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No mortal thing
Two young men -Jago and Marcantonio - both studying business and finance: Jago is a kid from a rough part of London who has worked hard to get a job in a bank and is now on a fast-track secondment to the Berlin office. Marcantonio is one of the new generation in the Ndrangheta crime families from Calabria, Southern Italy. He is in Germany to learn how to channel their illicit millions towards legitimate businesses all over Europe. When Jago witnesses Marcantonio commit a vicious assault and the police seem uninterested, the Englisman refuses to let the matter drop. But by pursuing the gangster to his grandfather's mountain lair, Jago is stepping into the middle of a delicate surveillance operation, which sets alarm bells ringing in Rome, London and Berlin. It also leads him to Consolata, a young woman who sees in Jago the chance to turn her non-violent protest campaign against the crime families into something altogether more lethal ... NO MORTAL THING is novel of relentless power and mounting suspense, a brilliant portrayal of organised crime in Europe and the under-resourced men and women who fight it.
Crimes of assault on electronic programmes in Palestinian legislation
The development and great spread of information technology and communication devices and the increase in reliability of the Internet have led to its widespread use in the daily life of Palestinian citizens and thus the emergence of many related electronic crimes. This study revolves around talking about the crimes of assaulting electronic programs in Palestinian legislation, which are represented by obstructing or disrupting access to electronic services, devices, programs, or electronic information of all kinds. The object of protection in the crime of assaulting electronic devices and the electronic network is the programs that are configured or accessories to computers and networks, in addition to stored electronic data and information, as well as the services they provide, and researchers have followed the descriptive and analytical approach in studying these crimes by referring to the provisions of the Decree Law No. 10 of 2018 regarding electronic crimes, which was approved by the Palestinian government to limit the spread of these crimes, and trying to extract, analyze, and discuss the will of the Palestinian legislator with regard to protection It provided legal protection for electronic programs and an attempt to mix the technical side with the legal side, noting that the Palestinian legislator tried to provide legal protection for electronic programs based on the user’s right to access his electronic device and to use this program in a legitimate manner, and that obstructing or disrupting access to electronic devices, the electronic network, and the accessory programs constitutes a violation of this right.
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Campus Sexual Assault
Sexual assault is a pervasive problem on university and college campuses in the United States that has garnered growing national attention, particularly in the past year. This is the first study to systematically review and synthesize prevalence findings from studies on campus sexual assault (CSA) published since 2000 (n = 34). The range of prevalence findings for specific forms of sexual victimization on college campuses (i.e., forcible rape, unwanted sexual contact, incapacitated rape, sexual coercion, and studies’ broad definitions of CSA/rape) is provided, and methodological strengths and limitations in the empirical body of research on CSA are discussed. Prevalence findings, research design, methodology, sampling techniques, and measures, including the forms of sexual victimization measured, are presented and evaluated across studies. Findings suggest that unwanted sexual contact appears to be most prevalent on college campuses, including sexual coercion, followed by incapacitated rape, and completed or attempted forcible rape. Additionally, several studies measured broad constructs of sexual assault that typically include combined forms of college-based sexual victimization (i.e., forcible completed or attempted rape, unwanted sexual contact, and/or sexual coercion). Extensive variability exists within findings for each type of sexual victimization measured, including those that broadly measure sexual assault, which is largely explained by differences in sampling strategies and overall study designs as well as measures of sexual assault used in studies. Implications for findings and recommendations for future research on the prevalence of college-based sexual victimization are provided.
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Seven and a half tons of steel
\"Following the events of September 11, 2001, the governor of New York gave the Navy a steel beam that was once inside one of the World Trade Towers. The beam was driven from New York to a foundry in Louisiana. Metal workers heated the beam to a high, high temperature. Chippers and grinders, painters and polishers worked on the beam for months. And then, seven and a half tons of steel, which had once been a beam in the World Trade Center, became a navy ship's bow\"--Amazon.com.
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COVID-19 and social distancing measures in Queensland, Australia, are associated with short-term decreases in recorded violent crime
Objectives
The objective of this study is to test whether recorded rates of violent crime declined in the context of social distancing regulations in Queensland, Australia.
Methods
ARIMA modeling was used to compute 6-month-ahead forecasts of rates for common assault, serious assault, sexual offenses, and breaches of domestic violence orders. These forecasts (and their 95% confidence intervals) are compared to the observed data for March and April 2020.
Results
By the end of April, 2020, rates of common, serious, and sexual assault had declined to their lowest level in a number of years. For serious assault and sexual assault, the decline was beyond statistical expectations. The rate at which domestic violence orders were breached remained unchanged.
Conclusions
Social distancing regulations are temporally correlated with reductions in some violent crimes. Social distancing is likely to have significantly limited interpersonal interaction, especially in locations and at times when violence is usually prevalent.
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The Elizas : a novel
\"When debut novelist Eliza Fontaine is found at the bottom of a hotel pool, her family at first assumes that it's just another failed suicide attempt. But Eliza swears she was pushed, and her rescuer is the only witness. Desperate to find out who attacked her, Eliza takes it upon herself to investigate. But as the publication date for her novel draws closer, Eliza finds more questions than answers. Like why are her editor, agent, and family mixing up events from her novel with events from her life? Her novel is completely fictional, isn't it?\"-- Provided by publisher.
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