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What Is Justice? Reflections on the Criminal Justice System in Brazil

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay explores the possibility of justice for the wretched of the earth. Using escrevivência (writing the experience/existence) and drawing on the theoretical insights and political praxis of the Assessoria Popular Maria Felipa (APMF, Maria Felipa Advocacy Group)—a Brazilian abolitionist organization led by Black activists—we analyze how ...
Fernanda Oliveira   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Judicial Review Before \u3ci\u3eMarbury\u3c/i\u3e [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
While scholars have long probed the original understanding of judicial review and the early judicial review case law, this article presents a study of the judicial review case law in the United States before Marbury v.
Treanor, William Michael
core   +1 more source

The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
wiley   +1 more source

Effectiveness of Individual Constitutional Complaints during Legal Proceedings before The Common Courts [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Constitutional Law, 2019
The current Civil Procedure Code of Georgia does not determine the courts’ competency or their obligation to suspend legal proceedings whenever the Constitutional Court is considering the constitutionality of the law applicable to the said legal ...
Salome Samkharadze
doaj  

The Supreme Court of Canada interprets the fitness to stand trial test in R v. Bharwani

open access: yesJournal of Forensic Sciences, EarlyView.
Abstract At the core of the common law, rooted in fairness, is the principle that an accused must be “fit” or “competent” to answer charges pursued by the state. Fitness rules vary considerably across jurisdictions but generally share the requirement that the accused be able to actively participate in the conduct of their defense.
Dennis Curry, Jason Quinn
wiley   +1 more source

Berkemer Revisited: Uncovering the Middle Ground Between Miranda and the New Terry [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Over the past twenty-five years, appellate courts have significantly expanded the scope of police authority to stop and frisk potential suspects without probable cause, a power originally granted to law enforcement by the Supreme Court in Terry v. Ohio.
Roth, Michael J.
core   +1 more source

How Mexican judicial reforms may have fueled crime: Arrest trends and trust erosion

open access: yesCriminology &Public Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Mexico rolled out state‐led criminal justice reforms between 2000 and 2017 to modernize procedures and improve rule of law. Whether these changes reduced violent crime—especially in cartel‐affected areas—remains uncertain. Aims Estimate the impact of reform implementation on homicides and arrests, and assess mechanisms related to ...
Catalina Amuedo‐Dorantes   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

American model of constitutional dialogue: in the cases of Aikhin and Antilef before the Constitutional Court of Chile

open access: yesАналітично-порівняльне правознавство
For a long time, public law was predominantly subordinated to the norms established by national legislation, and therefore did not want to be studied in comparative jurisprudence, as the dominant importance of law within legocentric models made public ...
A. V. Vatamaniuk
doaj   +1 more source

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