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"Delito y cambio social en Costa Rica", de Rodolfo Calderón Umaña.
No full textReseña del libro Delito y cambio social en Costa Rica, de Rodolfo Calderón Umaña
Culture of Fear and Control in Costa Rica (I). Crime Statistics and Law Enforcement
Get PDFHuhn S. Culture of Fear and Control in Costa Rica (I). Crime Statistics and Law Enforcement. GIGA Working Papers. Vol 104. Hamburg: GIGA; 2009.The Costa Rican talk of crime is fundamentally based on the assumption that crime rates have increased significantly in recent years and that there is today a vast and alarming amount of crime. On the basis of this assumption, fear of crime, the call for the “iron fist,” and drastic law enforcement actions are continually increasing. While crime statistics are the logical basis for the hypothesis on the far-reaching extent of delinquency, they are used in a problematic way in the talk of crime. In this paper I discuss Costa Rican crime statis-tics, their development, and their utilization in the talk of crime against the background of criminological theory. The theses of the paper are that a) the informative value of crime statistics regarding Costa Rican reality is far more questionable than the common utiliza-tion of them implies and b) when they are used as argumentation, these crime statistics do not provide evidence of the oft-proclaimed rising crime wave
The Culture of Fear and Control in Costa Rica (I): Crime Statistics and Law Enforcement
Get PDFThe Costa Rican talk of crime is fundamentally based on the assumption that crime rates have increased significantly in recent years and that there is today a vast and alarming amount of crime. On the basis of this assumption, fear of crime, the call for the “iron fist,” and drastic law enforcement actions are continually increasing. While crime statistics are the logical basis for the hypothesis on the far-reaching extent of delinquency, they are used in a problematic way in the talk of crime. In this paper I discuss Costa Rican crime statis-tics, their development, and their utilization in the talk of crime against the background of criminological theory. The theses of the paper are that a) the informative value of crime statistics regarding Costa Rican reality is far more questionable than the common utiliza-tion of them implies and b) when they are used as argumentation, these crime statistics do not provide evidence of the oft-proclaimed rising crime wave.Costa Rica, violence, crime, social order, crime statistics, public discourse
"Delito y cambio social en Costa Rica", de Rodolfo Calderón Umaña.
Get PDFReseña del libro Delito y cambio social en Costa Rica, de Rodolfo Calderón Umaña
La Conferencia del Rector Facio sobre Marxismo. Una Respuesta
No full textEl presente trabajo, se basa en la conferencia dictada por el Sr. Rector de la Universidad de Costa Rica. en un ciclo de conferencias, sobre el pensamiento contemporáneo, organizado por la Cátedra de Filosofía de la &cuela de Ciencias y Letras. F.sa conferencia, pronunciada en la Escuela de Educación, en 195 7, se refería a un tema mucho más amplio: el marxismo, el clasicismo y el liberalismo, todo bajo el titulo general: "El Triunfo del Hombre Contemporáneo sobre los Dogmatismos Sociales"
Esterase-6 and the pheromonal effects of cis-vaccenyl acetate in Drosophila melanogaster
No full textTaking stock of circadian clock complexity
No full textCircadian clocks are ubiquitous! This terse sentence
has been used frequently in the last few years to mean
not only that almost all higher organisms (and some
bacteria) exhibit circadian rhythmicity controlled by
an endogenous circadian clock,1 but also that many
autonomous oscillators are present in different tissues
or organs.2,3 Clock research also represents one of
the more productive and faster evolving areas of biology,
as evidenced by the extraordinary number of
high profile publications that keep coming, thick and
fast. This in turn has produced a market for reviews
of molecular chronobiology, yet the ‘half-life’ of these
reviews is significantly affected by this explosive accumulation
of data and discourages potential authors to
undertake this (thankless) task. I am therefore particularly
pleased that a number of colleagues have committed
themselves to write these contributions for this
issue, which cover the most relevant aspects of circadian
rhythmicity in different model systems
Description of a new species of Miroculis Edmunds, 1963 (Ephemeroptera: Leptophlebiidae) from Brazil
No full textCosta, Sabrina Santos, Mariano, Rodolfo (2013): Description of a new species of Miroculis Edmunds, 1963 (Ephemeroptera: Leptophlebiidae) from Brazil. Zootaxa 3599 (5): 495-498, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3599.5.
Del amor hacia el desamor: Cartas de Eunice Odio a Rodolfo
No full textEl libro Cartas de Eunice Odio a Rodolfo, editado por el doctor Jorge Chen Sham, y publicado por la Editorial de la Universidad de Costa Rica, en este año de 2017, hace una revisión de la historia de amor entre la afamada poeta Eunice Odio y el pintor Rodolfo Zanabria, y mediante esta intromisión nos hacemos partícipes, al mismo tiempo, de quién era realmente esta gran escritora costarricense.</jats:p
When population and evolutionary genetics met behaviour
Get PDFIn this review, we analyse the impact of a population and evolutionary genetics approach on the study of insect behaviour. Our attention is focused on the model organism Drosophila melanogaster and several other insect spe-cies. In particular, we explore the relationship between rhythmic behaviours and the molecular evolution of clock and ion channel genes
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