models of social justice – is strengthened by taking embodiment seriously, including attending to the social turn in the life sciences. This can enhance the potential traction of these progressive theories. These in turn provide an alternative theoretical framework to the neoliberal lens through which neuroscience and epigenetics have hitherto been translated into policy and practice. We nevertheless acknowledge the potential limitations and dangers of the current biopolitical landscape.
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Combined use of antidepressants and NSAIDs: NNT for intracranial haemorrhage
[...]UK GPs should be informed that if the Korean findings can be extrapolated, among 3000 men starting an NSAID while on an antidepressant (or vice versa), one will have an avoidable intracranial haemorrhage in the first 30 days.
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Wellbeing and Society
The objectives of this paper are twofold. First, it reviews the empirical evidence showing the existence of linkage between wellbeing and possible co-benefits, investigating in particular the positive effect that happiness and life satisfaction can have on health, social outcomes, employment, education and environmental behaviours. Second, it presents the valuation methods that have been proposed in the literature to place a monetary value on these outcomes. With wellbeing having become more and more relevant for individuals and policy makers, the full understanding of the co-benefits of wellbeing is central for the design and development of wellbeing interventions. As a consequence, the evaluation of the co-benefits of wellbeing is of crucial importance for the appropriate allocation of resources towards such strategies.
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