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Western Journal of Nursing Research, Ahead of Print.
Background:Family caregivers often struggle to track daily caregiving tasks (eg, managing medications, appointments). To address this, our team developed CareMobi, a mobile app designed to make caregiving more organized, collaborative, and manageable....

European Journal of Industrial Relations, Ahead of Print.
Working conditions in the care services have long been the subject of controversial debates in Germany (and across Europe). Based on a multi-method approach, this article examines the evolving dynamics of industrial relations in early childhood education ...

Clinical Nursing Research, Ahead of Print.
To reveal the effectiveness of the Benson’s relaxation technique on the anxiety and hemodynamic parameters of patients with cardiovascular disease. A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled studies. Eight electronic databases were ...

Race & Class, Ahead of Print.
This commentary by the organisers of the ongoing People’s Tribunal on Police Killings (PTPK), which held its first hearings in London on 5–6 April 2025, describes key features of the background to and hearings of the PTPK. Despite an estimated 3,000 ...

["American Business Law Journal, Volume 63, Issue 2, Page 177-187, Summer 2026. ", "\nAbstract\nArtificial intelligence (AI) is no longer merely a tool of invention. It has become an inventor. As AI systems increasingly contribute to the design and discovery of new technologies, their involvement raises novel challenges for patent law. This essay presents the first empirical test of whether jurors systematically perceive alleged patent infringement differently when a product is designed by AI rather than human engineers. In a controlled experiment involving a hypothetical patent dispute, participants were significantly more likely to find infringement, award higher damages, and judge business practices as less ethical when a putatively infringing device was designed by AI. These findings reveal a legally irrelevant but psychologically powerful distortion in adjudicating AI‐designed products, with serious implications for firms, innovation policy, and the future structure of patent incentives. We conclude by discussing strategies for business leaders, litigators, and policymakers as AI becomes a central actor in technological innovation.\n"]

["American Business Law Journal, Volume 63, Issue 2, Page 129-150, Summer 2026. ", "\nAbstract\nIn many cases alleging consumer deception, a plaintiff must prove both that the representation at issue was false or misleading and that it was material. While there is an extensive body of law addressing when a representation is false or misleading, there is a paucity of authority on how to establish that the representation was material. Neither federal regulation nor case law has clearly laid out a standard method by which materiality should be measured. In this article we empirically show how a research study's design can impact its effectiveness in identifying an attribute's materiality and propose a measurement method that can effectively measure both small and large effects of that attribute, independent of the overall desirability of a product and the importance of other characteristics of that product. Using mathematical simulations, we show that between‐groups experiments are less effective than within‐groups experimental choice tasks at identifying the presence of a material attribute when ceiling effects or other important traits are present in a product. We also explain why focalism bias and the need for marketplace realism are inappropriate objections to the use of a within‐groups choice task to measure materiality. Finally, we demonstrate the utility of our proposed methodology with two case studies.\n"]

["American Business Law Journal, Volume 63, Issue 2, Page 105-127, Summer 2026. ", "\nAbstract\nIn the face of powerful criticism, the “reliance interest” continues to hold an impactful position in judicial and academic treatment of contract damages. And yet, the theoretical foundation of reliance damages for breach of contract remains unsettled. This Article exposes the inability of the reliance scholarship to coherently explain and justify the widespread judicial practice of awarding reliance damages in lieu of expectation damages. Considering this failure, the Article offers a hitherto overlooked promise‐based conception of the reliance interest. Under reliance‐as‐promise, the right to be reimbursed for one's reasonably foreseeable performance costs is a secondary remedial right grounded in an implied contractual promise which the law attributes to every contracting party. When due to a total breach it becomes clear that the contract will not be performed, the background duty to reimburse comes into play. The Article presents and develops this promise‐based account. It claims that reliance as promise can provide a more coherent normative and explanatory account of the phenomenon of awarding reliance damages for breach of contract. Apart from its explanatory force, and the normative support it can find in major contract theories, reliance as promise finds support in basic psychological insights and in the findings of a preliminary empirical study conducted by the authors.\n"]

Journal of Transcultural Nursing, Ahead of Print.

