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CARE AND CONTROL IN URBAN BRAZIL: The Subaltern Archive of Portarias
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Security infrastructures permeate everyday life in Brazilian cities. Although security guards and doormen play an important and omnipresent role as social and technological mediators, their practices and perceptions have received little attention.
Tilmann Heil, Susana Durão
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Automatism is never a defence [PDF]
, 2014 The central aim of this article is to set out and justify the contention that automatism is never a defence, not even exceptionally. Where D is not at fault for her lack of voluntariness, the term ‘automatism’ is simply a shorthand explanation that D ...
Child, John, Reed, Alan
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In the last several years, disaster insurance programs around the world have experienced disruptions that many observers interpret to be a primary symptom of “climate crisis” (Bittle 2024). Governments have responded to these disruptions through disjointed and at times contradictory measures: they treat disasters, alternately, as “Acts of God”
Stephen J. Collier
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Unes Journal of Swara Justisia, 2019 This corporate liability is made possible through the doctrine of strict liability which in this doctrine of criminal responsibility can be charged to the perpetrator of a criminal offense concerned with no need to be proved wrong (intentional ...
Surya Khamisli
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Joint criminal enterprise and the control theory: High-level leaders as principals of crime
, 2016 This paper explores the nature of principal liability in international criminal law. In prosecuting high-level leaders most responsible for crimes, both the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal ...
Sargent, Angela
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Criminal liability of medical professionals in the São Paulo State Court of Appeals. [PDF]
Einstein (Sao Paulo), 2018 Braga IFA +4 more
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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 +2 more
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Prosecutorial Ethics in Retrospect [PDF]
, 2017 This essay examines the ethical regulation of prosecutors over the past three decades. The topic is important from the perspective of criminal justice, no less than legal ethics, because prosecutors are centrally responsible for administering the ...
Green, Bruce A.
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Journal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper studies how partisan alignment between city leaders and state governors shapes information processing and bond pricing in the municipal bond market. Using a novel data set on 1,045 U.S. cities from 2005 to 2019, we show that cities with the same political affiliation as the state governor face 9 basis points lower borrowing costs ...
RAMONA DAGOSTINO, ANYA NAKHMURINA
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Liability to International Prosecution: The Nature of Universal Jurisdiction [PDF]
, 2017 The paper considers the proper method for theorizing about criminal jurisdiction. It challenges a received understanding of how to substantiate the right to punish, and articulates an alternative account of how that theoretical task is properly ...
Reeves, Anthony
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