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incapacitate

(ĭn″kă-păs′ĭ-tāt)
Being made incapable of some function, act or strength. This may be purely physical or intellectual or both.
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Detailing how RCMP practices in project SITKA are grounded in broader sociological accounts of protest policing, the case study reveals a fusion of risk management techniques with growing databank capacities, and provides a glimpse at contemporary practices of strategic incapacitation against Indigenous movements in Canada.
Strategic Incapacitation of Indigenous Dissent: Crowd Theories, Risk Management, and Settler Colonial Policing
To measure the true deterrent effect of the three strikes law it is important to control for the decreases in crime that result from incapacitation. Incarceration rates at the county level are used to measure the expected incapacitation effects of prison.
California's three strikes law revisited: assessing the long-term effects of the law
The book is an unflinching exploration of how total incapacitation has become the new common sense in California and mass incarceration the state's thoroughly inhumane endgame.
Knowing about the atrocities of Mass Incarceration
There appears to be some weight behind the incapacitation issue.
In estate planning limbo: Ownership of the New Orleans Saints
Those are likely psychological stops rather than physical incapacitations.
Defensive carry is it caliber or equipment
Selective incapacitation assumes that only a small percent of sentenced prisoners are committing large numbers of crimes per year.
How much time should prisoners serve?
The incapacitation of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, in hospital Tuesday after reports of suffering a stroke, comes at a crucial time for the country, which has witnessed a surge in violence in the runup to the one-year anniversary of the departure of the last American troops.
National loss
Paper targets must be progressive in that they offer different angles, as well as harder shots, to achieve incapacitation.
Targeting targets: focus on what you train on to get better results on the street
The final section, Corrections as Social Control, begins by providing readers with an overview of the history of punishment and corrections and reviews the various philosophies that underlie America's correctional system, including retribution, deterrence, incapacitation and re-form/rehabilitation.
Crime and Justice in America: An Introduction to Criminal Justice
The commission members arrived at an agreement on such issues as the candidacy for the presidency of the republic, the election of the president, the delegation of powers in case of incapacitation, the modes of electing a new president in case of total incapacitation and the issue of the seat of the presidency of the republic and modes for non-confidence motion.
Divergences on provisional public authorities' organisation (commission)
He said that "Syria is no Libya" and he explained that by saying that Russia and China are opposed to military interference in Syria and that their position will remain unchanged, and that the European economic incapacitation will prevent the countries of the European Union from spending any additional money on an adventure in Syria.
Who in Syria is Seeking External Support?
The inquest at Newcastle Crown Court will hear evidence from an expert on electrical injury who is set to give evidence on whether he could have suffered a moment of "neuromuscular incapacitation" which caused him to shoot himself involuntarily.
Raoul Moat inquest begins

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