Journal of Transcultural Nursing, Ahead of Print.

Journal of Industrial Relations, Ahead of Print.
This article examines how geopolitical tensions reshape informal economic activities through supply chain restructuring. Drawing on 60 interviews with workers and systematic analysis of 47 policy documents across Greece, Turkey, and Bulgaria, the research ...

Clinical Nursing Research, Ahead of Print.
Personalized music interventions and earplugs have shown promise in preventing intensive care unit (ICU) delirium, but evidence on their combined effects is limited. To evaluate the feasibility and preliminary effects of personalized music intervention ...

Race & Class, Ahead of Print.
Genocide is commonly approached as an exceptional crime defined by episodes of mass killing, yet such understandings remain inadequate for grasping how colonial modernity organises the systematic destruction of collective existence. Dominant approaches to ...

Journal of Industrial Relations, Ahead of Print.
This article challenges the assumed link between Hyman's theory of trade union identity (2001) and union positioning on just transition policies. Through a sectoral case study, we question the correspondence established in the literature between union ...

European Journal of Industrial Relations, Ahead of Print.
The twin transition in the automotive industry is driving profound changes for its suppliers. Their future viability and employment prospects are increasingly dependent on them actively reshaping their business models. Despite undergoing radical ...

Youth & Society, Ahead of Print.

Work and Occupations, Ahead of Print.
This paper examines how employer demand for workers skilled in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) is associated with employment patterns in copyright-intensive industries within the U.S. information sector. Using panel data from the Census Bureau's ...

Work and Occupations, Ahead of Print.
Artificial intelligence (AI) usually enters organizations as a tool whose work-design implications appear onlyafterimplementation. This study shifts the analytic starting point upstream to examine how healthcare AI “makers,” through market-facing ...

Nursing Ethics, Ahead of Print.
Wrongdoings occur in healthcare, and effective whistleblowing structures and practices are essential for ethically addressing these issues in organisations. However, research on whistleblowing in healthcare from an organisational perspective remains ...

["Journal of Law and Society, Volume 53, Issue 2, Page 239-262, June 2026. ", "\nAbstract\nDrawing on the theoretical frameworks of street‐level bureaucracy and the evolving role of prosecutors under institutional pressure, this article offers an empirical contribution to the literature on ‘crimmigration’. It interrogates how prosecutors interpret their role within human‐smuggling cases and how these interpretations affect the criminalization or protection of migrants. The findings suggest that excessive criminalization may stem not only from broad legal definitions but also from the ways in which prosecutors understand and enact their role in practice. The article further contends that promoting a more magisterial prosecutorial role – characterized by legal autonomy, normative deliberation, and a rule‐of‐law‐based weighing of interests – can foster a more balanced and rights‐compliant approach to human smuggling. Such an orientation, it suggests, better aligns prosecutorial practices with international and European legal standards, and may help to counter the overreach of criminal law in migration governance.\n"]

["Journal of Law and Society, Volume 53, Issue 2, Page 263-290, June 2026. ", "\nAbstract\nThis article investigates how Danish academics participate in, interpret, and reproduce debates on the legal and normative regulation of Muslims in Denmark since the early 2000s. Through a thematic analysis of journal articles and public dissemination outputs authored by Danish researchers, it explores the social production of legal knowledge and scholars’ positioning in relation to mainstream Islamophobic discourse. The study finds that positionality statements are largely absent or superficial, while identity‐prejudicial stereotypes, pre‐emptive silencing, and epistemic objectification are widespread. Academic accounts frequently omit Islamophobia as an analytical concept, which marginalizes the lived experiences of Muslims and obscures the religious and racial dynamics of law. Consequently, the findings suggest that Danish academic discourse systemically distorts the collective understanding of laws and regulations affecting Muslims by perpetuating testimonial and hermeneutical injustices.\n"]

