Patrick Ball
Biographic Data
| ID | 3878606 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patrick Ball |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patrick |
| FAMILY NAME | Ball |
| SIGNATURE | BALL P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Human Rights Watch |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7661-6264 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 166 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Gambling and Elizabethan Gentlemen
Before the mid-seventeenth century when a developing understanding of probability transformed gambling, English gaming took place in the community rather than in dedicated institutions like casinos and so represented and interacted with more general social behavior. Different communities gambled differently; they had different status under the law. This article considers gentlemen's gambling, arguing that in the absence of other constraints, noti…
Reality and risk
We refute S. Rendón’s recent criticism of the 2003 Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) conflict mortality study. We first show that his most important result, an alternative estimate of the mortality due to the Maoist guerrillas of Shining Path ( Sendero Luminoso ), is lower than existing observed data and is therefore impossible. We then analyze his statistical approach and find that it is affected by a subtle form of selection bi…
Civilian killings and disappearances during civil war in El Salvador (1980-1992)
Debate over the civilian toll of El Salvadorâ s civil war (1980â 1992) raged throughout the conï¬ ict and its aftermath. Apologists for the Salvadoran regime claimed no more than 20,000 had died, while some activists placed the toll at 100,000 or more. But no
The Limits of Observation for Understanding Mass Violence
Quantitative analyses have the potential to contribute to transitional justice mechanisms, via empirical evidence supporting the memory of victims, allocating proportional responsibility among perpetrators, determining legal responsibility, and supporting historical memory and clarity. However, most data available in transitional justice settings are incomplete. Conducting quantitative analyses relying solely on what is observable and knowable le…
On The Quantification Of Horror
Measuring Elusive Populations with Bayesian Model Averaging for Multiple Systems Estimation
Collecting data for the analysis of past human rights violations is fraught with challenges. For example, individuals from or about whom data should be collected may be displaced, missing, or dead. Some reports of acts may be easier to find than others, and as a result, datasets will be biased toward those cases. These challenges must be overcome in order to create effective official policy for violence mitigation and prevention. This relies on s…
What is health anyway? Perceptions and experiences of health and health care from socio-economically disadvantaged rural residents
Health and well being is a human right but one which is experienced differently in different social circumstances. The divide between rich and poor in Australia is starkly apparent in health status statistics; the poorest Australians have the poorest health, and many live in rural Australia. However, little is known about financially deprived rural citizen's perceptions of their own health and their expectations of health care services. Explorato…
Views to a Kill
To investigate the implications of source selection, three different sources regarding Guatemalan state terror are compared: newspapers, human rights documents, and interviews with eyewitnesses. Results show that each source pays attention to diverse types and aspects of repression in line with the objectives of the observer, the characteristics of the repressive events, and the overall political context within which events take place. Who is con…
The Truth of Truth Commissions
Human Rights Quarterly - Volume 23, Number 1, February 2001
Arguments and Action in the Life of a Social Problem
Arguments and Action in the Life of a Social Problem: A Case Study of "Overpopulation" 1946-1990 Get access John R. Wilmoth, John R. Wilmoth Please send correspondence to the first author at: Department of Demography, University of California, Berkeley CA 94720-2120. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Patrick Ball Patrick Ball Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scho…
The Population Debate in American Popular Magazines, 1946-90
We have undertaken an extensive review of the American popular literature on population for two reasons. First, a survey of popular perspectives on population change serves as a vehicle for analyzing the structure of the arguments in the larger debate on the issue of population increase. Compared with the academic literature, the popular discussion places greater emphasis on reasons for viewing population growth with alarm or complacency, rather …
The Population Debate in American Popular Magazines, 1946-90
We have undertaken an extensive review of the American popular literature on population for two reasons. First, a survey of popular perspectives on population change serves as a vehicle for analyzing the structure of the arguments in the larger debate on the issue of population increase. Compared with the academic literature, the popular discussion places greater emphasis on reasons for viewing population growth with alarm or complacency, rather …
Views to a Kill
To investigate the implications of source selection, three different sources regarding Guatemalan state terror are compared: newspapers, human rights documents, and interviews with eyewitnesses. Results show that each source pays attention to diverse types and aspects of repression in line with the objectives of the observer, the characteristics of the repressive events, and the overall political context within which events take place. Who is con…
The Population Debate in American Popular Magazines, 1946-90
We have undertaken an extensive review of the American popular literature on population for two reasons. First, a survey of popular perspectives on population change serves as a vehicle for analyzing the structure of the arguments in the larger debate on the issue of population increase. Compared with the academic literature, the popular discussion places greater emphasis on reasons for viewing population growth with alarm or complacency, rather …
Arguments and Action in the Life of a Social Problem
Arguments and Action in the Life of a Social Problem: A Case Study of "Overpopulation" 1946-1990 Get access John R. Wilmoth, John R. Wilmoth Please send correspondence to the first author at: Department of Demography, University of California, Berkeley CA 94720-2120. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Patrick Ball Patrick Ball Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scho…
Civilian killings and disappearances during civil war in El Salvador (1980-1992)
Debate over the civilian toll of El Salvadorâ s civil war (1980â 1992) raged throughout the conï¬ ict and its aftermath. Apologists for the Salvadoran regime claimed no more than 20,000 had died, while some activists placed the toll at 100,000 or more. But no
Measuring Elusive Populations with Bayesian Model Averaging for Multiple Systems Estimation
