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What Is Justice? Reflections on the Criminal Justice System in Brazil

The 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, Isabela Corby, Juliana Góes   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Lisbon Treaty and the Police and Justice Cooperation: Special Emphasis to the European Public Prosecutor's Office [PDF]

, 2016
Criminal law at the European Union level has traditionally been dealt through the concept of intergovernmental cooperation and gains its legal designation in the Maastricht Treaty, as part of the Justice and Home Affairs. The Amsterdam Treaty created the
Josifovic, Ivica
core   +3 more sources

Commencement of criminal investigation according to the new Serbian Criminal Procedure Code [PDF]

Pravni Zapisi, 2014
In this article the author ascertains that the procedural position of a citizen who finds him/herself in the role of a suspect in the commencement of the newly established prosecutorial investigation is much less favourable in comparison to the position ...
Grubač Momčilo
doaj  

Practitioners' Handbook on the European Public Prosecutor's Office

, 2022
EUropean LAWyers Training on EPPO (EULAW)
Barletta, Amedeo, Bojić, Ines, Bonačić, Marin, Byl, Theo, Cappelletti, Federico, CONSTANTINIDES, Panayiotis, Costa Ramos, Vânia, De Matteis, Luca, Echanove Gonzalez de Anleo, Julia, Galati Concetto, Daniele, Garamvölgyi, Balázs, Guerrero Palomares, Salvador, Herrnfeld, Hans-Holger, Hristova, Ginka, Konforta, Marijana, Laptoš, Tamara, Mirandola, Sofia, Mitreva, Petya, Naydenova, Krystina, Răzvan Radu, Florin, Requejo Naveros, Mayte, Rubini, Paola, Simonato, Michele, Sixto Seijas, Estefania, Tankein, Slavi, Vitková, Petra   +25 more
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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

The 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

Opportunities and Alliances: The Relational Dynamics of Criminal Collusion in Latin America

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Mexico and judicial wiretap analysis in Argentina, this paper shows that collusion between state actors and violent non‐state actors operates through fluid and competitive relational networks rather than stable hierarchies or fixed institutional arrangements.
Eldad J. Levy, Javier Auyero
wiley   +1 more source

Perceptions About the Role of Money in Contemporary Romanian Foster Care

Social 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

Comparative Framing From Below: How Young People in Three Cities Interpret Cyber Dating Abuse by Drawing Boundaries Between Love, Harm, and Justice

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As digital technologies become embedded in everyday life, interpersonal violence increasingly takes place in cyberspace. Existing studies have focused on how states, experts, and the media define what counts as cyber violence and abuse. Less attention has been paid to how ordinary people interpret and contest these definitions and how their ...
Susanne Y. P. Choi, Tangi P. C. Yip, Hsiu‐Hua Shen, Xiying Wang, Lynne Y. Nakano   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Unkept Promises, Unequal Worlds: A Sociological Study of Intimate Abuse in Promise‐to‐Marry Cases in India

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The article presents a sociological study of promise‐to‐marry ‘rape’ cases in India to illuminate the inner lives of intimacies. It argues that promise‐to‐marry cases cannot be understood merely as instances of deceptive sex, wherein the consent of the victim is vitiated by a false promise of marriage as a pretext for sexual intercourse ...
Monika
wiley   +1 more source

Monitoring Quality of Mafia‐Connected Accountants

Journal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We investigate the monitoring quality of accountants with ties to the Mafia in their role as auditors for “clean” firms—those with no known ties to organized crime. Using a proprietary government database, we identify Italian firms with alleged ties to the Mafia through their executives, directors, or shareholders.
Pietro A. Bianchi, Jere R. Francis, Antonio Marra, Nicola Pecchiari   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source