["Journal of Law and Society, Volume 53, Issue 2, Page 335-358, June 2026. ", "\nAbstract\nRecent years have seen mounting concern about the use of rap music as evidence in criminal proceedings, alongside an ever‐increasing number of cases involving ‘rap evidence’. Yet, while rap music is widely recognized to be highly prejudicial as evidence in court, little is known about how ‘prejudicial effect’ is, or should be, conceptualized and addressed in these cases. This article unpacks the meaning of prejudicial effect in criminal trials, offering a broad interpretation that encapsulates epistemic (accuracy) and non‐epistemic (fairness) concerns, interrogates how the social and cultural context of rap music can make it ‘unduly prejudicial’ as evidence, and explores how the appellate courts approach the prejudicial effect of rap evidence. The article proposes more informative directions to jurors and advocates for legislation to restrict the admissibility of rap evidence, emphasizing the importance of assessing evidence in its proper social and cultural context.\n"]

["Journal of Law and Society, Volume 53, Issue 2, Page 187-210, June 2026. ", "\nAbstract\nOur research combined statistical data, interviews, and geographic information system (GIS) tools to map social welfare legal aid ‘deserts’ in England and Wales. This novel mixed methodology enabled us to explore the spatiality of unmet legal aid need. We show that provision may be spatially uneven even where provider offices do exist, indicating that some legal desert areas have gone unidentified (absolute shortage), that contracted provider offices may not in fact be undertaking any legal aid work even when surrounded by areas of likely legal aid need (obscured shortage), and that certain types of provision may be unavailable even where other types are available, while few areas have provision for multiple legal problems (partial shortage). These findings call into question the commonly used dichotomy of met and unmet legal aid need. We argue that our findings demonstrate that a market‐based scheme alone cannot meet the need for legal aid provision.\n"]

["Journal of Law and Society, Volume 53, Issue 2, Page 291-314, June 2026. ", "\nAbstract\nThis article explores the legal consciousness of bereaved people in contact with the coronial system in England and Wales, drawing on an interview‐based empirical study. Informed by socio‐legal scholarship on relational dimensions of legal consciousness and citizens’ mobilization of the law, the article analyses the relationships within and through which bereaved people mobilize the law of the inquest in pursuit of change. Three key relational approaches to mobilization are identified: the bereaved act for others, including the deceased, wider family, and other bereaved people; they act collaboratively with others, including family, friends, and professionals; and they act upon others in challenging professional and institutional practices and wider structures deemed to be implicated in the death. This study represents the first application, as far as we are aware, of the concept of legal consciousness to the coronial jurisdiction. It thereby contributes to understanding of the dynamic and interactive co‐creation of legal consciousness in high‐stakes legal encounters.\n"]

["Journal of Law and Society, Volume 53, Issue 2, Page 211-238, June 2026. ", "\nAbstract\nConventional top‐down approaches to legal reform tend to overlook the contributions of social movements in legal change, often resulting in a gender‐blind analysis. In response, I advance ‘becoming legal’ as an analytical framework to rethink legal change in terms of a bottom‐up process encompassing informal proceedings as well as formal status changes. Enabling a gender analysis of legal change, becoming legal gives significance to often overlooked sites, agents, and practices. Rather than focusing on the widely studied experiences of Britain or the United States, I ground the argument in the first comprehensive analysis of feminist mobilization around abortion law reform in 1970s Italy. During this period, the Italian Parliament approved Law 194/1978, which still regulates abortion access in the country. Beyond traditional legal methods, I draw on original archival materials that span feminist records and parliamentary debates, and new oral history interviews with campaigners.\n"]

["Journal of Law and Society, Volume 53, Issue 2, Page 359-383, June 2026. ", "\nAbstract\nThis article explores the role of labour law in processes of racialization and gendering of work. It argues that labour law not only protects certain forms of work (law as a protective mechanism), but also systematically excludes other forms of work, especially those performed by racialized and gendered individuals (law as a technology of exclusion). The article traces the oscillation between protection and exclusion in international labour law (ILL) from the interwar period to the post‐Second World War era. During the interwar period, the International Labour Organization (ILO) codified the ‘standard employment relationship’ (SER) as a universal model, while simultaneously codifying racialized and gendered work as less valued by relying on biological justifications. After the Second World War, the ILO shifted from a model grounded in biological determinism to a paradigm based on human rights and anti‐discrimination law. However, this shift did not eradicate law's function as a technology of exclusion but rather reconfigured it through two mechanisms: externalization and individualization. The article sheds light on both mechanisms and argues that, ultimately, they obscure law's active role in perpetuating dynamics of racialization and gendering of work.\n"]

