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Toxic State–Corporate Crimes, Neo-liberalism and Green Criminology: The Hazards and Legacies of the Oil, Chemical and Mineral Industries

International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2013
This paper uses examples from the history and practices of multi-national and large companies in the oil, chemical and asbestos industries to examine their legal and illegal despoiling and destruction of the environment and impact on human and non-human ...
Vincenzo Ruggiero, Nigel South
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Admissibility of Prior Sexual History Evidence: Examining Its Impact on Mock‐Jurors’ Judgments When Gender and Race Are Considered

Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rape shield laws restrict the admission of prior sexual history evidence (PSHE) in sexual assault trials in various countries, including Canada and the U.S. Despite such laws, admission of PSHE is often at the discretion of a trial judge. The current study examined the effect of PSHE (present, absent), victim and defendant gender (male, female)
Bailey M. Fraser, Emily Pica, Joanna D. Pozzulo   +2 more
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Negotiating identities: ethnicity and social relations in a young offenders' institution [PDF]

, 2008
This article explores the situated nature of male prisoner identities in the late modern British context, using the contrasting theoretical frames of Sykes's (1958) indigenous model and Jacobs' (1979) importation model of prisoner subcultures and social ...
Allport, Gordon W., Back, Les, Barth, Frederik, Bartollas, Clemens, Bauman, Zygmunt, Bhattacharyya, Gargi, Bosworth, Mary, Brah, Avtar, Carroll, Leo, Clemmer, Donald, Coretta Phillips, Diaz-Cotto, Juanita, Earle, Rod, Edgar, Kimmett, Foucault, Michel, Genders, Elaine, Gilroy, Paul, Home Office, Jacobs, James B., Jewkes, Yvonne, Knowles, Caroline, Lash, Scott, Miles, Robert, MORI, Murji, Karim, Nayak, Anoop, Robins, David, Sewell, Tony, Sharma, Sanjay, Sykes, Gresham   +29 more
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Decoding Disbelief: Using Natural Language Processing's Sentiment Analysis to Assess 24 Years of Unfounded Rape Reports Narratives

Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rape myths, including the belief that victims frequently lie, contribute to barriers in justice, such as the disproportionate use of the “unfounded” classification—where, following an investigation, it is determined no crime occurred. This study analyzes rape report narratives tied to previously untested sexual assault kits (N = 5638) from a ...
Rachel E. Lovell, Lacey Caporale, Jiaxin Du   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Environmental justice: a criminological perspective

Environmental Research Letters, 2015
This article examines studies related to environmental justice in the criminological literature and from a criminological perspective. Criminologists have long been concerned with injustices in the criminal justice system related to the enforcement of ...
Michael J Lynch, Paul B Stretesky, Michael A Long   +2 more
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The Fable of The Three Little Pigs: Climate Change and Green Cultural Criminology

International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2019
This paper builds on previous calls for a green cultural criminology that is more attuned to narrative, as well as a narrative criminology that does not limit itself to nonfictional stories of offenders, in two ways.
Avi Brisman
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Green Victimology [PDF]

Faṣlnāmah-i Pizhūhish-i Huqūq-i Kiyfarī, 2017
Green or ecological victimology is a branch of Green criminology which emerged with a critical origin of the criminal justice system to oppose the classic victimology in 1990s.
باقر شاملو, asghar ahmadi, ghodratallah khosroshahi   +2 more
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Writs of Habeas Corpus for Nonhuman Primates in the United States and the Nonhuman Rights Project: Legal Processes and Arguments Used to Secure Nonhuman Animal Rights

International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2023
Questions concerning (nonhuman) animal rights have been increasingly addressed within the criminological literature due to growing interest in green criminology.
Michael J Lynch
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Transcending the carceral archipelago: existential, figurational and structurational perspectives on power and control [PDF]

, 2015
From Foucault (1977) through to Cohen (1985) and Feeley and Simon (1992) criminological thinking about punishment has been dominated by penal rationalities of power and control.
Green, Simon
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Cultural Criminology: The Time is Now [PDF]

, 2019
Cultural criminology understandscrime and its control asproductsofmeaning. It exploressimultaneously the macro-, meso-and micro-levels of social life, sensitive tothe operation of power, in order to produce critical analyses that are politically potent ...
Ilan, J.
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