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From:Pakistan Journal of Women's Studies: Alam-e-Niswan (Vol. 20, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed6 April 2013 Nepal's women's commission has condemned an attack in the remote west of the country on an elderly woman accused of witchcraft. The 60-year-old woman was stripped naked and had her head shaved. She was...
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From:Feminist Studies (Vol. 33, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIN 1872, TWO ENGLISH "ladies" visited Biscay, in the north of Spain. When they attempted to go for a walk down the central streets of the city unaccompanied, they were disappointed to discover that it was impossible. In...
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From:Journal of Women's History (Vol. 17, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAccording to medieval common law, assault against a pregnant woman causing miscarriage after the first trimester was homicide. Some scholars have argued, however, that in practice English jurors refused to acknowledge...
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From:Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics (Vol. 44, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMethodology: Literature Review and medico-legal commentary. Results: Fatal one-punch assaults have been reported extensively in the media. This article provides a commentary on recent policy developments and legislative...
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From:Mental Health Practice (Vol. 12, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedNHS officials have taken the rare step of bringing a private prosecution against a violent patient to ensure that he can be released only with Home Office approval. The NHS Security Management Service (SMS) and...
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From:The FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin (Vol. 69, Issue 3)While off duty at his home, Officer Blame Kennard of the Willard, Missouri, Police Department encountered one of his neighbors who had been brutally stabbed. After learning that the suspect was still in his neighbor's...
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From:Corrections Caselaw Quarterly (Issue 25)U.S. District Court PRISONER ON PRISONER ASSAULT Gulett v. Haines, 229 F.Supp.2d 806 (S.D.Ohio 2002). A pretrial detainee brought an action against a sheriff, corrections officer, and a jail inmate asserting...
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From:Corrections Caselaw Quarterly (Issue 27)U.S. Appeals Court PRISONER ON PRISONER ASSAULT USE OF FORCE Marquez v. Gutierrez, 322 F.3d 689 (9th Cir. 2003). A state prison inmate brought a [section] 1983 action alleging that an officer's act of shooting...
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From:Canadian Journal of Sociology (Vol. 22, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedToronto: Centre of Criminology, University of Toronto, 1995. I agreed to review Wife Assault and the Canadian Criminal Justice System, partly because of a long standing interest in violence toward women and partly...
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From:The Quill (Vol. 88, Issue 9)Russian troops detained and beat an Associated Press reporter during a sweep of the Chechen capital of Grozny on Sept. 5. Ruslan Musayev, an ethnic Chechen and an AP reporter, was shopping in the central marketplace...
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From:Nursing Economics (Vol. 26, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed* Researchers sought to estimate the costs of different types of conflict and containment in the United Kingdom using events from 136 adult acute inpatient psychiatric wards in the United Kingdom and unit costs from a...
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From:Psychiatric Times (Vol. 24, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedByline: John Kennedy, MD, Scott Bresler, PhD, Anthony Whitaker, MD, JD, and Brian Masterson, MD Psychiatrists who work in inpatient units are faced with daily decisions about predicting which patients will be...
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From:Corrections Caselaw Quarterly (Issue 33)U.S. District Court PRISONER ON PRISONER ASSAULT Thompson v. Spears, 336 F.Supp.2d 1224 (S.D.Fla. 2004). A prisoner brought an action against a county and a jail official, alleging deliberate indifference to his...
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From:TrialRODOLFO Rivera, 34, and his sister left a family gathering after police were called to the scene when other invitees became loud and belligerent. While the two were walking home, they were confronted by police officer...
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From:Corrections Caselaw Quarterly (Issue 35)U.S. District Court EXCESSIVE FORCE Calhoun v. Thomas, 360 F.Supp.2d 1264 (M.D.Ala. 2005). A detainee brought a [section] 1983 action against a sheriff and deputy sheriff in their individual capacities, raising...
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From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 52, Issue 18)Byline: ERIN STROUT A student at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, upset about a failing grade, has been accused of stabbing one of his professors. Nikhil Dhar pleaded not guilty in Cambridge District...
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From:Corrections Caselaw Quarterly (Issue 34)U.S. Appeals Court PRISONER ON PRISONER ASSAULT SUPERVISION Velez v. Johnson, 395 F.3d 732 (7th Cir. 2005). A county jail detainee brought a [section] 1983 action against a county correctional officer, alleging...
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From:Mental Health Practice (Vol. 9, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedA 15-fold increase in the number of prosecutions against people who have physically assaulted NHS staff has been highlighted by the Department of Health. During 2004-2005 there were 759 prosecutions, compared to 51...
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From:Trial (Vol. 40, Issue 5)If a doctor informs a patient about certain risks of an operation but not others, the patient can later sue for all the injuries caused by the surgery--including those she was warned about and willing to risk. So...