["Bioethics, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nLab‐technicians are at risk of sustaining moral injuries when complicit in unethical experiments. Prima facie, it would be puzzling to offer the perpetrator of an unethical experiment psychological support in the form of moral repair. However, we argue that lab technicians are owed moral repair as a special case of our proposed duty of special concern. The duty of special concern states that special consideration must be given to the welfare of those who undertake substantial risks for the benefit of others in a cooperative scheme. We make sense of the substantial risk of moral concern lab technicians face by drawing on Rawls' notion of imperfect procedures of justice. Imperfect procedures of justice are those that aim for just outcomes, but procedures do not guarantee those outcomes. Animal experimentation belongs to this category, as it aims for only ethical experiments to be conducted, yet that result is not guaranteed by its procedures. The risk of moral injury falls heavily on lab technicians as they will be the ones to implement the unethical experiment. Hence, we make sense of the puzzling intuition that lab technicians have conducted an unethical experiment yet are owed psychological support.\n"]

["American Business Law Journal, EarlyView. ", "\nAbstract\nThis article proposes a new theoretical framework for resolving conflicts between antitrust law and securities regulation, which is distinctive in four respects. First, it eschews the traditional approach of resolving antitrust‐securities conflicts through implied antitrust immunity, which unjustifiably prioritizes securities regulation above antitrust law. Second, it argues for a narrow definition of conflict, encompassing only conduct presently authorized or required by the securities regime that also has likely and significant anticompetitive effects; practices that are illegal under both antitrust law and securities regulation are thereby excluded. Third, this article builds on the literature on the antitrust‐intellectual property interface to recommend a structured, rule‐of‐reason framework for resolving conflicts at the antitrust‐securities interface. Unlike implied antitrust immunity, which automatically allows securities regulation concerns to trump antitrust concerns, the rule of reason seeks to strike a proper balance. The analysis begins by asking whether the securities practice has likely and significant anticompetitive effects. It then inquires into the securities regulation concerns behind the conduct and whether there is a less restrictive means of addressing those concerns. Fourth, a two‐stage procedure is proposed for implementing the rule of reason to resolve antitrust‐securities conflicts in rulemaking and adjudication, involving the collaboration of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Department of Justice, and the courts.\n"]

Nursing Ethics, Ahead of Print.
BackgroundEthical leadership is recognized as a key factor influencing proactive employee behaviors in healthcare. However, limited longitudinal evidence exists on its relationship with nurses’ voice behavior over time.ObjectivesThis study examines the ...

Journal of Industrial Relations, Ahead of Print.
This study examines micro-level data on 24.5 million workers across 15 European countries (2006–2018) to assess the role of trade unions (measured through collective bargaining coverage and trade union density) in moderating the effects of robot adoption ...

Race & Class, Ahead of Print.
India’s legal framework for sex work occupies a persistent paradox: sex work itself is not illegal, yet the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act (ITPA, 1986) criminalises virtually every activity that sustains it. This article argues that this paradox is not ...

["Bioethics, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nThe voluntary stopping of eating and drinking (VSED) is a phenomenon whereby an individual with decision‐making capacity chooses to cease eating and drinking with the intention of ending their own life. This is widely acknowledged as a lawful, albeit uncommon, end‐of‐life decision. It is now generally accepted that patients undertaking VSED should have access to appropriate palliative care, as per any other form of dying. However, it remains unclear whether terminal sedation (TS), the use of sedative drugs to treat intolerable symptoms at the end of life, should form part of this palliative care. In this paper, we explore and defend the use of TS in the management of VSED. We argue that TS is medically appropriate in the management of patients undertaking VSED who develop refractory delirium and have previously consented to TS. We further argue that, given the life expectancy window in cases of VSED, the appropriate use of sedation during this time does not hasten death and fits within the 2‐week limit applied to traditional TS. We conclude that TS is medically and ethically appropriate in the management of VSED.\n"]

