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The Carceral Shadow: Criminal Justice as a Determinant of Health and Challenges for Policymakers
The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.Policy Points The criminal justice system functions as a primary social determinant of health in the United States, generating disproportionate physical, psychological, and chronic health burdens on Black communities and other marginalized groups. Policing structural barriers—including qualified immunity, police union contracts, and municipal financing
RASHAWN RAY, KEON GILBERT
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, 2020 : In its recent case law, the CJEU has significantly contributed to the international struggle against impunity. This contribution was made possible by the use of two interpretative techniques. The first one consists in enlarging the scope of EU law when
Aurora Rasi, Rasi, Aurora
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Impunity in Post-authoritarian Brazil: The Supreme Court’s Recent Verdict on the Amnesty Law
European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2011 While numerous countries in post-authoritarian South America have annulled Amnesty Laws issued under authoritarian rule and punished officials involved in repressive organs, Brazil continues to favour impunity.
Nina Schneider
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract The Beqaa Valley in Lebanon has become increasingly polluted, and residents are attributing illness to improper waste disposal and dumping. This article explores local epistemologies of pollution’s causes and effects in three films, which were researched and produced by local residents of Bar Elias, a small town in the Beqaa, which has rapidly
Hannah Sender +2 more
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, 2013 Why have some countries in Latin America over the last two decades shifted from widespread impunity for past human rights violations to the implementation of various forms of specific accountability measures, while others have not? This paper lays out an
García-Godos, Jemima +2 more
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EDITORIAL: Killing the messenger
Pacific Journalism Review, 2018 The statistics globally are chilling. And the Asia-Pacific region bears the brunt of the killing of journalists with impunity disproportionately. Revelations in research published in this edition of Pacific Journalism Review on the trauma experienced by ...
David Robie
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THE LEGITIMACY TRAP: Street Vending Heterogeneity and Selective Enforcement in San Francisco
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Literature on street vending regulation often emphasizes the challenges in enforcing legal frameworks due to unclear laws or insufficient state capacity. However, it tends to overlook diversity among vendors themselves along crucial parameters such as spatial location, community ties and processes of goods procurement.
Irene Farah
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Law's impunity ::responsibility and the modern private military company /
, 2020 "When faced with those who act with impunity, we seek the protection of law. We rely upon the legal system for justice, from international human rights law that establishes common standards of protection, to international criminal law that spearheads ...
Liu, Hin-Yan.
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COMMON SENSE LAW: Making Right/s in the Liberal City
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article, co‐authored by encampment and university scholars, is concerned with how homeless persons challenge rightlessness. We do so by advancing a conceptual framework of common sense law, arguing that such contestations take place not only in courtrooms but also in the lived spaces of homelessness.
Ananya Roy +3 more
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Indigenous Women against Impunity: Challenging discrimination in Guatemala’s legal system [PDF]
, 2008 Guatemala signed a peace accord in 1997, after 36 years of conflict. But the legacy of violence continues to haunt its population, especially indigenous people and women, who face ethnic and gender-based discrimination.
Fries, Rebecca, Murrales, Mayra
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