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Prison Officers as Providers of Social Support: An Analysis of the Human Service Values and Power Dynamics Present in Prison Officers’ Accounts of Assisting Inmates

open access: yesThe Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Previous research has shown that prison officers often provide practical and emotional assistance to inmates. However, this has generally been depicted as a discretionary, conflicted and unrewarded task, sometimes met with hostility from their peers.
Cristina Güerri
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring and Explaining the Use and Proliferation of Whole Life Orders in England and Wales

open access: yesThe Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Whole life orders (WLOs) represent the power of the state to inflict harm at its most extreme, with such sentences being found to be in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights. However, very little research has endeavoured to understand the use of WLOs.
Hannah Gilman, Jake Phillips
wiley   +1 more source

التنسيق بين الكليَّات والجزئيّات وأثره في الاجتهاد والترجيح الفقهي

open access: yesالفكر الإسلامي المعاصر, 2013
يعرض هذا البحث بالتعريف والتأصيل والتحليل لمنهجية جليلة في التعامل مع الأدلة الشرعية، واستدرار الأحكام على ضوئها، وهي التنسيق بين كليات المدارك وجزئياتها، والبحث مقسم إلى أربعة أقسام: أولها في بيان حقيقة الكليات والجزئيات وحقيقة التنسيق بينهما، وثانيها ...
محمد هندو
doaj  

Scots law: a system in search of a family? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Presented as a paper at the Irish Association of Comparative Law, this article looks at the classification of legal systems into families and examines where, among the many different models, Scots law fits ...
Farran, Sue
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Hierarchical Citizenship and Racialised Discretion: Police and Consular Officers’ Handling of Capital Cases in Malaysia

open access: yesThe Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the death penalty in Malaysia, where foreign nationals have historically been sentenced to death at a disproportionately high rate. The international community has recognised that foreign defendants are disadvantaged in alien criminal justice systems and made efforts to address this through the United Nation's Vienna ...
Carolyn Hoyle, Lucy Harry
wiley   +1 more source

The Application of the Rule of Istihsan bi Al-Maslahah (Juristic Preference by Interest): A Practical Approach on Some Medical Treatment

open access: yesInternational Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 2017
Islamic jurisprudence is built from two major foundations which are to give maslahah (interest) to human beings and push away all the troubles from them. This is as stated in the method of fiqhiyyah which is “Jalbu al Masalih wa Dar’u al Mafasid”. Istihsan is one of the secondary sources in Islamic law that is created from the principle of maslahah ...
Nizaita Omar, Zulkifly Muda
openaire   +1 more source

Changed Minds and L2 Motivation: Reflections of Japanese EFL Students Living, Laboring and Learning in Vietnam

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT English as a lingua franca (ELF) is increasingly used for communication in many EFL contexts, including Vietnam. Although Japan and Vietnam have a long history of economic cooperation, for practical reasons, English typically functions as the medium of communication between the two groups. This study examines Japanese expats who had studied or
Mark R. Freiermuth, Satomi Kanaya
wiley   +1 more source

Perceptions of Trans and Gender Non‐Conforming People on General Health Care in the Being LGBTQI+ in Ireland Study

open access: yesJournal of Advanced Nursing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim To examine if trans and gender non‐conforming participants perceive greater healthcare inequities in their interactions with healthcare practitioners than cisgender sexual minority participants, and analyse free text responses from transgender and gender non‐conforming participants to gain possible insight into causes of inequities ...
Agnes Higgins   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Conditions of Possibility for Nomostasis

open access: yesBratislava Law Review
The purpose of this paper is to provide for a theoretical reflection concerning the continued use of certain legal institutions, concepts, rules or principles outside the socio-economic or political context in which such legal morphemes (known as “legal
Rafał Mańko
doaj   +1 more source

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