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The ‘Last Resort’: A Moral and/or Legal Principle?

open access: yesOñati Socio-Legal Series, 2013
The paper addresses critically the constitutional status of the so-called ‘last resort’ principle on three different levels: in the jurisprudence of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany, in the criminal justice principles at a European
Panu Minkkinen
doaj  

Confining, Incapacitating, and Partitioning the Body: Carcerality and Surveillance in Samuel Beckett’s Endgame, Happy Days, and Play

open access: yesMiranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone, 2011
Beckett’s utilization of subjectivity is directly linked to his excavation of the carceral, restrictive, and debilitating formations which are vital to the structure of his plays.
Victoria Swanson
doaj   +1 more source

The Optimal Use of Fines and Imprisonment When Wealth is Unobservable [PDF]

open access: yes
This article studies the optimal use of fines and imprisonment when an offender's level of wealth is private information that cannot be observed by the enforcement authority. In a model in which there are two levels of wealth, I derive the optimal mix of
A. Mitchell Polinsky
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Sitting in Many Camps—Innovative Approaches and Methods for First Nations‐Led Research Into Indigenous Peacebuilding

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 2021, a desktop review was conducted of published references to First Nations peoples' approaches to conflict and its management in Australia (Project Stage One), culminating in a report published in 2024. This article focuses on Project Stage Two, a complex, innovative research undertaking building on the findings of Stage One, and being ...
Helen Bishop   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Population trends, convictions and imprisonment: Demographic divergence, dichotomy and diversity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
The links between population patterns and trends, and policy and planning for the justice system is important. The trends in the number of convictions and imprisonments by regional councils are investigated for the period 1986 to 2001. This does not just
Baxendine, Sandra, Pool, Ian
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Differences in cynomolgus macaque populations used for infectious disease research

open access: yesAnimal Models and Experimental Medicine, EarlyView.
Cynomolgus macaques, a species of Old World primate native to southeastern and eastern Asia and the island of Mauritius, are one of the most important nonhuman primate models for infectious disease. Research into the population genetics of cynomolgus macaques has found significant differences between macaques native to different areas, particularly ...
Darcy Quist   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Discourse on Conditional Death Penalty through Probationary Period of Imprisonment Under the New Criminal Code in Perspective of Restorative Justice

open access: yesIus Poenale
One of materials in New Criminal Cod states that the mandatory 10-year probation period for death row inmates in the latest Criminal Code (KUHP) is a solution taken to mediate between the ideas of the pros and cons of the death penalty The rules on the ...
Dwi Ariawan
doaj   +1 more source

Animal‐mediated seed dispersal: A review of study methods

open access: yesApplications in Plant Sciences, EarlyView.
Abstract By dispersing seeds, animals provide ecological functions critical for the ecology, evolution, and conservation of plants. We review quantitative and empirical approaches and emerging technologies to quantify processes and patterns of animal‐mediated seed dispersal (zoochory) across its phases: from predispersal to postdispersal.
Noelle G. Beckman   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

The New Jim Crow [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The mass incarceration of poor people of color represents a new American caste system that is the moral equivalent of Jim Crow. Today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against criminals in nearly all the ways it was once legal to discriminate against
Michelle Alexander
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Ontogeny of the malleus in Mesocricetus auratus (Mammalia, Rodentia): Systematic and functional implications for the muroid middle ear

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract The three mammalian auditory ossicles enhance sound transmission from the tympanic membrane to the inner ear. The anterior anchoring of the malleus is one of the key characters for functional classification of the auditory ossicles. Previous studies revealed a medial outgrowth of the mallear anterior process, the processus internus ...
Franziska Fritzsche   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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