scholarly journals The COVID-19 Pandemic and our Heroes

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-6
Author(s):  
Renuka Yadav
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Law Enforcement Officers ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
The World ◽  
Short Commentary ◽  
The Way

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected millions of people across the globe and an equal number of people are at risk of contracting this disease. It has brought life to a standstill with people closing their businesses and adopting social distancing measures. Many countries/cities are under lockdown to contain the disease. To control this situation, the world has come together to combat this disease and return life back to normalcy. While many people are at their homes practicing social distancing, there are a few heroes which include healthcare professionals, law enforcement officers, volunteers etc. This short commentary focuses on the way COVID-19 has shaped the world and salutes its true heroes.

The Politics of Spatial Testimony: The Role of Space in Witnessing Martyrdom and Shame During and After a Widely Televised and Collectively Perpetrated Arson Attack in Turkey

2020 ◽  
pp. 120633122090609
Author(s):  
Eray Çaylı
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Political Violence ◽  
Law Enforcement Officers ◽  
Spatial Turn ◽  
Subject Positions ◽  
Spatial Mechanisms ◽  
The World ◽  
Central Eastern

This article engages with the spatial turn in the analyses of and activism against political violence. It does so through an ethnography of memory activism around an arson attack in Turkey, which took place in 1993 in the central-eastern city of Sivas before live TV cameras and thousands of onlookers, including law enforcement officers. The attack killed 33 guests of a culture festival organized by an association representing Alevism, one of Turkey’s demographically minor faiths. A prevalent approach to remembering the arson attack has hinged on mobilizing testimony’s cognates witnessing and martyrdom as spatial mechanisms, drawing on the site of the arson attack and/or its widely televised images. This mobilization has followed its contemporaries from around the world in that it has considered violence’s effects on the subjectivity of its spatial witnesses reducible to unambiguous subject positions adopted in discrete historical moments, using the affective trope of shame to rigidify and hierarchize this positionality. In-depth conversations with, and observations among, memory activists discussed in this article, however, indicate two reasons why this consideration might be limited. First, the mutual impact between activists’ subjectivity and each in-person or visually mediated encounter they have had with the site of the arson attack has taken shape in entanglement with rather than in isolation from other such encounters. Second, the historical moments featuring in these encounters are also manifold rather than singular. The article argues that the politics of spatial testimony hinges on this manifoldness and entanglement.

scholarly journals PENDEKATAN RESTORATIF DALAM PENJATUHAN SANKSI TINDAKAN BAGI ANAK YANG BERKONFLIK DENGAN HUKUM

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-143
Author(s):  
Citra
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Character Development ◽  
Law Enforcement Officers ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Legal Research ◽  
Criminal Offenses ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Law

Children are the next generation of the nation, the existence of children is very important because the child is a potential fate of the nation as well as a mirror attitude of life of the nation in the future. A child who is a superior seed and has the widest hope to prepare for his future as a milestone of success of a nation in the future should not fall in the world of evil. It is unfortunate that children at an early age have been involved in criminal offenses and past their youth behind bars, increasingly contaminated with other inmates. This research was empirical legal research, that is the research on the provisions of the legislation in the national law concerning restorative approach in the imposition of action sanctions against children in conflict with law in order to keep children away from imprisonment and negative stigma in society . Addressing the issue of a child in conflict with the law should be done in a familial approach and avoiding children from prison as much as possible. The sanction of action for the child contained in Article 82 of Law Number 11 of 2012 on Criminal Justice System for Children expected to prevent the child from the negative stigma in society and keep the children from bad effects of prison. Thus the current restorative model of punishment is more applicable in handling child offenders. It is expected that law enforcement officers to pay attention to the provisions of the rules that apply to children in conflict with the law in terms of imposition of more sanctions toward education and character development of children so that the threat of imprisonment becomes the last alternative in imposing sanctions for children

scholarly journals The Challenge of Forecasting Demand of Medical Resources and Supplies During a Pandemic: A Comparative Evaluation of Three Surge Calculators for COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amina A. Kamar ◽  
Noel Maalouf ◽  
Eveline Hitti ◽  
Ghada El Eid ◽  
Hussain A Ismaeel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Evaluation ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Healthcare Systems ◽  
World Health ◽  
Medical Resources ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization

