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THE MUNICIPAL POLICE INSTITUTION ABROAD: DEVELOPMENT TENDENCIES

open access: yesState power and local self-government, 2019
openaire   +1 more source

“They Look At Us Like Parasites”: The Corporeal Stigmatization and Pathologization of Deportees in Tijuana, Mexico

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the embodied and institutional forms of marginalization experienced by Mexican deportees in Tijuana. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in clinics and social service organizations, it explores how deportees are corporeally stigmatized, denied legal recognition, and pathologized as addicts in need of coercive ...
Carlos Martinez
wiley   +1 more source

Understaffed and beleaguered: a national survey of chiefs of police about the post-George Floyd era. [PDF]

open access: yesPolicing
Del Pozo B   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The psychiatric fix

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article draws on four years of ethnographic fieldwork in Los Angeles’ (LA) jail mental health facility to describe the interrelated crises of rising numbers of people declared incompetent to stand trial and the recurrent failure of managing madness in jail.
Jeremy Levenson
wiley   +1 more source

Concealed coexistence: Reproductive choice and coercion in Timor‐Leste

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Choice is a central concept in reproductive rights. However, a discourse of choice in reproductive health can also mask precisely the act it aims to protect against: coercion. Whilst choice has been explored extensively in studies of reproductive rights and justice, understandings of coercion are fragmented and under‐theorized.
Laura Burke
wiley   +1 more source

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