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Forensic medical reporting of non-fatal injuries in criminal cases in the Netherlands: a mixed-methods analysis of regional practices. [PDF]

open access: yesInt J Legal Med
Goudswaard ML   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Privilege Versus Right: Vigilantism Against Israel's Palestinian Citizens

open access: yesSociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article addresses three core questions: What is the social origin of vigilantism? How do vigilantes justify extra‐legal violence and intimidation? What are vigilantism's long‐term effects? The analysis focuses on a period in which Israel's Palestinian‐Arab citizens increased their access to legal rights, social mobility, spatial ...
Gershon Shafir, Beatrice Waterhouse
wiley   +1 more source

Acknowledging the past in the post‐truth era: Witch‐hunts, lawfare and the veterans’ amnesty in Northern Ireland

open access: yesJournal of Law and Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Using the amnesty introduced by the Boris Johnson government designed to protect British army veterans who served in Northern Ireland as a case study, this article examines the intersection between law, politics and the legacy of conflict. The article first offers an account of the amnesty's genesis and traces the evolution and deployment of ...
KIERAN MCEVOY
wiley   +1 more source

From agnosis to accidental activism: Infinite regress and the Post Office Scandal

open access: yesJournal of Law and Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the lived experiences of victims/survivors affected by the UK Post Office Scandal, drawing on 28 in‐depth interviews and critical legal analysis. It uses the concept of ‘accidental activism’ to explore how victims, initially isolated and disempowered, became central agents of justice reform.
SALLY DAY   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Prosecuting Attorney. Powers and Duties in Criminal Prosecution

open access: yesJournal of Criminal Law and Criminology (1931-1951), 1934
Newman F. Baker, Earl H. De Long
openaire   +2 more sources

Prefiguring truth: The limits of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry

open access: yesJournal of Law and Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Public inquiries operate as privileged instruments of sense‐making, defined by a series of epistemological and methodological commitments. The Grenfell Tower Inquiry was established to uncover the truth of the fire in which seventy‐two people died. This article interrogates the truth‐seeking and truth‐producing practices of the Inquiry.
JAMIE M. JOHNSON   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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