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Penalty Notices, Policing and Executive Discretion: Examining the Nature and Effects of Criminalisation in the COVID-19 Pandemic Response

open access: yesInternational Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2023
Police-issued penalty notices were heavily relied upon to deter and punish breaches of emergency restrictions in the Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.
Sean Mabin
doaj   +1 more source

Nationality-Based Criminalisation of South-South Migration: the Experience of Venezuelan Forced Migrants in Peru

open access: yesEuropean Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, 2021
This article examines how Venezuelan forced migrants in Peru experience xenophobic discrimination, which has become increasingly linked to their criminalisation as thieves and murderers.
L. F. Freier, Leda M. Pérez
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A New Norm on Stalking: Is this The New Normal in Lithuania?

open access: yesBaltic Journal of Law & Politics, 2022
The criminalisation of stalking through a specific law is a clear tendency in the EU. At the end of 2021, a new relevant provision in the Criminal Code of the Republic of Lithuania was introduced (Art. 148-1).
Jakštienė Ramunė
doaj   +1 more source

Who does Australia Lock Up? The Social Determinants of Justice

open access: yesInternational Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2023
Crime rates are generally decreasing and governments in Australia (as elsewhere) have committed to reducing recidivism. However, incarceration rates of certain groups continue to rise, including Indigenous and racialised peoples, those experiencing ...
Ruth McCausland, Eileen Baldry
doaj   +1 more source

How client criminalisation under end-demand sex work laws shapes the occupational health and safety of sex workers in Metro Vancouver, Canada: a qualitative study

open access: yesBMJ Open, 2022
Objectives In 2014, Canada implemented end-demand sex work legislation that criminalises clients and third parties (eg, managers, security personnel, etc) involved in sex work.
Jennifer McDermid   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Theorising Criminalisation: The Value of a Modalities Approach

open access: yesInternational Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2018
‘Criminalisation’ has attracted considerable scholarly attention in recent years, much of it concerned with identifying the normative limits of criminal law-making.
Luke McNamara   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

The reproduction of borders and the contagiousness of illegalisation: A case of a Belgrade youth hostel [PDF]

open access: yesGlasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2015
For the past couple of years, Serbia has become a transit country for the ever increasing number of migrants from Africa and Asia, travelling towards the EU.
Stojić-Mitrović Marta, Meh Ela
doaj   +1 more source

Theorising sexual harassment and criminalisation in a Swedish context

open access: yesBergen Journal of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, 2022
This article offers a theoretical approach to criminalisation in relation to sexual harassment, using Sweden as example. The topic is spurred by two separate but interrelated phenomena. The first is the #metoo movement, which raised not only awareness of
Linnea Wegerstad
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Trafficking Defence: A Proposed Model for the Non-Criminalisation of Trafficked Persons in International Law

open access: yesGroningen Journal of International Law, 2013
Trafficked persons are often re-traumatised by being criminalised for offences that they have committed as a result of their status as trafficked persons.
Bijan Hoshi
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Desistance from criminalisation: police culture and new directions in drugs policing

open access: yes, 2021
Globally, there is emerging evidence that drugs policing is moving away from traditional enforcement interventions towards a greater focus on harm reduction.
M. Bacon
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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