["Bioethics, EarlyView. ", "\nAbstract\nIn this paper, we focus narrowly on the question of the relevance of public engagement in clinical research (PER). Over the past 20 years, demands for public engagement in research have grown dramatically in their number and scope. In the same period, we have also witnessed escalating attacks on expertise in general and science in particular. This paper responds to these developments. We draw on themes in John Rawls's Political Liberalism to make two distinct points which intertwine in the current anti‐science, anti‐expertise movement and shed light on the pro‐PER phenomenon. First, we emphasize the importance of Rawls's awareness of the fragility of liberal democracy and, relatedly, the necessity of observing “the duty of civility,” thus providing a basis for critiquing the tenor of PER advocacy. Second, we draw on Rawlsian insights on justice to explain why PER is not an issue of justice. We also employ findings from studies on human psychology to illuminate the significant difference between expert thinking and lay thinking. Noting the absence of evidence for PER producing benefits, and drawing on our own experience, we make the case that PER has no role in clinical research. It undermines accountability, diverts resources, and complicates the already burdensome research processes.\n"]

["Bioethics, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nArtificial intelligence (AI)‐generated synthetic data has emerged as a promising solution to address the underrepresentation of underserved populations in medical AI systems. By artificially generating data that mimics real‐world patient information, proponents argue that AI‐generated synthetic data can fill data gaps, improve algorithmic fairness, and mitigate bias without requiring costly data collection or raising privacy concerns. However, in this article, I challenge this optimistic view. I argue that AI‐generated synthetic data may amplify existing biases rather than mitigate them, and complicate informed consent processes in ways that disproportionately harm underserved populations. I examine two critical ethical dimensions: (1) how the opacity inherent in synthetic data generation can reproduce and amplify discriminatory patterns present in the source data, and (2) how AI‐generated synthetic data complexifies informed consent. I conclude that while AI‐generated synthetic data offers apparent technical advantages, it fails to address, and may worsen, data disparities affecting underserved populations. Rather than pursuing synthetic solutions, I believe that we should address the structural barriers that prevent genuine inclusion of underserved populations in medical research.\n"]

["Bioethics, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nResponsibility continues to shape how many transplant programs evaluate liver transplantation for patients with Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD), even in settings where the traditional 6‐month abstinence rule has been abandoned. This article argues that using past drinking to lower transplant priority, or to break ties between candidates, is ethically mistaken and clinically harmful. Appeals to personal responsibility often misrepresent the nature of addiction and overestimate the degree of knowledge and control individuals possess when harmful drinking patterns begin and escalate. Early onset of alcohol use, trauma, and psychiatric comorbidity frequently constrain the range of meaningful options available long before transplantation becomes relevant. When these histories are treated primarily as evidence of blameworthy behavior, stigma is reinforced and patients may have fewer incentives to be honest about relapse risk or struggles in treatment. The article examines several influential arguments that defend the use of responsibility in transplant allocation and explains why they fail in practice. It then proposes an alternative framework. Allocation should rely on forward‐looking criteria that are relevant to clinical outcomes and fairness, including medical urgency, expected benefit, engagement in treatment, reliability in follow‐up care, and the presence of social support. These considerations can be assessed more transparently than retrospective judgments about deservingness and avoid penalizing patients for circumstances that contributed to their illness. The article concludes by considering the implications for transplant committees. Policies should reward engagement in care and support recovery rather than rely on retrospective moral judgments about past behavior. Doing so strengthens trust between clinicians and patients, improves adherence to treatment, and allocates a scarce resource on grounds that are ethically relevant to the success of transplantation.\n"]

Nursing Ethics, Ahead of Print.
Human and ethical values are foundational to nursing education and practice. However, limited empirical evidence exists on how ethical formation is enacted and sustained in Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) education, particularly in vocational and non-...

