Results 31 to 40 of about 3,365 (291)

Criminalisation of the Burqa in the UK [PDF]

open access: yesThe Journal of Criminal Law, 2016
In 2010, the French government passed a law banning face coverings in public places. This includes shopping malls, restaurants and schools. Although worded widely, the law was drafted to prevent Muslim women from wearing the Islamic face veil in public. Those who wear it now risk facing a criminal conviction.
openaire   +3 more sources

Copyright and Trademark Crimes in the Nordic Countries: Analysis from the Perspective of the Principle of Legality

open access: yesBergen Journal of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, 2020
The principle of legality limits criminalisation in the Nordic countries. The purpose of the principle is to uphold the legitimacy of the penal authority of the state and to protect the rights of an accused by ensuring the clarity and foreseeability of ...
Laura Tammenlehto
doaj   +1 more source

How the war on drugs impacts social determinants of health beyond the criminal legal system

open access: yesAnnals of Medicine, 2022
There is a growing recognition in the fields of public health and medicine that social determinants of health (SDOH) play a key role in driving health inequities and disparities among various groups, such that a focus upon individual-level medical ...
Aliza Cohen   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Criminalisation and Normative Theory [PDF]

open access: yesCurrent Issues in Criminal Justice, 2013
Criminal law scholarship is enjoying a renaissance in normative theory, evident in a growing list of publications from leading scholars that attempt to elucidate a set of principles on which criminalisation and criminal law might - indeed should - be based.
openaire   +2 more sources

Out of Sight: Social Control and the Regulation of Public Space in Manchester

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2019
This paper considers the history and context of the control of public spaces, how this is regulated currently and how it relates to the politics of homelessness and community governance with a specific focus on the regulation of public space in the ...
Christopher J. Moss, Kate Moss
doaj   +1 more source

Homelessness and Contact with the Criminal Justice System: Insights from Specialist Lawyers and Allied Professionals in Australia

open access: yesInternational Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2021
Lawyers and allied professionals who have experience supporting, advising and representing people experiencing homelessness are uniquely placed to identify problems with the operation of the criminal justice system—from policing to courts to punishment ...
Luke McNamara   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Role of Actual and Purported Origin in e‐Commerce Wine Pricing: Evidence From Italian and French Names on Labels

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The origin of a product, if associated with good quality, can contribute to building a positive collective reputation, leading to a potential price premium. However, it is conceivable that a producer markets a product by evoking symbols, images, words, and values typical of places other than where it was designed or produced, creating a ...
Annalisa Caloffi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Criminalisation of Sex Work: A Critical Approach to Criminalisation Theories from a Human Rights Perspective

open access: yesAnnales de la Faculté de Droit d’Istanbul
Criminalisation is a popular legal approach to sex work. It adopts the view that sex work is harmful and wrong both for sex workers and the community. This argument seemingly coincides with fundamental principles of criminalisation, namely harm and wrong
Başak Ekinci
doaj   +1 more source

The World Drug Policy Problem. An Interview with José Ramos-Horta

open access: yesRevue Internationale de Politique de Développement, 2020
José Ramos-Horta is a former president of Timor-Leste, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and a current member of the Global Commission on Drug Policy (GCDP). Khalid Tinasti, one of the guest editors of this Thematic Issue, interviewed José Ramos-Horta to gain
José Ramos-Horta, Khalid Tinasti
doaj   +1 more source

Recent Advancements in Topic Modeling Techniques for Healthcare, Bioinformatics, and Other Potential Applications

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
This article offers a comprehensive review of topic modeling techniques, tracing their evolution from inception to recent developments. It explores methods such as latent Dirichlet allocation, latent semantic analysis, non‐negative matrix factorization, probabilistic latent semantic analysis, Top2Vec, and BERTopic, highlighting their strengths ...
Pratima Kumari   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy