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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

Applying a causal biopsychosocial model to guide medicine and psychiatry fifty years after Engel. [PDF]

Commun Med (Lond)
von Känel R.
europepmc   +1 more source

How Does Higher Education Influence Attitudes Towards Muslims? Examining Mechanisms That Reduce Prejudice Within UK Universities

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the relationship between encounters with religious diversity and the perspectives people form about Muslims. Its empirical focus is individuals studying at UK universities. Previous research suggests Muslims are amongst those most subject to negative prejudice in the UK, this being structured around racial or ethnic ...
Tom Fryer, Mathew Guest, Kristin Aune, Lucy Peacock   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Intersection of Neuroscience and Criminology: Role of Brain Mapping in Addressing Criminal Behavior by Nepal Police. [PDF]

JNMA J Nepal Med Assoc
Rajbhandari B, Regmi S, Dahal K, Shrestha S.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Criminal Records as Classification Situations

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Marion Fourcade and Kieran Healy developed the notion of “classification situations” to describe how ordinal schema that sort and rank individuals, like credit scores, are used to differentiate opportunities, prices, and services in ways that structure life chances while masking inequality as meritocratic.
Lindsay Bing, Sarah Esther Lageson
wiley   +1 more source

Trajectory of suicide among Indian children and adolescents: a pooled analysis of national data from 1995 to 2021. [PDF]

Child Adolesc Psychiatry Ment Health
Jena S, Swain PK, Senapati RE, Acharya SK.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Mysterious Stranger and Modern Enchantment

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sociological accounts of modernity have long emphasized rationalization, alienation, and the attenuation of affective intensity. While these diagnoses capture crucial dynamics of modern social order, they leave underexplored a persistent and generative dimension of social life: enchantment.
Dmitry Kurakin
wiley   +1 more source

Valorizing Erasure: Imperial Knowledge Production in Anglo‐American Coverage of Chad's ‘Toyota War’

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How does imperial knowledge production operate when Western media coverage of a Global South subject is predominantly admiring instead of hostile? This article addresses that question through critical discourse analysis of sixty‐three Anglo‐American news articles covering the Chad‐Libya conflict of the 1980s, the ‘Toyota War’.
Harmata Aboubakar
wiley   +1 more source

An Overdose Forecasting Dashboard for Local Harm-Reduction Response. [PDF]

Health Promot Pract
Krieger M, Yedinak J, Duong E, Macmadu A, Skinner A, Allen B, Pratty C, Ahern J, Cerdá M, Marshall BDL.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source