The NBA season starts tonight, and much has happened since the end of the NBA Finals. The Eastern Conference has loaded up on top, with the Knicks and the 76ers making big moves over the summer to compete with
The NCVS data support this conjecture: Black victims of violent crimes are much less likely than White victims to call the police when the MSA has a higher percentage of Black populations than when the MSA has a lower percentage of Black populations. Second, we did not find the same ...
This response extends well beyond the predominant approach that places much of the onus on individuals to ‘gamble responsibly’. The implication is that regulators, industry, parents and other stakeholders should rethink current approaches to reducing youth gambling harm and listen to and act on the...
b: ‘Would you like to see more or less government spending in each area. Remember that if you say ‘much more’, it might require a tax increase to pay for it.’(1) old age pensions, (2) health, (3) the police and law enforcement, (4) education, (5) the military and defence...
Much work in the field of Chinese celebrity studies understandably privileges "tradi- tional" sectors like film, music and sports [7]. However, since the mid-late 2010s, a large cohort of content creators, influencers, streamers and performers has emerged to join film actors, athletes and ...
In later years she has also been fortunate enough to work with the Pulse team in Norway. All of this has inspired her to take the leap and go on exchange. “I very much look forward to spending the next year in Johannesburg! I think the Pulse program is a good opportunity to learn ...
Johnston & Pieczka, 2018), the public relations literature moved much further to analyze the role played by communication: “public interest is communicative, i.e. it comes into being through acts of communication that allow for the idea to circulate, to be used, to be argued and challenged...
These regimes, rather than resorting to mass violence and overt forms of repression, try to conceal their repressive actions and/or motivations as much as they can.9 They instead use more "covert"10 or "smart"11 repression when possible. The latter is defined as the "use of tactics by ...
Youth as 'agitators' that need to be controlled The con- struction of youth as agents of conflict has achieved dominance over the years. Alfy (2016), Rahman (2014) and Urdal (2004) link the increasing population of young people referred to as the 'youth bulge' to increased con- ...
Much has changed since the 1980s. Welfare got a major overhaul in the 1990s. The number of poor Americans dropped sharply in that decade, only to partially rise again, particularly during the deep recession that began in 2007.But many attitudes have held steady, the new poll found, ...