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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

Cliopatria - A geospatial database of world-wide political entities from 3400BCE to 2024CE. [PDF]

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Bennett JS, Mutch E, Tollefson A, Chalstrey E, Benam M, Cioni E, Reddish J, Zsambok J, Levine J, Cook CJ, Francois P, Hoyer D, Turchin P.   +12 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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

The Downfall of Health and Wellness as a Challenge to Humanity: Using Science Fiction to Highlight a Real-Life Crisis. [PDF]

Am J Lifestyle Med
Arena R.
europepmc   +1 more source

On Medical Domination

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this article, I propose and define the concept of medical domination by combining insights from political sociology, Bourdieu's theory of domination, and intersectional perspectives. Drawing on a multi‐sited ethnographic study of abortion services in France, I analyse how a set of legitimised and institutionalised power practices shape ...
Raphaël Perrin
wiley   +1 more source

Neonatal and Child Growth Monitoring: A Renewed Call for Uptake and Application of International Growth Standards

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics &Gynaecology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective The Guidance for International Growth Standards (GIGS) project aims to improve and promote appropriate application of international growth standards across clinical, research and public health settings. Design A guidance document providing historical and conceptual context to support the appropriate application of international ...
Eric O. Ohuma, Bancy Ngatia, Simon Parker, Sara Strout, Linda Vesel   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Social Stratification Without Genetic Differentiation at the Xisima Site in the Late Shang Dynasty. [PDF]

Mol Biol Evol
Tang J, Wang R, Wei Q, He H, Deng C, Tao L, Mao X, Ma H, Wang X, Zou X, Yang X, Zhang Q, Wu Q, Guo Y, Wang CC.   +14 more
europepmc   +1 more source

International relations as cosmopolitan history of ideas : Spengler, Toynbee and Nakamura on inter-civilizationality

, 2011
Josuke Ikeda
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Market orientation and national homicide rates

Criminology, EarlyView.
Abstract We studied the influence of market orientation on national homicide rates. Multiple theoretical traditions equate the development and dominance of markets with higher crime rates. Some traditional sociological theoretical claims, however, suggest market expansion should reduce violence.
William Alex Pridemore, Meghan L. Rogers
wiley   +1 more source