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Sasa’a le fafao?: Approaches to Return and Reintegration of Criminal Deportees (Returnees) into Samoa

open access: yesInternational Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy
Pacific Island states face high levels of criminal deportations arriving from the United States, Australia and New Zealand—with the expectation that returnees will simply reintegrate.
Henrietta McNeill   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

No Place Called Home. The Banishment of ‘Foreign Criminals’ in the Public Interest: A Wrong without Redress

open access: yesLaws, 2020
This article examines the legal and ethical rationale for the deportation of ‘foreign criminals’ who have established their homes in the United Kingdom.
Helen O’Nions
doaj   +1 more source

Judging Migrants

open access: yesTijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis, 2023
The Dutch Golden Age is often referred to as a prime example of Dutch tolerance with regard to the ‘open’ policies towards migration and the harmonious co-existence of migrants with their local neighbours. Considering that, before 1800, migrants made up
Karlijn Luk, Samantha Sint Nicolaas
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Hierarchical Citizenship and Racialised Discretion: Police and Consular Officers’ Handling of Capital Cases in Malaysia

open access: yesThe Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 226-236, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines the death penalty in Malaysia, where foreign nationals have historically been sentenced to death at a disproportionately high rate. The international community has recognised that foreign defendants are disadvantaged in alien criminal justice systems and made efforts to address this through the United Nation's Vienna ...
Carolyn Hoyle, Lucy Harry
wiley   +1 more source

Using Risk to Assess the Legal Violence of Mandatory Detention

open access: yesLaws, 2016
Immigration mandatory detention is a particularly harsh example of the structural violence embedded in immigration enforcement. It deprives liberty without bond for immigrants with prior crimes, and assigns many individuals to the harsh conditions ...
Robert Koulish
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Managing migration, fighting organized crime, or protecting migrants? Dutch prosecutors’ multifaceted approach to human smuggling

open access: yesJournal of Law and Society, Volume 53, Issue 2, Page 239-262, June 2026.
Abstract Drawing on the theoretical frameworks of street‐level bureaucracy and the evolving role of prosecutors under institutional pressure, this article offers an empirical contribution to the literature on ‘crimmigration’. It interrogates how prosecutors interpret their role within human‐smuggling cases and how these interpretations affect the ...
FLAVIA PATANÈ
wiley   +1 more source

The hidden discount: Examining racial disparity in the use of suspended sentences

open access: yesCriminology, Volume 64, Issue 2, Page 450-484, May 2026.
Abstract Extant research on criminal sentencing generally concludes that racial/ethnic disparity is concentrated in the “in–out” decision, and that racial differences in sentence lengths are small and inconsistent. However, sentence length analyses rarely focus on the fact that criminal sentences are often partially or fully suspended, creating ...
Kevin Petersen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Criminalizing “Pro-Immigrant” Initiatives: Reducing the Space of Human Action

open access: yesDve Domovini, 2019
The article addresses the problem of the surveillance, disciplining and criminalization of practices of non-governmental initiatives which offer help to irregular migrants, asylum seekers and refugees in Slovenia and four neighbouring countries. Based on
Vlasta Jalušič
doaj   +1 more source

Where is “that American Joy”?: Ibi Zoboi's American Street (2017) as a Twenty‐First‐Century Political Novel about the Limits of the Haitian/American Dream

open access: yesOrbis Litterarum, Volume 80, Issue 6, Page 589-601, December 2025.
Abstract A product of American exceptionalism, the myth of the American Dream has always defended that the United States is the nation of upward mobility par excellence. Nonetheless, in the last two decades, many scholars, economists, and even politicians have acknowledged the fact that economic inequality is a reality in the country, especially vis‐à ...
Laura Roldán‐Sevillano
wiley   +1 more source

The impact of the 2015 refugee crisis on Hungarian criminal policy

open access: yesBelügyi Szemle, 2020
My study examines Hungary’s migration management, in the framework of criminal policy and the theory of deterrence. Hungarian public service bodies have a two-fold task, since they must act in accordance with a given situation and be prepared for the ...
László András Szabó
doaj   +1 more source

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