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Why Decriminalise Prostitution? Because Law and Justice Aren’t Always the Same

open access: yesInternational Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2021
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
doaj   +1 more source

Violent and victimized bodies: sexual violence policy in England and Wales [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This paper uses the notion of the body to frame an archaeology of sexual violence policy in England and Wales, applying and developing Pillow’s ideas.
Alison Phipps   +33 more
core   +1 more source

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

Stopping the Traffick? The problem of evidence and legislating for the ‘Swedish model’ in Northern Ireland

open access: yesAnti-Trafficking Review, 2017
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
doaj   +1 more source

Structural victimisation and trafficking in people in Serbia: Coping strategies and criminalisation risks [PDF]

open access: yesTemida, 2008
This paper tends to explore the relationship between structural victimisation and criminal behavior of people traffickers in Serbia. Looking for conditions under which people in transition and war affected societies create individual choices and ...
Nikolić-Ristanović Vesna
doaj   +1 more source

International sentencing in the context of collective violence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
This article evaluates some of the theoretical and practical arguments which suggest that the potential for international trial justice to make a significant contribution towards reconciliation and peace following mass atrocity is limited. Conversely, it
Henham, R
core   +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

Margizens. Exclusion and state violence towards the Romanian Roma community in Poland

open access: yesArchiwum Kryminologii, 2021
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
doaj   +1 more source

Cyberflashing: to be criminalised or not to be criminalised?

open access: yesStudia Universitatis Moldaviae. Seria Stiinte Sociale
The analysis of the legislation of the Republic of Moldova demonstrates that the act of cyberflashing involves characteristics that are not necessarily present in the case of the acts provided for by the relevant criminal and contraventional norms in force. This denotes the presence of a lacuna in the legislation of the Republic of Moldova.
Vitalie Stati, Radu Vlas, Lia Lupu
openaire   +1 more source

Sex Representation in US Stroke Clinical Trials: A Decade of Trends and Challenges

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Stroke remains a major cause of disability and mortality in the US, with significant sex‐based disparities, and females remain underrepresented in stroke clinical trials. We aimed to examine sex representation in US‐based stroke clinical trials, identify trial characteristics associated with higher female enrollment (≥ 50%), and ...
Chaitali Dagli   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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