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A Philosophical and Comparative Legal Analysis of Amnesty: Lessons from Indonesia and the United States

open access: yesPattimura Legal Journal
Introduction: Amnesty occupies an uneasy position within contemporary legal systems, situated between the ideals of justice, mercy, and constitutional authority.
Dwi Novantoro   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Amnesty [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The topic of amnesty is a vital one in transitional justice scholarship. As a political tool it has historically provided the state the means to suppress dissent, compromise with its enemies, as well as to protect its own state agents implicated in crimes. Amnesty originates from the Greek word amnestia, which means ‘forgetfulness’ or ‘oblivion’.
openaire   +2 more sources

Unprincipled Principals in the Accountability Chain: Autonomy and Political Control Within Tax Administration in a Developing Country Context

open access: yesFinancial Accountability &Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT SDG 16 emphasizes the need for accountable institutions, often based on the assumption that public officials are accountable to politicians, who in turn are accountable to citizens. However, in many developing countries, neopatrimonial governance can weaken this accountability chain, as politicians themselves may act as “unprincipled ...
Edidiong Bassey, Emer Mulligan
wiley   +1 more source

Amnestie -! Amnestie -!

open access: yes, 2012
Source: Kurt Tucholsky: Gesammelte Werke in zehn Bänden. Herausgegeben von Mary Gerold-Tucholsky und Fritz J. Raddatz, Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt Verlag, 1975.
openaire   +1 more source

Family dynamics and death row: A dual‐theory approach

open access: yesFamily Relations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective This study investigates how the incarceration and death sentence of a loved one impact family dynamics in Malaysia, drawing on restorative justice and family systems theories. Background Despite the global movement toward abolishing the death penalty, Malaysia continues to impose discretionary death sentences for crimes such as ...
Reyhaneh Bagheri
wiley   +1 more source

Before It Was ‘New’: A Neglected History of Lived Experience–Led Criminal Justice

open access: yesThe Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A growing range of criminal justice initiatives are being shaped and delivered by people with lived experience, including peer mentoring, prisoner councils and policy advocacy roles. While often seen as recent innovations, we reveal a deeper, largely unacknowledged history dating back to at least the 19th century.
Gillian Buck   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Absent Europe: Civic Protest and the Erosion of EU Symbolism in Serbia

open access: yesJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyses the strategic management of European Union (EU) references in Serbia's 2024–2025 student mobilisation. Drawing on original fieldwork and 18 semi‐structured interviews, the article integrates framing theory with the Discourse‐Historical Approach to reconstruct how EU‐related meanings were produced and operationalised.
Anna Seliverstova
wiley   +1 more source

An Endogenous ‘Refugee Crisis’: Exploring Frame Drain and Emerging Conflicts in Migration Politics

open access: yesJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Migration governance in Europe is shaped by contesting frames that reflect deeper tensions between security, humanitarianism and sovereignty. This article traces how these frames evolve over time and how the so‐called refugee ‘crisis’ reconfigures framing dynamics and actor relations between 2000 and 2020. Rather than treating the crisis as an
Ece Özlem Atikcan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Les silences du droit pénal : une mécanique du chaos ?

open access: yesCriminocorpus
As a result of the various amnesty laws passed in Algeria, criminal law has been particularly silent on colonial crimes. However, the amnesty instituted at the end of the Algerian war is not an amnesty like any other, either in its implementation or in ...
Djoheur Zerouki
doaj   +1 more source

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