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La Trobe University
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Australian National University
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RMIT University
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University of New South Wales - Randwick Campus
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University of Oxford
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University of Tasmania
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The use of lethal force by police in USA: Mortality metrics of race and disintegration (2015-2019)
Publisher: AMH International Conferences and Seminars Organizing LLC
Date: 21-08-2020
DOI: 10.22610/JSDS.V10I4(S).3045
Abstract: Policing in the USA is dangerous for the US public. The objective of the present study is to determine the gross deaths due to lethal force by police and the racial distribution of those deaths compared to the racial distribution of the US population. Longitudinal data reveal that police in the USA kill one thousand people per year (n=1004 in 2019). Deaths by year and race are presented for the years 2015 through 2019. The racial distribution of victims of US police lethal force is not proportionate to the racial distribution of the US population. Whites account for the largest racial group of deaths, but are under-represented, accounting for 45% of police killings (and 60% of the population). Blacks are over-represented, accounting for 24% of police killings (and 13% of the population). Hispanics are proportionately represented, accounting for 17% of police killings (and 18% of the population). Others (including Asian, Native American, and others) are under-represented, accounting for 4% of police killings (and 8% of the population). The rate of US police killings has been relatively stable for the past five years (with a low of 962 deaths in 2016 and a high of 1,004 deaths in 2019). The US police killing rate in The USA is 3.05 police killings per million of population. The US police killing rate of Blacks is 5.34 per million of Hispanics is 2.63 per million, of Whites is 1.87 per million, and of others is 1.5 per million of population. The US police killing rate of Blacks is 2.86 times the US police killing rate of Whites. US police killing rates compare unfavorably with other jurisdictions. The police fatal shooting rate in Australia is 0.17% per million of population, one eighteenth of the police killing rate in the USA (an Australian rate of police killings applied to the US population would produce 56 US police killings per year). The reasons for the high rate of police killings in the USA and for the racial disparities of those killings are multifactorial. The valorization of violence and the glamorization of guns are woven tightly into the history and culture of the USA. The metrics of US police killings are a symptom of larger issues within American society. Treating one symptom will not remedy the malady blighting the organism. Is it time for an American societal and rethink of its relationship with violence, in the light of these metrics of disintegration? Is Violent America fixable? Only time will tell
Vaccination Adverse Outcomes and Costs of Vaccine Injury Claims (VICs): Past, Present and Covid-19
Publisher: Hill Publishing Group Inc.
Date: 11-12-2020
The Incarnation of Eddie Burrup: A Review of Elizabeth Durack, Art & Life, Selected Writings, Perpetua Durack Clancy (Editor), Brisbane: Connor Court
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 16-05-2017
DOI: 10.3390/ARTS6020007
GMOs and Organic Agriculture: Six Lessons from Australia
Publisher: Journal Agriculture and Forestry
Date: 31-03-2015
FOUR NEW STRATEGIES TO GROW THE ORGANIC AGRICULTURE SECTOR
Publisher: National and University Library of the Republic of Srpska
Date: 03-04-2017
Abstract: This paper presents four new strategies for growing the organic agriculture sector.Globally there are 51 million hectares of certified organic agriculture land and afurther 39 million hectares of wild culture land. For the past two decades organicagriculture has been growing at 11.9% per annum, thereby doubling the size of thesector every six years. Nevertheless, despite ten decades of advocacy for organics,only 1.1% of the world’s agricultural land is certified organic. From the outset, thestrategy has been to advance the sector ‘one farm at a time’. This strategy has leftthe organics sector well short of the vision of the pioneers of organics who saworganic farming as a universal solution and a practice suited for all farmers and allagriculture. Successful exemplars of marketing strategies of converting ‘oneconsumer at a time’ remain elusive. Recent years have seen the development ofnew strategies for growth of the organics sector. The strategy of ‘one crop at atime’ has proved successful for the Dominican Republic which now produces 55%of the world’s certified organic bananas. The strategy of ‘one state at a time’ hasseen the state of Sikkim (in India) declare itself as the first Indian organic state.Meanwhile, other Indian states are working towards all-organic status, includingMizoram, Goa, Rajasthan and Meghalaya. The strategy of ‘one island at a time’ hasseen the Pacific islands of Cicia (in Fiji) and Abaiang (in Kiribati) commit to 100%organic farming. The strategy of ‘one country at a time’ sees Bhutan with the statedgoal of being the world’s first organic nation. These new strategies rely for successon the tripartite cooperation of government, community and commerce. In themeantime, as these new strategies play out, only 11 countries report that 10% ormore of their agriculture land is organic, while 111 countries report that less than1% of their land is certified organic, which reveals great potential for new growthstrategies.
Genetically Modified (GM) Canola: Price Penalties and Contaminations
Publisher: Biomedical Research Network, LLC
Date: 18-04-2019
The Rachel Carson Letters and the Making of Silent Spring
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-2013
Abstract: Environment, conservation, green, and kindred movements look back to Rachel Carson’s 1962 book Silent Spring as a milestone. The impact of the book, including on government, industry, and civil society, was immediate and substantial, and has been extensively described however, the provenance of the book has been less thoroughly examined. Using Carson’s personal correspondence, this paper reveals that the primary source for Carson’s book was the extensive evidence and contacts compiled by two biodynamic farmers, Marjorie Spock and Mary T. Richards, of Long Island, New York. Their evidence was compiled for a suite of legal actions (1957-1960) against the U.S. Government and that contested the aerial spraying of dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT). During Rudolf Steiner’s lifetime, Spock and Richards both studied at Steiner’s Goetheanum, the headquarters of Anthroposophy, located in Dornach, Switzerland. Spock and Richards were prominent U.S. anthroposophists, and established a biodynamic farm under the tutelage of the leading biodynamics exponent of the time, Dr. Ehrenfried Pfeiffer. When their property was under threat from a government program of DDT spraying, they brought their case, eventually lost it, in the process spent US$100,000, and compiled the evidence that they then shared with Carson, who used it, and their extensive contacts and the trial transcripts, as the primary input for Silent Spring. Carson attributed to Spock, Richards, and Pfeiffer, no credit whatsoever in her book. As a consequence, the organics movement has not received the recognition, that is its due, as the primary impulse for Silent Spring, and it is, itself, unaware of this provenance.
Science Versus Public Sentiment: “Covid-19 is not a Bioweapon Created in a Laboratory, Say UK Scientists”, “Nope, Don’t Believe It”, Say UK Public
Publisher: Hill Publishing Group Inc.
Date: 24-07-2020
Button Batteries and Child Deaths: Market Failure of Unsafe Products
Publisher: Hill Publishing Group Inc.
Date: 15-06-2021
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University Of Oxford
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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