Ever since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the new coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) as a pandemic, there has been a public health debate concerning medical resources and supplies including hospital beds, intensive care units (ICU), ventilators, and Protective Personal Equipment (PPE). Forecasting COVID-19 dissemination has played a key role in informing healthcare professionals and governments on how to manage overburdened healthcare systems. However, forecasting during the pandemic remained challenging and sometimes highly controversial. Here, we highlight this challenge by performing a comparative evaluation for the estimations obtained from three COVID-19 surge calculators under different social distancing approaches, taking Lebanon as a case study. Despite discrepancies in estimations, the three surge calculators used herein agree that there will be a relative shortage in the capacity of medical resources and a significant surge in PPE demand as the social distancing policy is removed. Our results underscore the importance of implementing containment interventions including social distancing in alleviating the demand for medical care during the COVID-19 pandemic in the absence of any medication or vaccine. It is said that ″All models are wrong, but some are useful″, in this paper we highlight that it is even more useful to employ several models.  

scholarly journals Invisible Powers to Punish: Licensee-barring Order Provisions in Victoria and South Australia

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clare Farmer
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
South Australia ◽  
Law Enforcement Officers ◽  
Formal Training ◽  
Limited Data ◽  
Excessive Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Excessive Alcohol ◽  
Public Area ◽  
The Way

Problems associated with excessive alcohol consumption have prompted a range of legislative, regulatory and operational responses. One provision empowers licensees, in Australian jurisdictions such as Victoria and South Australia, to formally exclude patrons from their venues and the surrounding public area. The imposition of a licensee-barring order requires no demonstrable offence to be committed. No proof needs to be documented and the ban takes effect immediately. Non-compliance is subject to police enforcement and possible criminal breach proceedings. The process through which a barring order may be challenged can be ambiguous and time consuming, and the punishment is typically served regardless of the review outcome. However, limited data are available to enable assessment of the way in which barring orders are used. As such, this paper examines how licensee-barring orders extend to non-judicial and non-law enforcement officers an on-the-spot and pre-emptive power to punish. Yet, with no formal training, monitoring or meaningful oversight of their use, barring orders are open to abuse and constitute a summary power to punish that is opaque to scrutiny.

scholarly journals Masked mimicry: The way of neo-culturalism

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-51
Author(s):  
Sarra Samra Benharrats
Keyword(s):  
Global Scale ◽  
Sociological Analysis ◽  
Social Crisis ◽  
Facial Mimicry ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Negotiation Strategies ◽  
Honest Signals ◽  
The World ◽  
Social Dynamic ◽  
The Way

Currently, the world is in the grip of a new health and social crisis linked to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. In this article, we opt for a descriptive and analytical sociological analysis of behaviours and reactions resulting from the introduction of barrier measures, imposed for the prevention of COVID-19 disease, in particular wearing of a mask, while focusing our interest on the Algerian society. The reactions are multiple and inform us about the issues and negotiation strategies for the integration of this new behaviour qualified as preventive to contain the pandemic: a societal phenomenon on a global scale which has triggered a process of normalisation through the integration of neo-culturalism of the Proxemic type with a pandemic character. According to the recommendations of the study, a Proxemic neo-culturalism is in the process of spreading in a pandemic manner, to establish an interactional balance through the emergence of a new social dynamic made concrete by the adaptation of ‘honest signals’.   Keywords: Facial mimicry, mask, COVID-19, protection, social distancing, neo-culturalism.

