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Can Capital Punishment Survive if Black Lives Matter? [PDF]

, 2021
Drawing upon empirical studies of racial discrimination dating back to the 1940’s, the Movement for Black Lives platform calls for the abolition of capital punishment. Our purpose here is to defend the Movement’s call for death penalty abolition in terms
Cholbi, Michael, Madva, Alex
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Announcement effects of health policy reforms : evidence from the abolition of Austria’s baby bonus [PDF]

, 2013
Erworben im Rahmen der Schweizer Nationallizenzen (http://www.nationallizenzen.ch)We analyze the short-run fertility and health effects resulting from the early announcement of the abolition of the Austrian baby bonus in January 1997.
Brunner, Beatrice, Kuhn, Andreas
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Gender-Based Violence, Law Reform, and the Criminalization of Survivors of Violence

International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2021
Criminalization is the primary societal response to intimate partner violence in the US. This reliance on criminal legal system interventions ignores several unintended consequences. One of the serious unintended consequences of criminalization — perhaps
Leigh Goodmark
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Black Lives Matter and the Call for Death Penalty Abolition [PDF]

, 2018
The Black Lives Matter movement has called for the abolition of capital punishment in response to what it calls “the war against Black people” and “Black communities.” This article defends the two central contentions in the movement’s abolitionist stance:
Cholbi, Michael, Madva, Alex
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Public Opinion and the Abolition or Retention of the Death Penalty Why is the United States Different? [PDF]

, 2014
What explains the difference between the United States and the many other countries that have abolished capital punishment? Because the United States and many other nations that have abolished the death penalty are democracies, there seems to be an ...
Beale, Sara Sun
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Ambivalent Abolitionism in the 1920s: New South Wales, Australia

International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2022
In the former penal colony of New South Wales (NSW), a Labor government attempted what its counterpart in Queensland had achieved in 1922: the abolition of the death penalty.
Carolyn Strange
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Evangelicals and Abolitionist Methodologies

Religions, 2022
The development of the primarily women-of-color-led movement for transformative justice has also shed light on the fact that abolition requires not just the transformation of social relations and place, but the transformations of subjectivity itself ...
Andrea Smith
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From Tactical Utility to Human Cost: The Normative Shift in the Prohibition of Combatant Suffering

Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament
This article examines the evolving interpretation of the principle prohibiting superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering in international humanitarian law (IHL) applicable to combatants.
Jaroslav Krasny
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Rome and Roman law in English antislavery literature and judicial decisions

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis Folia Iuridica, 2020
The abolition of slavery by modern states was an important step towards the recognition of what is now known as human rights. The British Empire and its cradle, England, were the leading entities responsible for the support of the international trade ...
Łukasz Jan Korporowicz
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Strengthening the Biological Weapons Convention: Transparency and Denial as Complementary Approaches

Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament
The Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) remains a cornerstone of international disarmament but faces persistent challenges due to the absence of a verification regime and the dual-use nature of biological research.
Jaroslav Krasny
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