Collecting data for the analysis of past human rights violations is fraught with challenges. For example, individuals from or about whom data should be collected may be displaced, missing, or dead. Some reports of acts may be easier to find than others, and as a result, datasets will be biased toward those cases. These challenges must be overcome in order to create effective official policy for violence mitigation and prevention. This relies on s…
The Limits of Observation for Understanding Mass Violence
Quantitative analyses have the potential to contribute to transitional justice mechanisms, via empirical evidence supporting the memory of victims, allocating proportional responsibility among perpetrators, determining legal responsibility, and supporting historical memory and clarity. However, most data available in transitional justice settings are incomplete. Conducting quantitative analyses relying solely on what is observable and knowable le…
What is health anyway? Perceptions and experiences of health and health care from socio-economically disadvantaged rural residents
Health and well being is a human right but one which is experienced differently in different social circumstances. The divide between rich and poor in Australia is starkly apparent in health status statistics; the poorest Australians have the poorest health, and many live in rural Australia. However, little is known about financially deprived rural citizen's perceptions of their own health and their expectations of health care services. Explorato…
Gambling and Elizabethan Gentlemen
Before the mid-seventeenth century when a developing understanding of probability transformed gambling, English gaming took place in the community rather than in dedicated institutions like casinos and so represented and interacted with more general social behavior. Different communities gambled differently; they had different status under the law. This article considers gentlemen's gambling, arguing that in the absence of other constraints, noti…
Reality and risk
We refute S. Rendón’s recent criticism of the 2003 Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) conflict mortality study. We first show that his most important result, an alternative estimate of the mortality due to the Maoist guerrillas of Shining Path ( Sendero Luminoso ), is lower than existing observed data and is therefore impossible. We then analyze his statistical approach and find that it is affected by a subtle form of selection bi…
The Population Debate in American Popular Magazines, 1946-90
We have undertaken an extensive review of the American popular literature on population for two reasons. First, a survey of popular perspectives on population change serves as a vehicle for analyzing the structure of the arguments in the larger debate on the issue of population increase. Compared with the academic literature, the popular discussion places greater emphasis on reasons for viewing population growth with alarm or complacency, rather …
The Population Debate in American Popular Magazines, 1946-90
We have undertaken an extensive review of the American popular literature on population for two reasons. First, a survey of popular perspectives on population change serves as a vehicle for analyzing the structure of the arguments in the larger debate on the issue of population increase. Compared with the academic literature, the popular discussion places greater emphasis on reasons for viewing population growth with alarm or complacency, rather …
Arguments and Action in the Life of a Social Problem
Arguments and Action in the Life of a Social Problem: A Case Study of "Overpopulation" 1946-1990 Get access John R. Wilmoth, John R. Wilmoth Please send correspondence to the first author at: Department of Demography, University of California, Berkeley CA 94720-2120. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Patrick Ball Patrick Ball Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scho…
The Truth of Truth Commissions
Human Rights Quarterly - Volume 23, Number 1, February 2001
Views to a Kill
To investigate the implications of source selection, three different sources regarding Guatemalan state terror are compared: newspapers, human rights documents, and interviews with eyewitnesses. Results show that each source pays attention to diverse types and aspects of repression in line with the objectives of the observer, the characteristics of the repressive events, and the overall political context within which events take place. Who is con…
On The Quantification Of Horror
Measuring Elusive Populations with Bayesian Model Averaging for Multiple Systems Estimation
Collecting data for the analysis of past human rights violations is fraught with challenges. For example, individuals from or about whom data should be collected may be displaced, missing, or dead. Some reports of acts may be easier to find than others, and as a result, datasets will be biased toward those cases. These challenges must be overcome in order to create effective official policy for violence mitigation and prevention. This relies on s…
What is health anyway? Perceptions and experiences of health and health care from socio-economically disadvantaged rural residents
Health and well being is a human right but one which is experienced differently in different social circumstances. The divide between rich and poor in Australia is starkly apparent in health status statistics; the poorest Australians have the poorest health, and many live in rural Australia. However, little is known about financially deprived rural citizen's perceptions of their own health and their expectations of health care services. Explorato…
The Limits of Observation for Understanding Mass Violence
Quantitative analyses have the potential to contribute to transitional justice mechanisms, via empirical evidence supporting the memory of victims, allocating proportional responsibility among perpetrators, determining legal responsibility, and supporting historical memory and clarity. However, most data available in transitional justice settings are incomplete. Conducting quantitative analyses relying solely on what is observable and knowable le…
Reality and risk
We refute S. Rendón’s recent criticism of the 2003 Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) conflict mortality study. We first show that his most important result, an alternative estimate of the mortality due to the Maoist guerrillas of Shining Path ( Sendero Luminoso ), is lower than existing observed data and is therefore impossible. We then analyze his statistical approach and find that it is affected by a subtle form of selection bi…
Civilian killings and disappearances during civil war in El Salvador (1980-1992)
Debate over the civilian toll of El Salvadorâ s civil war (1980â 1992) raged throughout the conï¬ ict and its aftermath. Apologists for the Salvadoran regime claimed no more than 20,000 had died, while some activists placed the toll at 100,000 or more. But no
Gambling and Elizabethan Gentlemen
Before the mid-seventeenth century when a developing understanding of probability transformed gambling, English gaming took place in the community rather than in dedicated institutions like casinos and so represented and interacted with more general social behavior. Different communities gambled differently; they had different status under the law. This article considers gentlemen's gambling, arguing that in the absence of other constraints, noti…
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