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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

The Life of Crimmigration Law [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This short essay introduces a collection of articles that arose from the Denver University Law Review’s symposium Crimmigration: Crossing the Border Between Criminal Law and Immigration Law, held in February 2015 at the University ofDenver Sturm College ...
García Hernández, César Cuauhtémoc
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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
doaj   +1 more source

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 Making of Crimmigration: The Criminalization of Immigrants [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
For the past decades, immigrants and immigration policies in the United States of America are significant debates. During campaigns, politicians describe their immigration opinion and their immigration solutions.
Esparza, Dorisa
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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
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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
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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

Crimmigration - Online Tagung am ZIF

open access: yes, 2021
Am 11. und 12. Februar 2021 findet am Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Forschung der Universität Bielefeld die Tagung Crimmigration. On the merger of crime controld and migration control statt.
Christoph Rass
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