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History, EarlyView.Abstract In March 1976, around 2000 women from forty countries arrived at the Palais des Congrès in Brussels to participate in the first International Tribunal on Crimes Against Women. Explicitly positioning themselves against the United Nations‐led ‘International Year of the Woman’, the organizers and participants of the tribunal proclaimed a global ...
NIVEDITA JOON
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Verdict Reasonable at Casey Anthony Trial
, 2011 The Casey Anthony trial verdict was reasonable if the jury did not believe she was guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. To prevent the wrongful conviction of innocents, a preponderance of the evidence standard is not used in criminal ...
Loewy, Arnold H.
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, 2017 This chapter examines the defense's arguments in the Baltimore Federals' Washington antitrust lawsuit against the American and National Leagues as well as the jury's verdict in the case.
Nathaniel Grow
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Legitimacy and Persuasion in the Anglo‐Scottish Wars of the 1540s
History, EarlyView.Abstract The considerable efforts of the invading English to justify their activities and garner support during the Anglo‐Scottish wars of the 1540s are well known. Recent welcome attention to Scottish texts produced during the conflict has begun to correct a previous historiographical imbalance towards English materials.
Amy Blakeway
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Much of the current popular and academic literature on the provision of green spaces is dominated by the assumption that ‘nature’ is an unalloyed positive, and that socioeconomic and racial exclusion from access to green spaces is a problem of unequal spatial distribution rather than of the form and content of particular urban designs.
Kiera Chapman
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WORKING THE GREY AREA: Street‑Level Refugee Housing Governance in Sweden
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores how refugee housing provision under the Swedish dispersal programme produces uneven pathways to housing stability. Although residence‐permit‐holding refugees assigned to the municipalities are granted the right to housing, there are no stipulations regarding housing type, quality, or duration, resulting in significant ...
Nicolina Ewards Öberg
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The Lubanga verdict: a milestone in the fight against impunity? Egmont Commentary, 22 March 2012
, 2012 It took the International Criminal Court (ICC) about six years to come to a conclusion in the case against Thomas Lubanga, a Congolese militia leader who was a leading figure in the Ituri conflict.
Vlassenroot, Koen
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Criminal Records as Classification Situations
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Marion Fourcade and Kieran Healy developed the notion of “classification situations” to describe how ordinal schema that sort and rank individuals, like credit scores, are used to differentiate opportunities, prices, and services in ways that structure life chances while masking inequality as meritocratic.
Lindsay Bing, Sarah Esther Lageson
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Monitoring Quality of Mafia‐Connected Accountants
Journal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We investigate the monitoring quality of accountants with ties to the Mafia in their role as auditors for “clean” firms—those with no known ties to organized crime. Using a proprietary government database, we identify Italian firms with alleged ties to the Mafia through their executives, directors, or shareholders.
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The Three-Verdict Problem [PDF]
!n Scotland, for hundreds of years, juries have chosen between three criminal verdicts: “guilty,” “not guilty,” and “not proven.” The “not proven” verdict’s legal meaning remains mysterious.
Whiteley, Jack
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