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Getting Deterrence Right: Theory, Research, and Policy on the Punishment of Crime
Deterrence has long served as a justification for legal punishment of crime. The logic? Fear of punishment will cause individuals, groups, organizations, and the like to reduce their criminal activity, or, better yet, not to engage in it at al…
Culture, healthcare, and mortality meet
This blog celebrates publication of Facing death across cultures, a book four years in the making, begun as the pandemic first erupted. Inspiration for the book germinated two decades ago, when I was composing music for a documentary about Mitsuo Aoki, wh…
Dominance Through Division: Group-Based Clientelism in Japan
Japan is a democracy, yet electoral competition is utterly dominated by a single party. For sixty-six of the past seventy years, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has controlled Japan’s government. Since its formation in 1955, the LDP h…
Navigating Organizational Control in a New Era of Work
The way we work has undergone a seismic shift over the past decade, with the COVID-19 pandemic acting as the latest catalyst for unprecedented change. Workplaces around the world are now defined by virtual collaboration, hybrid schedules, and algorithmic …
Moving along the First Global Empire
We live now in a time in which more and more people vouch for building up walls and barriers to deter the movement of people as it is seen with suspicion; as if mobility were the cause of all contemporary problems, a harmful activity that would break up s…
Why don’t we see more autistic people in academia?
When I was a little girl, bullied by my peers and misunderstood by my teachers, I couldn’t wait to be a grown-up. I dreamed of my future life as a professor, filling my brain with facts and my shelves with books. In my ivory tower, I would be surrou…
A Religion of Peace and Quiet? Islamic Nonviolence Between Justice and Quietism
What makes ‘a religion of peace’? This rarely-explained and occasionally maligned phrase has become a commonplace in 21st century speechcraft. Puzzlingly, it is rarely applied in a comparatively straightforward descriptive fashion – perh…
A New History of Theatre in France: Qu’est-ce que c’est?
Shuffling past the French Department noticeboard one day in my undergraduate first year, a small ad caught my eye. A week in Paris. All expenses paid. Was I dreaming? The small print, however, confirmed that there’s no such thing as a free dé…
Palladio’s Hybrid: A Renaissance Villa between Country and City
On Wednesday, the 29th of October 1567, the Venetian patrician Francesco Pisani lay mortally ill in his country house in Montagnana, 50 miles southwest of Venice. He summoned his long-time notary, Giovanni Maria Corradin, to draft a codicil to his final w…
The Cambridge Handbook of Digital Evidence in Criminal Investigations
The age of electronic evidence: challenges and the need for cooperation of service providers In today’s digital age, where information and communication technologies have revolutionised how we communicate, store, access, and share information, and w…
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Jurisprudence, European integration, digital governance, and socio-economic rights
The editorial team of the German Law Journal is delighted to present the latest issue—a collection of timely reflections on issues of jurisprudence, European integration, digital governance, and socio-economic rights awaits you.…
A History of Archaeology at Sparta
The Annual of the British School at Athens (ABSA) has long been a preferred repository of research on Sparta. This introduction provides a brief history of research in the region and an account of further developments in archaeological and historical rese…
Aiste Vitkauskaite Awarded Irish Society for Parasitology William C. Campbell Award 2024
My introduction to the fascinating world of parasites and Fasciola was accidental, or rather, a fluke! I met Professor John Dalton, the lead of the Molecular Parasitology Laboratory while working on a drug metabolism and hepatotoxicity project using HepG2…
Conservation for Nature and Wildlife’s Sake: The Effects of (Non-)Anthropocentric Ethical Justifications on Policy Acceptability
Human activities continue to degrade nature and encroach on wildlife’s habitats and undeveloped open areas. Concern for the environment appears to be increasing as indicated by numerous countries signing the international commitments to conserve 30%…
Everything you wanted to know about Monte-Carlo techniques but were afraid to ask…
In recent years, the application of Monte Carlo (MC) techniques in radiotherapy has garnered significant attention due to their unparalleled accuracy in dose calculation and treatment planning.…
Where are you going Tico-o-o-o?
The latest Paper of the Month for Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom is The longest documented travel by a West Indian manatee and is freely available for one month. …
Who was Lucy Stone?
When people think about early women’s rights activists they tend to think of Susan B. Anthony or Elizabeth Cady Stanton. They don’t usually name drop Lucy Stone (1818-1893), who was also a pioneer in the movement for women’s rights.&hell…
Conversations with Authors: Without Roots: The Political Consequences of Collective Economic Shocks
In this “Conversation with Authors,” we spoke with APSR authors Simone Cremaschi, Nicola Bariletto, and Catherine E. De Vries about their open access article “Without Roots: The Political Consequences of Collective Economic Shocks”…
The Value of Sleeping
Imagine there was a magical pill, one that allowed you to skip sleeping but gave you all the health benefits that sleep provides: you’d take the pill and you would feel rested and ready to go on working, studying, playing sports, taking care of your…
Meet the Editors: Tristan R. Grunow and Mary M. McCarthy, Editors for Asian-Pacific Journal
We are pleased to introduce ourselves to the Cambridge Core family as the co-editors of Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus. Tristan is a professor of modern Japanese history at Nagoya University, specializing in colonialism, architecture, urban planning, f…
