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Migration, Repression and Homosexual Sociability in Francoist Spain: An Analysis of the Case Files of the Special Courts of Barcelona (1965–1975)

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Spain, under General Franco's regime, homosexuality was regarded as an antisocial and dangerous behaviour. It was thus pursued both by the police and judicial courts. The Law on Vagrants and Crooks (1954) and, subsequently, the Law on Dangerousness and Social Rehabilitation (1970) constituted the legal mechanisms used by the dictatorship to
Jordi Mas Grau, Rafael Cáceres‐Feria
wiley   +1 more source

Perceptions About the Role of Money in Contemporary Romanian Foster Care

open access: yesSocial Inclusion
Despite foster care becoming central to the protection of children in state care in Romania following the push for a rights‐based approach in anticipation of European accession, empirical research on fostering remains sparse.
Borbála Kovács, Ovidiu Oltean
doaj   +1 more source

A ‘Wholly Unjustifiable Treatment of British Subject’? The Detention of W. T. Goode in the Baltic, 1919

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract In the summer of 1919, W. T. Goode, the Manchester Guardian’s special correspondent in Russia and the Baltic, was arrested in the Estonian capital Tallinn and briefly detained aboard a British warship. Goode's detention caused a furore, leading to accusations of kidnap, heated commentary in the press and questions in parliament.
Colin Storer
wiley   +1 more source

Unsigning the Rome Statute: Examining the Relationship Between the United States and the International Criminal Court [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Presently, 120 states are parties to the Rome Statute establishing the International Criminal Court (ICC). A state that one will not find on the list, however, would be the United States.
Naylor, Allison
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What Is Justice? Reflections on the Criminal Justice System in Brazil

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay explores the possibility of justice for the wretched of the earth. Using escrevivência (writing the experience/existence) and drawing on the theoretical insights and political praxis of the Assessoria Popular Maria Felipa (APMF, Maria Felipa Advocacy Group)—a Brazilian abolitionist organization led by Black activists—we analyze how ...
Fernanda Oliveira   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cross-Border Crimes and the European Public Prosecutor’s Office [PDF]

open access: yeseucrim - The European Criminal Law Associations' Forum, 2017
This contribution aims to shed light on some issues concerning the cross-border cases (already or potentially) falling within the competence of the EPPO. The notion of “cross-border cases” – them being PIF offences or other offences – encompasses at least three scenarios: i) Cases involving two or more Member States participating in the EPPO, including
openaire   +1 more source

The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
wiley   +1 more source

Access to Electronic Data for Criminal Investigations Purposes in the EU. CEPS Paper in liberty and security in Europe No. 2020-01, February 2020 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Within the EU and across the Atlantic, investigation and prosecution of crime increasingly relies on the possibility to access, collect and transfer electronic information and personal data held by private companies across borders. Cross-border access to
Carrera, Sergio, Stefan, Marco
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