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“An Enormous Amount of Human Waste”: Self-esteem, Capitalism, and the US Prison, 1973-1989
Transatlantica, 2021 The period between the passage of the Rockefeller drug laws in 1973 and the Reagan-era expansion of the War on Drugs in the late 1980s was characterized by the rise of penal punitiveness and the triumph of neoliberal logics; it was also during these ...
Anaïs Lefèvre
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On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
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The International Expansion of São Paulo’s “Primeiro Comando da Capital” (PCC): notes on the illicit drug trade in South America [PDF]
Rivista di Criminologia, Vittimologia e Sicurezza, 2019 This article examines the trajectory of the “Primeiro Comando da Capital” or PCC, a prison-based organized criminal group from Brazil, and its participation in transnational drug trafficking in South America, notably around the Paraguayan-Brazilian ...
Machado G.
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The rapid increase in older people in prison populations worldwide is generating significant health, cost, and human rights pressures on custodial systems. Compassionate release for older, frail inmates is a potentially effective response, yet little is known about public support for this approach.
Ye In (Jane) Hwang +3 more
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Restorative and Transformative Justice in a Land of Mass Incarceration
Journal of Moral Theology, 2016 The purpose of this article is to wrestle with the difficulties as well as possibilities for restorative justice in a land of mass incarceration. What can restorative justice offer in response to mass incarceration?
Amy Levad
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Inside Private Prisons: An American Dilemma in the Age of Mass Incarceration. Lauren-Brooke Eisen
Iperstoria, 2019 Recensione di Inside Private Prisons: An American Dilemma in the Age of Mass Incarceration.
Roberto Cagliero
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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract The oval window (OW) is an opening connecting the inner and middle ear. Its area has been shown to consistently scale with body mass (BM) in primates, and has been used alongside semi‐circular canal (SCC) size to differentiate Homo sapiens and fossil hominins, including Paranthropus robustus.
Ruy Fernandez, José Braga
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Skeletal pathologies in extant crocodilians as a window into the paleopathology of fossil archosaurs
The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract Crocodilians, together with birds, are the only extant relatives to many extinct archosaur groups, making them highly important for interpreting paleopathological conditions in a phylogenetic disease bracketing model. Despite this, comprehensive data on osteopathologies in crocodilians remain scarce.
Alexis Cornille +6 more
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Descriptive, comparative, and functional anatomy of the facial musculature in cattle (Bos taurus)
The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract Facial expressions can provide insight into animal emotions and pain, but no standardized system for assessing the entire facial display in cattle (Bos taurus Linnaeus) exists. The Facial Action Coding System (FACS), originally developed for humans, identifies distinct facial movements based on mimetic muscles.
Maja Söderlind +6 more
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Mass Incarceration as a Social-Structural Driver of Health Inequities: A Supplement to AJPH.
American Journal of Public Health, 2020 Mass incarceration in the United States is a civil rights, human rights, and public health crisis that is the result of social, political, and economic forces, rooted in enduring legacies of slavery and oppression along lines of race and class.
L. Brinkley-Rubinstein, David H. Cloud
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