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Margizens. Exclusion and state violence towards the Romanian Roma community in Poland
A Romanian Roma community has been present in the largest Polish cities since the beginning of the 1990s. Although their presence was initially perceived as temporary, some members of this group have now been living in Poland for more than 20 years ...
Klaus Witold
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Special Issue: Hidden Criminalisation—Punitiveness at the Edges: Guest Editors’ Introduction
This special issue had its origins in a workshop on criminal law and criminalisation which we co-convened, and our law schools co-hosted, in 2017. That workshop was the fourth in what has become an annual event in Australia (starting with a Sydney Law ...
Julia Quilter, Luke McNamara
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CONSIDERATIONS ON THE PRINCIPLE OF LEGALITY OF CRIMINALISATION [PDF]
Although the new Criminal Code made a series of amendments to the criminal legislation, the regulation of the principle of legality of criminalisation has not been significantly changed, but only from the point of view of the structure of governing rules.
Mihai Adrian HOTCA
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Why Decriminalise Prostitution? Because Law and Justice Aren’t Always the Same
Leigh Goodmark’s work on domestic violence argues for alternatives to criminal justice to ‘solve’ issues of gendered violence. The criminalisation of sex work and prostitution is rarely discussed in this context—a rather odd omission given the increasing
Jane Scoular, Sharron FitzGerald
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CRIMINALISATION OF IMMIGRATION LAW
The study deals with a new phenomenon in criminal and immigration law referred to as crimmigration. It involves the use in immigration law of instruments borrowed from criminal law, such as detention, banishment, procedures used in criminal law and the powers of police authorities, in order to combat illegal immigration.
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Scapegoating juvenile ‘people smugglers’ from Indonesia: poverty, crime, and punishment [PDF]
This article introduces two case studies of underage transporters from Indonesia, who brought asylum seekers to Australia by boat and thus were convicted and jailed for the crime of people smuggling.
Missbach, Antje, Palmer, Wayne
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One of the ways to mislead a court or other authorised body is to provide deliberately false testimony by a witness or victim, for which the legislator provides for criminal liability in Article 384 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
K. A. Romanauskas
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Moves to criminalise coercive and controlling behaviours are hotly debated. In jurisdictions where the legal response to domestic violence has incorporated coercive control, the efficacy of such interventions has yet to be established. Within this debate,
Sandra Walklate, Kate Fitz-Gibbon
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This article unpacks practices of collaboration and community-building among sex workers in Athens, weaving them with an analysis of labour and illegalisation.
Valentini Sampethai
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In 2015, after two years of controversy, the so-called ‘Swedish model’—the criminalisation of paying for sex—became law in Northern Ireland as an anti-trafficking measure.
Susann Huschke, Eilís Ward
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