["Human Resource Development Quarterly, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nThis study extends Conservation of Resources (COR) theory by examining how perceived hierarchical threats experienced by supervisors cascade through dyadic relationships to shape subordinates' career self‐management. COR posits that resources are embedded within social passageways—relationships that enable or constrain their flow. Drawing on this logic, we conceptualize supervisor–subordinate dyads as resource passageways through which resource threats can cross over from one actor to another. Using time‐lagged, multi‐source data from 233 supervisor–subordinate dyads, we find that supervisors who feel their hierarchical position threatened engage in knowledge hiding as a resource‐conserving behavior, restricting subordinates' access to developmental resources. This defensive behavior produces a crossover effect: resource loss for supervisors triggers resource depletion for subordinates, prompting compensatory self‐management strategies. Specifically, subordinates high in status striving respond with careerist behaviors aimed at preserving external advancement resources, whereas those high in achievement striving adopt protean, self‐directed approaches to replenish internal resources. By extending COR beyond its traditional individual‐level application, this study illuminates how resource protection and loss spirals unfold relationally, offering a resource‐based explanation for divergent career orientations. The findings underscore the importance of HR systems and leadership development initiatives that mitigate hierarchical threat perceptions and sustain resource‐enabling passageways for employee growth.\n"]

["Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nWe argue that the forensic concept of “dangerousness” should be expanded to protect non‐human animals when danger is readily foreseeable and before it materializes into substantial harm. The criminal justice approach is limited in this respect because it relies on cruelty statutes that are largely reactive, embodying the adage that “some must suffer first” before intervention can occur. We demonstrate that dangerousness principles and/or language are already embedded—often implicitly and sometimes explicitly—in at least five areas of animal law. We highlight the well‐accepted “grave disability” criteria used in assessing dangerousness to self because of the parallels to the deficits noted in animal hoarding, with the main difference being the absence or presence of animals. A civil approach focused on forfeiture (and when appropriate, mental health intervention) rather than prosecution could help bridge the gap between the care animals deserve and the deficiencies that criminal law will currently tolerate.\n"]

Social & Legal Studies, Ahead of Print.
This article theorises racial eliminativism and civil ordering operating in combination as ongoing processes to eradicate race and counteract racism. Racial eliminativism and civil ordering are initially explicated as complementary ideational and ...

Journal of European Social Policy, Ahead of Print.
The ‘dependent variable problem’ remains a persistent challenge in the analysis of welfare state change, for which family policy is a prime case: it combines heterogeneous policy instruments spanning cash benefits, time-related entitlements, and services, ...

["International Insolvency Review, EarlyView. ", "\nAbstract\nRelated party loans, due to their inherent nature, warrant a higher threshold for scrutiny when compared to loans extended by unrelated parties. Why were these monies advanced as loans, carrying higher priority in insolvency, rather than being invested as share capital? Even though such loans might be regarded as having an underlying presumption of self‐interest, all related party loans are not mala fide, and many may serve genuine business needs that benefit the debtor and other stakeholders. Some jurisdictions, such as the United States, take into account these equitable considerations to evaluate whether related party claims warrant subordination in the order of priority during liquidation; while other jurisdictions, such as Germany, automatically subordinate these claims. Notably, Asian jurisdictions exhibit a regulatory vacuum, characterised by the absence of a statutory framework and minimal judicial guidance for subordination of related party claims in insolvency proceedings. The paper argues that a related‐party subordination regime ought to be quintessential in the Asian context, as these regions are characterised by family‐owned business and conglomerates wherein intra‐group lending is prevalent. While bona fide related‐party lending can benefit businesses, external investors may be deterred by uncertainty about the priority of their claims relative to related‐party creditors who could exploit insider status in insolvency. With Asia now approaching a 50% contribution to global GDP, it is imperative to keep up with global standards of creditor protection and legal predictability. In light of this, the paper examines the subordination regimes of the United States, Germany, Spain, and Italy, to ultimately propose a model for Asian countries to enhance creditor confidence and legal certainty with respect to subordination of related party claims, while avoiding overly restrictive rules that could deter legitimate business activity.\n"]

Western Journal of Nursing Research, Ahead of Print.

