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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

Social well-being under pressure: structural inequities in early childhood in Mexico City. [PDF]

Front Public Health
Martínez-Martínez OA, Ancira-Moreno M, Ramírez-López A.   +2 more
europepmc   +1 more source

From famine to food crisis. What history can teach us about local and global subsistence crises

The range of famine prone regions in the world has been shrinking for centuries; it’s currently mainly limited to sub-Sahara Africa. Yet the impact of endemic hunger has not declined and the early 21st century seems to be faced with a new threat: global ...
Vanhaute, Eric
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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

Land security and crop theft in rural Tanzania. [PDF]

PLoS One
Ochieng NA, Grote U, Basu AK.
europepmc   +1 more source

How Cultural Taste Shapes Recognition and Redistribution Struggles: Far‐Right Politics, Touristification and the Political Economy of Taste

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article connects cultural taste to capitalist mechanisms of redistribution through the concept of political economy of taste. Building on Bourdieusian scholarship on recognition struggles and drawing on Mike Savage and Nancy Fraser, it examines how public performances of taste reshape representations of working‐class culture and how these
Simone Varriale
wiley   +1 more source

Developing a novel index for neighborhood social determinants of cardiovascular diseases in the CARDIA study. [PDF]

Nat Commun
Gao T, Zheng Y, Joyce BT, Liu L, Liu L, Kiefe C, Forrester S, Gordon-Larsen P, Liu C, Lloyd-Jones D, Zhang K, Hou L.   +11 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Producing Fraud at the Welfare‐Migration Nexus: Migrant Families and Children's Social Care

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article interrogates the production of ‘fraud’ at the interface between welfare and migration regimes. Taking the welfare micropublic of children's social care in the UK as a case study, we focus on encounters between migrant families subject to the ‘no recourse to public funds’ immigration condition and London local authorities.
Eve Dickson, Rachel Rosen
wiley   +1 more source

The Association Between Fear of Crime, Life Satisfaction, and Health-Related Quality of Life in Non-Victimized Older Adults Aged 60-93 Years-Findings from the Swedish Good Aging in Skåne (GÅS) Population Based Study. [PDF]

Int J Environ Res Public Health
Larsson E, Elmståhl S, Ekström H.
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Supply chain food crime and fraud: a sytematic literature review of food criminality

Purpose of this paper: The papers focuses on considering the variables known to affect the two domains of food crime and food fraud within a supply chain context.
Hills, M., Fassam, Liam, Dani, Samir
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