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The article tackles the problem of mending of the material damage due to illicit actions of the penal pursuance institutions and of judicial instances, related to the unfolding of the penal process.
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Rebuilding the Women's Estate: Imaginary Penalities in Scottish Imprisonment, 2012–2023
ABSTRACT This article explores a period during which the Scottish Prison Service aspired to a ‘golden age’ for imprisonment, tracing how a narrative of progress shaped a decade of struggle to close Scotland's national prison for women: ‘Cornton Vale’.
Cara Hunter
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Local Elites in Chile's Pisco Valley: Dispossession, Legal Mobilisation and Intertwined Citizenship
ABSTRACT In countries in the Global South, citizenship is often closely tied to access to water and land ownership. In Latin America, the literature has primarily explored social mobilisation and identity reconfiguration in response to development‐driven processes of land and water dispossession affecting peasants, rural and Indigenous communities ...
Chloé Nicolas‐Artero
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Organized Crime, Corruption, and Economic Growth
ABSTRACT In this paper, we study the relationship between organized crime, corruption, and economic growth on a data set from Italian regions for the period 1996–2013. Our working hypothesis is that organized crime can embezzle part of the public expenditure aimed at productive uses by threatening and bribing public officers. To assess the consequences
Tamara Fioroni +2 more
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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
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Straddling “The Gulf Between Medicine and Law”: Medico‐legal addiction and Japanese psychiatry
Abstract Increasing punitive drug regulations in Japan amplify longstanding tensions within psychiatric practice, pushing psychiatrists to balance clinical obligations with complex socio‐legal demands. This article analyzes how psychiatrists specializing in illicit substance use disorders to navigate escalating criminalization by developing diagnostic ...
Selim Gokce Atici
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The Rhythmic and the Metronomic: On Charlie Chaplin's Gait
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Matthew Beaumont
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Engineered Identity: Albanian Nationalism and the Limits of Established Nationalism Theories
ABSTRACT This article analyses the development of Albanian nationalism as a test case for assessing the explanatory reach of three major approaches to the study of nationalism: modernist, constructivist and historical‐comparative. Rather than privileging a single theoretical framework, the article places these approaches in dialogue, treating them as ...
Alda Kushi
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ABSTRACT How do the strategies that governments employ when they encounter crisis‐induced turbulence affect the robustness of the political regime in which they operate? Comparative studies of the connection between government strategies and political regime robustness under different cultural and institutional conditions are few and far between.
Eva Sørensen +5 more
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A CENTRAL VAT INVOICE REGISTER AND CHANGES IN PENAL AND FISCAL PENAL LAWS AS A WAY OF LIMITING THE PHENOMENON OF FICTITIOUS INVOICES [PDF]
Anna Ćwiąkała-Małys +1 more
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