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The impact of criminalisation on abortion-related outcomes: a synthesis of legal and health evidence
BMJ Global Health, 2022 Abortion is criminalised to at least some degree in most countries. International human rights bodies have recognised that criminalisation results in the provision of poor-quality healthcare goods and services, is associated with lack of registration and
Maria Isabel Rodriguez +5 more
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Experiences of mental healthcare users and their families when interacting with SAPS: A qualitative study. [PDF]
S Afr J PsychiatrBackground: In South Africa, the South African Police Service (SAPS) is often called to facilitate access to mental healthcare for individuals with severe behavioural disturbances posing risks to themselves or others, as outlined in the Mental Health ...
Kabane V, Minty Y, Viljoen BL.
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Thinking about (Hidden) Criminalisation [PDF]
International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2018 Criminalisation is now seen as one of the central issues in criminal law theory. However, in spite of the (rather belated) recognition of the importance of the topic, a number of fundamental questions remain unaddressed (Duff et al. 2014) and, in many cases, not even openly acknowledged.
Lindsay Farmer
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International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social DemocracyThe purpose of this paper is to explore the problems and possibilities of implementing the criminalisation of coercive and controlling behaviour (CCB). It summarises key findings from three research studies conducted over a 10-year period, in partnership
Charlotte Barlow, Sandra Walklate
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Policing and Society: An International Journal of Research and Policy, 2023 While drugs policing often involves enforcement interventions that seek to tackle drug offences and drug-related crime through criminal sanctions, it is becoming increasingly apparent that diversion now occupies a central position in police responses to ...
Matthew Bacon
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Criminalisation and the Violence(s) of the State: Criminalising Men, Punishing Women
International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2021 This special issue brings together a group of international researchers at different career stages with one common interest: the extent to which recourse to the criminal law as a means of addressing men’s violence(s) serves the interests of women’s ...
Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Sandra Walklate
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Anthropen, 2020 La criminalisation constitue une nouvelle forme de contrôle des mouvements sociaux et contestataires. En restreignant les droits individuels, civils et politiques, même au sein des régimes démocratiques, la criminalisation implique différentes dynamiques de pénalisation allant de l’emprisonnement à de nouvelles mesures législatives faisant des citoyens
Julie Shaw, Sarah Greenhow
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Criminalisation of political activism: a conversation across disciplines
Critical Studies on Security, 2023 This Intervention presents a conversation amongst a collective of scholars who are in the process of establishing a research network studying the criminalisation of dissent. The new UK Police, Crime, Sentencing, Courts Act 2022 is just one recent example
F. Cristiano +10 more
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Criminalisation of suicide and suicide rates: an ecological study of 171 countries in the world
BMJ Open, 2022 Objective In the last half of the 20th century, many countries have already abolished antisuicide laws; however, more than 20 countries still adopt them. This paper is the first to systematically explore the association between criminalisation of suicide
K. Wu +5 more
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BMJ Global Health, 2021 How do choices in criminal law and rights protections affect disease-fighting efforts? This long-standing question facing governments around the world is acute in the context of pandemics like HIV and COVID-19.
M. Kavanagh +8 more
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