The Journal of School Nursing, Ahead of Print.

Work, Employment and Society, Ahead of Print.

["Journal of Law and Society, EarlyView. ", "\nAbstract\nSocial security claimants in the United Kingdom are drawn into a climate of accountability. The blend of law and administration means that they can be required to explain actions and expose choices to judgement. Claimants can be held accountable for ensuring not only that their possession‐ and labour‐based resources are factored into claim decisions, but also that they represent these resources accurately and use them ‘appropriately’. In short, they can be accountable for what they have and what they do. This article is important for setting out a new framework and offering fresh perspectives on accountability and regulation. It shows that those with authority are endeavouring to find ways of holding the less powerful to account and suggests that regulatory accountability contributes to a displacement of traditional accountability.\n"]

Nursing Ethics, Ahead of Print.
BackgroundAt a time marked by ongoing global instability and health emergencies, the ethical and operational burdens on healthcare systems derived from the COVID-19 crisis, remain urgently relevant. Positioned between frontline staff and senior management,...

["Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nExpert opinion about dangerousness or risk is common at sentencing, criminal commitment proceedings and some types of pretrial detention hearings. This article argues that such evidence must be (1) “material” (logically relevant, empirically generalizable, and epistemologically germane), (2) “probative” (a measure of accuracy, which is heightened when the evidence is from an expert), (3) helpful to the factfinder (through promoting “incremental validity”), and (4) presented in a non‐prejudicial manner (i.e., in a way that minimizes the possibility it will be misused or misinterpreted).\n"]

["Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nThough the vast majority of criminal convictions stem from guilty pleas, what occurs after the plea is relatively unknown. Data on appeals of guilty pleas was collected from two states to explore the prevalence and outcomes of guilty plea appeals, in addition to characteristics of those cases. One state produced approximately 5.5 times more plea appeal opinions per month than the other. Interestingly, one state's appeals largely centered around excessive sentencing claims (73.6%), while the other saw a range of grounds (e.g., ineffective assistance of counsel). Appealing defendants in one state almost always lost (only a 2% likelihood of success), compared to higher reversal rates in the other state (near 25%). These results reveal stark variations across states that shed light on how appellate courts review guilty plea appeals. In addition, this study highlights the challenges of collecting appellate court data and points to future areas for research to better illuminate plea processes and appeals.\n"]

Work and Occupations, Ahead of Print.

["Bioethics, Volume 40, Issue 5, Page 482-490, June 2026. ", "\nABSTRACT\nScientific advancements offer new possibilities for developing novel treatments for children with monogenic neurodevelopmental disorders (mNDDs), targeting the underlying effects of their condition. Although, in qualitative studies, parents of children with mNDDs have predominantly positive attitudes towards the development of novel treatments, a few parents express concerns about whether treatments could change who their child is. Existing literature on personal identity, including literature on how personal identity is affected by medical (neuro‐)interventions, can assist in clarifying these concerns. This paper provides an analysis of interview data on perspectives of parents with children with mNDDs (STXBP1‐Related Disorders and Kleefstra Syndrome) on the impact of novel treatments on their child's identity. We identify four sets of concerns, about whether treatments (1) enable children to develop their self, (2) alienate children from their true self, (3) disrupt children's relational identities, and (4) defy children's horizontal identities. While parents hope that treatments will help children flourish, some worry that treatments may alienate children from their self or alter children's personal characteristics which are meaningful to caregivers, thereby disrupting family dynamics. Others fear treatments may produce stigma by perpetuating the narrative that children need to be “fixed”. This analysis helps to understand the ambivalence some parents express when considering their child's participation in clinical trials. For clinicians and researchers, it is essential to discuss parents' concerns about impacts of treatments on their child's identity (if present) when deciding on the child's participation in clinical trials, and to monitor children for identity‐related effects of novel treatments.\n"]

Western Journal of Nursing Research, Ahead of Print.
Background:A body of literature consistently highlights that women from minority cultures have been an underserved group in cervical screening.Objective:We aimed to report the development and psychometric assessment of the Cervical Cancer Screening ...