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PUBLIC GOODS AND CRIMINALISATION

open access: yesThe Denning Law Journal, 2017
Theories of criminalisation seek to identify the criteria by which behaviour is legitimately criminalised. This article believes that their success in so doing is best assessed if they examine the question of criminalisation in light of four desirable features for any such theory.
openaire   +3 more sources

Homelessness Service Usage Patterns of 30,000 Homeless and At‐Risk Households: The Melbourne Access Point Study

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Over the last three decades, overseas researchers have utilised administrative data to identify distinct patterns in shelter use. In Australia, the use of administrative data to understand service utilisation patterns among people ‘at risk’ of homelessness and experiencing homelessness is limited.
Godwin Kavaarpuo   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Criminalisation of Ethnic Groups: An Issue for Media Analysis

open access: yesForum: Qualitative Social Research, 2005
This paper studies the role of the news media in the criminalisation of ethnic groups, and the relations between criminalisation processes and the racialisation of difference. The claim of the paper is that criminalisation is part of a broader process of
Marcello Maneri, Jessika Ter Wal
doaj  

Making War: Conflict Zones and Their Implications for Drug Policy

open access: yesRevue Internationale de Politique de Développement, 2020
The illicit drug economy has emerged as a major factor that can exacerbate violence, complicate peace negotiations and corrupt transitions from war to peace.
Tuesday Reitano
doaj   +1 more source

Meeting the Needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People With Hearing Loss in the Context of the National Disability Insurance Scheme

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Hearing loss is a poignant issue in many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and, without sufficient support, it can also contribute to disabling life experiences. The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is intended to provide support to eligible people experiencing disability, however, to effectively serve this ...
Hannah Lack   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Neo-Patrimonial ‘Use’ of Drug Policy in Electoral Processes

open access: yesRevue Internationale de Politique de Développement, 2020
The prohibition of illegal drug production, use and trafficking has resulted in several shortcomings and negative consequences for other global development objectives.
Khalid Tinasti
doaj   +1 more source

Don't Worry About Her; Intersectionality, and the Role of Systems and Structures in the Embodied Experiences of Young Women's Use of Violence

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Systems and structures designed to protect and support young people, specifically (in this paper) young women, are ironically the same systems that maintain gender disparity. Consequently, this has influenced the embodied identities of young women who experience and use violence. Such systemic and structural intersectionality has impacted upon
Louise Rak   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Are Barriers to Sustainable Development Endogenous to Drug Control Policies?

open access: yesRevue Internationale de Politique de Développement, 2020
This introductory article explains the rationale behind the 12th Thematic Issue of International Development Policy, which explores the tension between devel­opment and drug control goals, both current and historic.
Khalid Tinasti   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

‘Somewhere We Can Call Home and…Be Normal’: Findings From the Justice Housing Programme Evaluation

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The relationship between homelessness or unstable housing and reincarceration is well documented. The initial month after a person is released from custody is a period of particular vulnerability, with an increased risk of homelessness and return to prison.
Helen Taylor, Lorana Bartels
wiley   +1 more source

De l’ordre moral à l’ordre social. L’application des lois pénalisant la sexualité prémaritale selon des lignes de classe

open access: yesL’Année du Maghreb, 2017
The analysis of sex-work practices in terms of intimate economy in Morocco allows, on the one hand, to link generally separated sexual practices (acts of prostitution and intimate sexual acts not prostitution) and, on the other hand, to observe how these
Mériam Cheikh
doaj   +1 more source

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