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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

open access: yesThe 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

Implementation of harm reduction strategies in criminal-legal systems: a scoping review of the literature. [PDF]

open access: yesHealth Justice
Johnson KL   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Organizational Forms and Welfare Coalitions: Corporate Law and the Movement for Social Insurance in the US and UK

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scholars of the welfare state have long argued that, in liberal democracies, welfare state expansion depends on successful coalitions in its favour. Under what circumstances do these coalitions form? Party systems, economic interest, and political mobilisation have all been thought to influence the emergence of coalitions for welfare state ...
Maya Adereth
wiley   +1 more source

Psychiatric Risk Governance Across Jurisdictions: A Comparative Analysis of Involuntary Treatment, Community Treatment Orders, and Forensic Mental Health Services. [PDF]

open access: yesHealthcare (Basel)
Lippi M   +15 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Establishment of National Public Audit Oversight Boards: Descriptive Evidence and Implications for Audit Quality

open access: yesJournal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We investigate the establishment of public audit oversight bodies (POBs) worldwide. We present descriptive evidence on POBs’ characteristics and factors influencing the timing of their establishment, finding that countries with stronger institutions, civil law traditions, and higher media attention to audit quality adopt POBs faster.
ELIZABETH CARSON   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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