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Secuencia, 2011 La política penal hacia los esclavos en Virginia atravesó un proceso de reformas durante las décadas anteriores a la guerra civil. Aunque el código para esclavos era excesivamente severo, en la práctica las autoridades mitigaron su dureza mediante la ...
Gerardo Gurza Lavalle
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Issues of Interaction of Penitentiary Agencies and Institutions with the Departments on Combating Crime in Ukraine and Poland [PDF]
, 2017 Bailov, A. V. Issues of Interaction of Penitentiary Agencies and Institutions with the Departments onCombating Crime in Ukraine and Poland [Електронний ресурс] / Anton V. Bailov, Ivan O. Romanchuk // Журнал східноєвропейського права. – 2017. – № 38. – С.
Bailov, A. V. +4 more
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Medical 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
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, 2019 In recent years various pleas for, and attempts to developing comparative, global and even cosmopolitan criminology have been launched. Against this background, the phenomenon of policy transfer received some attention. This research project aims to contribute to the emerging stream of research on policy transfer within criminology.
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Public Administration, EarlyView.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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Suspended Sentences and Free-Standing Probation Orders in U.S. Guidelines Systems: A Survey and Assessment [PDF]
, 2010 Much academic attention has been directed towards management models, but there is limited research into the details of how these models are put to use in organizations.
Elg, Mattias, Langstrand, Jostein
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Contextualising Hohfeld's Analysis of Rights: Legal Relations and the Rule of Law
Ratio Juris, EarlyView.Abstract More than a century ago, W. N. Hohfeld offered the most influential analysis of rights to date. However, his classification has rarely been received without criticism. Many of the objections to his framework stem from the longstanding debate between interest and will theories of rights.
Paulo Baptista Caruso MacDonald
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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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Restoration Ecology, EarlyView.Introduction A growing number of countries have adopted legislation that recognizes nature as a subject of rights. The purpose of many rights‐of‐nature laws is linked to restoring biodiversity and ecosystems. Consequently, an ecosystem's right to restoration has emerged as a substantive right of nature.
Mariam C. Kanyama
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Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT For the law to function effectively in society, it must not only be enforced but also promote compliance, particularly in emotionally charged, polarized, or uncertain situations. This study explores the impact of legal sanction stringency and perceived sanction risk on the perceived legitimacy of and willingness to comply with mandatory ...
David Lacko +2 more
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