This paper investigates a problem of 'state dependency'. People who have been unemployed in the past are much more likely than others to become unemployed in the future. But is it unemployment itself that causes future unemployment or is there something else, some measured or unmeasured form of heterogeneity, in individual characteristics or environmental circumstances, that causes both the pas...

bankruptcy and tort; two apparently distinct branches of law, but, in fact, some technical and theoretical issues arise from their interaction. these include, among others, the boundaries between personal rights of the victim to damages, exclusively allocated to the bankrupt, and the financial damages , which belong to the creditors ; the problems resulting from the chronological order of the b...

The limits of inter-agency understandings risk in the context intimate partner violence are well documented. Informed by Hester’s (2011) ‘three planet’ analogy and using empirical data one police force area south England, this paper offers an exploration intra-agency operations, focusing on assessment practices. Exploring policing lens victim-survivor journey together, findings highlight operat...

Using a critical race theory (CRT) framework, this paper analyses Black and mixed- people’s experiences of reporting crime. It is based on qualitative interviews with 20 participants. The analysis finds that the process becoming (un)victim mediated through intersection gender masculinity, class migrant status. Ultimately, mixed-race men are ‘ideal offender’ rather than victim’ (Christie, 1986)....

EEcient instruction and data caches are extremely important for achieving good performance from modern high performance processors. Conventional cache architectures exploit locality, but do so rather blindly. By forcing all references through a single structure, the cache's eeectiveness on many references is reduced. This paper presents a selective caching scheme for improving cache performance...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Over the last decade there has been increased attention to the association between bullying involvement (as a victim, perpetrator, or bully-victim) and suicidal ideation/behaviors. We conducted a meta-analysis to estimate the association between bullying involvement and suicidal ideation and behaviors. METHODS We searched multiple online databases and reviewed refere...

The Online Romance Scam is a very successful scam which causes considerable financial and emotional damage to its victims. It is based on building a relationship which establishes a deep trust that causes victims to voluntarily transfer funds to the scammer. The aim of this research is to explore online dating scams as a type of e-Living which initially creates happiness for the victim in a vir...