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What good are markets in punishment? [PDF]
, 2007 There are two chronically unexamined assumptions about privatisation in punishment. First is the idea that it is a relatively new development. In fact, penal activity has always been (at least partly) private.
Armstrong, S.C.
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"Annihilation through labor": the killing of state prisoners in the Third Reich [PDF]
, 1999 One of the most distinctive features of Nazi society was the increasingly radical division of its members into “national comrades” and “community aliens.” The former were to be protected by the state and encouraged to procreate, while the latter were ...
Wachsmann, Nikolaus
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Cuttings, Combings, Fettlings and Flock: Gender and Australian Wool ‘Waste’, 1900–1950
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As Australia's wool industry produced vast amounts of fine fleece from the nineteenth century, the wool processing and clothes manufacturing industries generated waste – products like cuttings, combings, fettlings and flock. Salvaged and then sold to waste merchants, these and other materials had a second life.
Lorinda Cramer
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What Is Justice? Reflections on the Criminal Justice System in Brazil
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay explores the possibility of justice for the wretched of the earth. Using escrevivência (writing the experience/existence) and drawing on the theoretical insights and political praxis of the Assessoria Popular Maria Felipa (APMF, Maria Felipa Advocacy Group)—a Brazilian abolitionist organization led by Black activists—we analyze how ...
Fernanda Oliveira +2 more
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Tendinţe de legiferare în dreptul internaţional public a unor categorii noi de crime internaţionale
Revista Institutului Naţional de Justiţie, 2019 Prezentul articol încearcă să abordeze infracţiunile care, în contextul actual, au căpătat valenţe internaţionale, respectiv – traficul de persoane, distrugerea de valori internaţionale şi furtul de nave. Abordarea este una istorică şi doctrinară. Astfel,
Burlacu Oleg
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Mass supervision, misrecognition and the ‘Malopticon’ [PDF]
, 2018 This paper aims to contribute to debates about ‘mass supervision’ by exploring its penal character as a lived experience. It begins with a review of recent studies that have used ethnographic methods to explore how supervision is experienced before ...
McNeill, Fergus
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Noise in judicial decision‐making: A research note
Criminology, EarlyView.Abstract Researchers suspect large unsystematic variation (noise) in criminal sentencing, but past attempts to quantify it have used short hypothetical vignettes administered in low‐stakes settings to small, heterogeneous samples of judges. Such vignettes are deficient in detail and ecological validity.
Andrzej Uhl, Justin T. Pickett
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New Labour, New Legitimacy? The ‘making punishment work’ agenda and the limits of penal reform [PDF]
, 2007 In this paper I consider the thorny question of whether the policies and penal reforms undertaken by the New Labour government in the last ten years have made the penal system more legitimate.
Scott, David
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The RAND Journal of Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We study a long‐horizon, oligopolistic market with random shocks to demand that can be arbitraged by two storage operators with finite capacity. This problem applies to any storable commodity—that is, most commodities. Because the arbitrage spread is so sensitive to market power, storage operators face strong incentives to restrain quantities ...
Sergei Balakin, Guillaume Roger
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Realidad penitenciaria en Colombia: la necesidad de una nueva política criminal
Revista Criminalidad, 2016 El hacinamiento carcelario, presente en la mayor parte de los países latinoamericanos, es un problema de gran calado social que genera el sufrimiento de miles de personas privadas de libertad. El lamentable estado de las infraestructuras penitenciarias y
Ana Isabel Cerezo Domínguez +1 more
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