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THE LEGITIMACY TRAP: Street Vending Heterogeneity and Selective Enforcement in San Francisco
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Literature on street vending regulation often emphasizes the challenges in enforcing legal frameworks due to unclear laws or insufficient state capacity. However, it tends to overlook diversity among vendors themselves along crucial parameters such as spatial location, community ties and processes of goods procurement.
Irene Farah
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On the functional delimitation of the powers of the prosecutor in criminal proceedings
Jus StrictumThe paper studies the functional delimitation of the powers of the prosecutor in criminal proceedings, including supervision over preliminary investigation bodies, criminal prosecution (formation and maintenance of public prosecution), and defense of ...
Kristina A. Korchagina
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article reconsiders the relationship between visibility and politicization. Drawing on empirical evidence from urban mobilization campaigns across Russia, we counter the existing literature on theories of the post‐political and liminality by identifying four dimensions of visibility—publicity in urban space, objects of urban contestation,
Valeria Rumiantseva, Liubov Chernysheva
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, 2019 The presented article discusses discretionary criminal prosecution as innovation in modern Georgian criminal procedural legislation. Legal aspects of criminal prosecution, its procedural regulation and practical implementation issues are discussed in the
Abashidze, Givi
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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 +2 more
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Criminal Justice in the 21st Century: Allegheny County Prosecution and Defense [PDF]
, 2016 Criminal Justice in the 21st Century: Allegheny County Prosecution and Defense examines the roles of prosecution and defense nationally and within the county including the offices of the district attorney and public defender.
Thieman, Frederick W. +11 more
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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
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Conditional discontinuance of criminal prosecution [PDF]
, 2018 This master thesis concerns itself with the alternative procedural measure, the institute of conditional discontinuance of criminal prosecution and some of its relating issues. Conditional discontinuance of criminal prosecution is a type of diversion. It
Kábrtová, Alexandra
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Temporary postponement of criminal prosecution [PDF]
, 2020 Temporary postponement of criminal prosecution Abstract The diploma thesis deals with the procedural institute of temporary postponement of criminal prosecution, while providing a complete analysis of situations in which individual forms of this ...
Pešková, Kateřina
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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
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