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An exponential improvement of numerical weather prediction (NWP) models was observed during the last decade (Lynch, 2008). Civil Protection (CP) systems exploited Meteo services in order to redeploy their actions towards the prediction and prevention of events rather than towards an exclusively response-oriented mechanism1. Nevertheless, experience tells us that NWP models, even if assisted by ...

Critiques of ‘fantasy citizenship’ include calls to migrantize the citizen and denationalize citizenship migration studies. In response, this essay proposes ‘precarious legal status trajectories (PLSTs) as method’, with a focus on work status. This approach captures changes in sociolegal trajectories, including illegalization, builds ‘thicker’ trajectories. The refers effort, time, money, other...

Drug and alcohol abusers frequently have legal difficulties, and the legal system often provides negative reinforcement for substance abuse treatment. In contrast, contingency management (CM) treatments utilize positive reinforcement procedures to improve patient outcomes. This study evaluated whether substance-abusing patients with legal problems at treatment entry had differential outcomes, i...

8 M a r c h 2 0 0 3 The Supreme Court did not “invent” legal abortion, much less abortion itself, when it handed down its historic Roe v. Wade decision in 1973. Abortion, both legal and illegal, had long been part of life in America. Indeed, the legal status of abortion has passed through several distinct phases in American history. Generally permitted at the nation’s founding and for several d...

Few social issues in the U.S. are as contentious as the legal status of induced abortion. Thirty years after the Supreme Court declared state laws restricting abortion unconstitutional in Roe v. Wade, 93 S.Ct. 705, poll results suggest that the U.S. population is almost evenly split over whether the next nominee to the Supreme Court should support or oppose legal abortion in most or all context...

Recognizing that established relationships enhance understanding and therefore improve clinical intuition and inference, the authors examined clinical and legal characteristics of a legally and clinically heterogeneous population of maximum security forensic hospital patients (n = 380). Several findings serve to substantiate outcomes of previous studies of subgroups of offenders. Some new relat...