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THE VIOLENCE OF FULL COST RECOVERY: Financing Water Infrastructure, and the History and Future of Perpetual Crisis in Mombasa

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Foregrounding the role of finance, this article examines the historical production and future trajectory of the urban water crisis in Mombasa. Drawing on archival research and contemporary fieldwork, it traces how principles of full cost recovery—institutionalized during the colonial period and later reworked through postcolonial ...
Joe Williams
wiley   +1 more source

Perceptions of the decriminalisation of suicidal attempts among mental health service users in Ghana: a qualitative study. [PDF]

BMC Psychiatry
Quarshie C, Daliri DB, Dei-Asamoa R, Osei-Sekyereh J, Adjei D, Osei A.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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

The 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, Isabela Corby, Juliana Góes   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

'What are you in for?' The neglected role of the offence in prison sociology. [PDF]

Incarceration
Jarman B, Ievins A, Crewe B.
europepmc   +1 more source

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

The 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

Affirmative Action in Criminal Justice. [PDF]

Oxf J Leg Stud
Ewing B.
europepmc   +1 more source

Crime and Punishment in Latin America

Latin American Research Review
Enrique Desmond Arias
doaj   +1 more source

Challenges of the Application of Emerging Neuroscience Technologies in Courts. [PDF]

Avicenna J Med Biotechnol
Bakhtiary H, Eslamitabar S, Shiarzian S, Lame E.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Why do Public Debates Escalate? Trigger Points and the Moral Dynamics of “Hot Politics”

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Escalating, emotionally charged, and moralized forms of controversy are a central feature of contemporary politics. Our study develops a framework for understanding how political debates between ordinary citizens become heated; why certain issues provoke particularly strong emotions; and how this affective potential is weaponized by ...
Linus Westheuser, Thomas Lux, Steffen Mau   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Intergenerational transmission of violence in Bangladesh: Mediated through maternal attitudes towards intimate partner violence, disciplinary beliefs, and life satisfaction. [PDF]

PLoS One
Fahim AU, Aboni A, Munira S, Toosty NT.
europepmc   +1 more source