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Capital of Life in Death: How Bereaved Individuals Mobilise Cultural and Social Capital in UK Death Administration

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper uses Bourdieu's concepts of cultural and social capital to critically examine death administration in the UK. Death administration relates to a set of tasks that bereaved individuals (usually a family member) must complete when someone dies‐such as probate, asset management and funeral planning. It is a hidden form of administration
Laura Towers, Kate Reed
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Rhode Island Report on the Judiciary 1973 [PDF]

, 1973
This is the second annual report produced by the Office of the State Court Administrator. The first report, published in 1973, reviewed the progress made in the administration of the Rhode Island Court System in the period 1969-1972. This report contains

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“This is everyone's issue”: Policy entrepreneurs, issue framing, and coalition building in the passage of automatic criminal record expungement

Criminology &Public Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary Since 2018, at least 12 U.S. states have introduced policies to expunge certain eligible arrest and criminal conviction records through automated or algorithmic means. Drawing on interviews with governmental representatives and community stakeholders, this paper identifies strategies used to pass this legislation in ...
Elsa Y. Chen, Sarah E. Lageson, Ericka B. Adams   +2 more
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How Auditors Respond to Resignations of Supervisory Board Members

Accounting &Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using manually verified supervisory board (hereafter, SB) resignation data from China spanning the period 2009–2020, our study finds a positive relationship between audit fees and SB resignations. Additionally, the positive relationship between audit fees and SB resignations is amplified when resignations signal a heightened level of ...
Xinming Liu, Xiaoqiao Zhu
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Alaska Trial Court Case Filing Statistics, 2005–2012 [PDF]

, 2013
This fact sheet describe case filings, caseloads, and types of cases filed in Alaska’s trial courts (Superior Court and District Court) during fiscal years (FY) 2005–2012. Data were extracted from Alaska Court System annual statistical reports.
Fortson, Ryan, Myrstol, Brad A.
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Caste criminalisation in South India and permanent migration to Fiji, 1903–1927

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Does the official criminalisation of a group lead to permanent out‐migration? In the early 20th century, British officials in south India designated multiple castes as inherently criminal under the Criminal Tribes Act (CTA). The CTA required police registration and could force entire groups into special settlements.
Alexander Persaud
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What did the Royal Almoner do in Britain and Ireland, c.1450-1700? [PDF]

, 2010
The late medieval and early modern royal almoner for England and Wales was an important figure, a senior cleric best documented as a court preacher who was the crown’s religious and moral face; prominent holders included Wolsey and Lancelot Andrewes. The
Houston, Robert (Rab)
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Short Stories of Refugeedom: Encounters between Refugees, UNHCR, and the Australian Government, 1951–1975

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
This article draws upon individual confidential case files compiled by the UN Office for Refugees (UNHCR) between 1951 and 1975 to examine its response to refugees who requested protection and to analyse policy and practice in Australia as a country of resettlement.
Peter Gatrell
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Reconstituting Imagined Communities of Whiteness Through Racial Banishment: The Proposed Deportation Centre at Lindholm and the “Ghetto Law” in Denmark

Antipode, EarlyView.
Abstract This article links the proposal to establish a deportation centre on the island of Lindholm off the coast of Zealand, Denmark, and its extensive media coverage, with the implementation and media portrayal of the “Ghetto Law” aimed at neighbourhoods of racialised Danish citizens.
Erling Björgvinsson
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On the forms of borderwork in public institutions: Bordering social security through conditions and tests

Area, EarlyView.
Short Abstract Welfare and border governance have converged in the UK over recent decades. The forms that borderwork takes within UK social security—conditions and tests—shape everyday encounters in the bureaucratic field. We argue that conditions mean that borderwork both exceeds and persists, whereas tests function to ensure that borderwork ...
Kathryn Cassidy, Gill Davidson
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