Criminal Justice and Behavior, Ahead of Print. The timing of an investigation after an officer-involved shooting (OIS) is influenced by conflicting forces. The public demands
expedited resolution, but police officers are provided several protections that can delay investigations of their actions. [...]
Laws, Vol. 10, Pages 63: Sports, Transgender Rights and the Bodily Politics of Cisgender Supremacy Laws doi: 10.3390/laws10030063 Authors: Elizabeth A. Sharrow Between
2020 and 2021, one hundred and ten bills in state legislatures across the United States suggested banning the participation of transgender athletes on sports teams [...]
Laws, Vol. 10, Pages 62: Retouchée au Féminin: The Gendered Nature of the French Law Mandating Labeling of Digitally Modified Images Laws doi: 10.3390/laws10030062 Authors:
Rachel F. Rodgers Katherine Laveway [...]
European Journal of Criminology, Ahead of Print. Areas high in collective efficacy – where residents know and trust one another and are willing to intervene to solve neighbourhood
problems – tend to experience less crime. Policing is thought to be one antecedent to collective efficacy, but little empirical research has explored this question. [...]
Criminal Justice and Behavior, Ahead of Print. The Ontario Domestic Assault Risk Assessment (ODARA) is an actuarial risk assessment tool for intimate partner violence (IPV)
recidivism. Despite its international use, there is no published validation of the ODARA’s predictive accuracy in a U.S. [...]
AbstractWithin the UK, Scotland offers a unique case study of ‘Votes-at-16’ in practice. Research provided evidence on the immediate effects of voting age reform on young
people’s engagement with politics, but little is known about how young people experienced being allowed to vote from the age of 16 years. [...]
AbstractResearch into the possible consequences of lowering the voting age to 16 used to be rather speculative in nature, as there were few countries that had implemented earlier
enfranchisement. This has changed over the past decade. We now have a range of countries in different locations, mostly in Europe and South America, where 16- and [...]
AbstractWith votes at 16 implemented for local and devolved assembly elections in Scotland and Wales, the debate on the issue continues amongst politicians in England and Northern
Ireland. Testing arguments that are often made in that debate, we analyse two survey experiments and show that framing on extending rights prompts higher support, [...]
This series of articles examines aspects of the increasingly resonant and polarised debates across the UK about the lowering of the voting age to 16 years. The previous UK-wide
extension of the age of franchise, from 21 to 18 years in 1969, attracted little partisanship or attention (Loughran et al., 2021). [...]
AbstractThe debate over reform to the voting age at Westminster elections is dominated by a concept of young people as deficient and disengaged citizens. In the contemporary
context of young civic action, new approaches to the civic can support a regeneration of the vote in young people’s expanded political toolbox. [...]
