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Unnatural Wills: Inheritance Disputes and Inequality
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Within the conceptual frame of relational economic sociology, inheritance disputes are a canonical form of relational mismatch. But the social patterning of relational mismatches, and their various ties to inequality, remain murky. In this paper, I examine all known inheritance disputes in Dallas from 1895–1945 within their social context to ...
Shay O'Brien
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Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology, 2018 In this study, we investigated a psychological mechanism underlying the corruption of government officials, based on cultural factors in China. The proposed psychological kidnapping model describes how some bribers set up relations ( guanxi , 关系) with ...
Yan Xu +6 more
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De Stupro: First Insights on Rape and Its Prosecution in Maltese Courts (1701–10)
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article constitutes a first in‐depth investigation of rape and the prosecution of this crime in early eighteenth‐century Malta. The research, which is based on sixteen rape accusations claimed at the secular courts in Malta between 1701 and 1710, has analysed cases categorized as ‘simple rape’, ‘violent rape’ and rape committed under the ...
Vanessa Buhagiar
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El secuestro: una fractura en la identidad narrativa
Revista Latinoamericana en Ciencias Sociales, Niñez y Juventud, 2014 This research answered the question about the narrative identity of the Colombian politicians kidnapped by the Farc. The objectives were: to identify judgments about their deprivation of freedom and its impact on their lives in community.
Myriam Oviedo-Córdoba +1 more
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A Covert Kidnapping Alert and Location Identifier (CKALI) [PDF]
, 2013 Kidnapping is the taking away or transportation of a person against that person's will, usually to hold the person in false imprisonment and confinement without legal authority.
Adetiba, E. +3 more
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Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how outsourcing household care in modern South Korea has shaped gendered migration from both rural areas and abroad. To clarify the interplay between macro‐level power and individual lives—an aspect often treated piecemeal in earlier research—it introduces the concept of circular carescapes. This notion captures the looping
Junyoung Park, HaeRan Shin
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Studia Universitatis Moldaviae: Stiinte Sociale, 2012 Kidnapping is one of the most complex and specific crimes provided by Moldovan Criminal Code. In this sense, the analysis of this crime implies the deep description of its elements and particularities of its phases.
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Abduction of a minor and criminal law reaction [PDF]
Zbornik Radova: Pravni Fakultet u Novom Sadu, 2018 Criminal prosecution for the abduction of a minor should additionally protect the child's right to live with his parents, or other authorized caregivers, and also to maintain contact with parents or other relatives and close people. The paper is designed
Kovačević Milica D.
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La panique morale au cœur du débat sur la peine de mort en Algérie
L’Année du Maghreb, 2018 This article discusses how the debate on the death penalty is approached in Algeria, based on media controversy over child abduction cases. Our work is built around the «moral panic» generated by the extent of media coverage of these abduction cases.
Belkacem Benzenine
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Toward a feminist geo‐legal reading: US country‐of‐origin information in asylum adjudication
Area, EarlyView.Abstract In this article, we offer what we call ‘a feminist geo‐legal reading’ of documents used in spaces and practices of law. Legal cases and decisions are often based on different legal and non‐legal documents, including laws, explanatory memorandums, testimonies, medical reports, and so forth. In contemporary asylum adjudication, country‐of‐origin
Malene H. Jacobsen +2 more
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