In recent years, state and federal legislative initiatives have heavily emphasized punitive laws to combat sexual crime. These statutes include indefinite civil commitment, which is the ultimate infringement on sexual offenders' civil liberties. Many of these committed offenders have repeatedly offended against prepubescent children (pedophiles), and many have committed nonconsensual sexual off...

Over the past decade, autonomous agents have become an increasingly mature technology to collect data over the internet. Intended originally for commercial purposes, e.g. comparing prices on internet auction sides on behalf of their owners, submitting offers or forming strategic alliances to benefit from bulk discounts, the same attributes that make them suitable in the commercial sector have r...

The article considers the history of origin and formation town hall architecture as first building local governments. Over past century, most buildings have lost their historical significance. This process is due to improvement government in Europe. In addition, reason for this was development autonomy city civil liberties. also influenced by democratization life management procedures urban com...

Ongoing global protests against police violence and racism were heightened in 2020 after the deaths of Breana Taylor George Floyd, whose made headlines worldwide raised awareness Black Lives Matter movement, which targets structural people USA abroad. There are many documented links between policing health-related outcomes, including but not limited to fatal injuries that increase population-sp...

The author would like to thank Keith LaFoe for his excellent assistance in the elaboration of the figures in this paper. 2 Introduction In recent years, numerous scholarly analysts have sought to determine the trajectory of the third democratic wave in Latin America. 1 The onset of the third wave in the region is widely dated as 1978, when civilian leadership was elected in the Dominican Republ...

This report presents findings from a nationwide replication of Stouffer's classic study of attitudes toward civil liberties. Central to Stouffer's interpretation of the origins of tolerance is his idea that exposure to social and cultural diversity encourages an appreciation of the importance of civil liberties for democracy. Trends in the 1950s suggested that Americans would increasingly be ex...

The Commission on Judicial Action of the APA was fonned by then President Alfred Freedman at my urging, based on the following considerations: First, there had been a recent proliferation of important legal decisions affecting the provision of mental health care. Those decisions reHected no input from organized psychiatry; indeed, they could not, since no such input had been offered. The tone a...