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The Doctrine of State Necessity

open access: yesThe Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
This article examines the doctrine of state necessity as a distinct but relatively underexplored doctrine of constitutional law. Drawing on case law from a range of jurisdictions, it considers instances in which courts have accepted otherwise unconstitutional measures as lawful in order to preserve the operation of state institutions or protect ...
Athanasios Peftinas
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Status of the Criminal Justice Information Sharing System; Legislative report

open access: yes, 2010
Annual; Began with Jan. 1, 2009.; Description based on: Jan. 1, 2009; title from cover.; Mandated by Public Act 08-01, section 40 (h), an Act Concerning Criminal Justice Reform.; Imprint from letter of transmittal.; Latest issue consulted: Jan. 1, 2009.;
Connecticut. Criminal Justice Information System Governing Board.
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VISIBILITY IN AUTHORITARIAN URBAN SPACE: The (De)politicizing City and Grassroots Mobilizations in Russia

open access: yesInternational 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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Prosecution of War Criminals

open access: yesJournal of Criminal Law and Criminology (1931-1951), 1945
The author is Commerce Counsel of the Chicago and North Western Railway. He served as an officer of Field Artillery and in the Office of the Judge Advocate General, Regular Army, his last commission being Lt. Colonel, and is a member of the Committee on Military and Naval Law, American Bar Association.
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What Is Justice? Reflections on the Criminal Justice System in Brazil

open access: yesThe 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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Issues in separation of criminal procedural functions

open access: yesSHS Web of Conferences, 2018
The term ‘criminal procedural function’. has historically been used by scientists. In order to identify primary issues in procedural functions, the competition principle was analyzed.
Kaija S.
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The Difference in Meaning for the Dismissal of Charges, Postponement of Charges and Waiver of Dispute

open access: yesYuridika, 2019
The development of the authorities which have the right stop a certain prosecution and case overriding in Indonesia has led to multiple interpretations, especially relating to the policy of the public prosecutor to postpone prosecution on grounds of ...
Adi Al Fatah Wallad
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The Prosecution Project: investigating the criminal trial in Australian history

open access: yes, 2016
The Prosecution Project1 had its beginnings in a paper on an obscure murder case. Not one of Australia’s famous trials, it deserves to be better known.
Finnane, Mark
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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

open access: yesThe 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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Criminal Records as Classification Situations

open access: yesThe 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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