Police Interactions with Persons-in-Crisis

2017 ◽  
pp. 274-294
Author(s):  
Michael E. Christopher ◽  
Vincent G. Tsushima
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Emotional Disturbance ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Law Enforcement Officers ◽  
Severe Intoxication ◽  
At Risk Populations ◽  
Police Interactions ◽  
Psychologically Impaired

This chapter addresses the interaction of law enforcement officers and people who are psychologically impaired as a result of mental illness, emotional disturbance, or severe intoxication. The chapter consists of three major sections. Part One provides an overview of the larger legal and social factors that increasingly require law enforcement to develop specialized programmatic responses for responding to a Person-in-Crisis (PIC). Part Two provides an overview of different types of programmatic attempts to address the problems associated with these at-risk populations. Part Three offers recommendations to police psychologists on how to develop programmatic solutions to the challenges faced by law enforcement when dealing with PICs.

Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown on Digital Banking

2021 ◽  
pp. 160-176
Author(s):  
Narinder Kumar Bhasin ◽  
Anupama Rajesh
Keyword(s):  
Financial Institutions ◽  
Restricted Movement ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Infected People ◽  
Commercial Activities ◽  
Work From Home ◽  
Essential Services ◽  
The World ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Way

The COVID-19 outbreak has drastically changed the life of every person and has infected people in 185 countries. Since no vaccine has been developed for this disease so far, lockdown, work from home, and social distancing and only a few essential services were allowed to open. Lockdown and restricted movement of people was the only solution to control this crisis. These steps taken by all the countries have stopped all the commercial activities which left all businesses, banks, and financial institutions to count losses and cost. The big question which has emerged that whether e-collaboration between banks and technology continues to be the key to success for finding solutions to the problems in this new environment which COVID-19 has created. This chapter examines the way the digital banking collaboration between banks and Fintech can resolve the problems provided by the COVID-19 pandemic and control the impending economic fallout in India and across the world.

scholarly journals Large-scale Social Restrictions: What's Next?

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-214
Author(s):  
Namira Ivanka
Keyword(s):  
Mortality Rate ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Corona Virus ◽  
Rapid Spread ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Way

In the middle of the COvid-19 Pandemic, in addition to social distancing, the government is intensively preventing the spread of the corona virus, as we know that the corona virus is a very scary virus for many people. The virus has spread more and more every day and the way it is spread is very easy and can attack anyone and does not thicken the ages ranging from toddlers to the elderly can be exposed to this Covid-19 virus. Although this virus has a relatively low mortality rate. But who would have thought the spread was faster than other viruses. Until now the world is still racing to find a cure for this corona virus. Therefore, the government issued a policy so that it could immediately break the chain of the spread of the virus by means of large-scale social restrictions. And when large-scale social restrictions are implemented in an area to stop the spread of the corona virus (Covid-19), all activities are restricted. The enactment of large-scale social restrictions aims to fulfill the criteria for disease situations in the form of a significant increase in the number of cases and / or deaths from disease, rapid spread of cases to several regions, and there are epidemiological links with similar events in other regions or countries. 

scholarly journals From Outcasts in the Streets to Movers on the Hill: Narrating the Dark Side of Washington, D.C. in D.C. Noir

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-102
Author(s):  
Raluca Andreescu
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Law Enforcement Officers ◽  
Dark Side ◽  
Domestic Life ◽  
Family Ties ◽  
High Profile ◽  
The World ◽  
Recent Collection ◽  
The Hill

AbstractThis article examines the manner in which the recent collection D.C. Noir sets out to illuminate the dark urban corners of the so-called “Capital of the World.” I will look at how the neighborhood-based short stories in this collection reveal the urban underbelly of the American nation’s capital, its seedy underworld, the dark side of domestic life and murkiness of family ties, the racialized practices and institutionalized corruption plaguing the great American city. I argue that, through the collective voices of its residents, these stories offer precious insights into life as lived in the various corners of Washington, D.C., and bring to the fore a world populated not only by outcasts and the disenfranchised, but also by law enforcement officers, politicians, and high-profile representatives, similarly acting under the constraints of a dysfunctional city.

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