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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

Somebody's going to emergency, somebody's going to jail: pre-booking diversion and officer discretion. [PDF]

Health Justice
McLean K, Suiter E, Shneibaum N, Miller BL.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Opportunities and Alliances: The Relational Dynamics of Criminal Collusion in Latin America

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Mexico and judicial wiretap analysis in Argentina, this paper shows that collusion between state actors and violent non‐state actors operates through fluid and competitive relational networks rather than stable hierarchies or fixed institutional arrangements.
Eldad J. Levy, Javier Auyero
wiley   +1 more source

The influence of extreme rainfall on crime: Spatiotemporal dynamics in Hunan Province, China. [PDF]

PLoS One
Zhang D, Xiao Y, Han Y, Li T, Li X, Chen X, Fang J, Zhong P, Ning Z.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Comparative Framing From Below: How Young People in Three Cities Interpret Cyber Dating Abuse by Drawing Boundaries Between Love, Harm, and Justice

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As digital technologies become embedded in everyday life, interpersonal violence increasingly takes place in cyberspace. Existing studies have focused on how states, experts, and the media define what counts as cyber violence and abuse. Less attention has been paid to how ordinary people interpret and contest these definitions and how their ...
Susanne Y. P. Choi, Tangi P. C. Yip, Hsiu‐Hua Shen, Xiying Wang, Lynne Y. Nakano   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Criminal Responsibility in Individuals with Gambling Disorder in Brazil. [PDF]

J Gambl Stud
Roza TH, Spritzer DT, Madruga CS, Kessler FHP, de Borba Telles LE.   +4 more
europepmc   +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

Impact of intelligence on social cognition in mentally disordered offenders: preliminary evidence in schizophrenia and personality disorders. [PDF]

Front Psychol
Ioannidis K, Magnenat L, Herrmann FR, Boulaguiem Y, Espinosa L, Giannakopoulos P, Weber K.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Monitoring Quality of Mafia‐Connected Accountants

Journal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We investigate the monitoring quality of accountants with ties to the Mafia in their role as auditors for “clean” firms—those with no known ties to organized crime. Using a proprietary government database, we identify Italian firms with alleged ties to the Mafia through their executives, directors, or shareholders.
Pietro A. Bianchi, Jere R. Francis, Antonio Marra, Nicola Pecchiari   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Prevalence of pedophilia in a forensic psychiatric population in Switzerland: a comparative study of contact vs non-contact and pedophilic vs non-pedophilic offenders. [PDF]

Front Psychiatry
Anselmetti C, Renouard C, Murdocco M, Jantzi C.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source