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Is there a ‘right’ to use Welsh in prison?

Journal of Law and Society, EarlyView.
Abstract The use of the Welsh language is generally understood as a ‘right’ in contemporary Wales. While this right is often lauded as one of Welsh devolution's defining achievements, the efficacy of current protections is contested. This article contributes to the debate by focusing on the prison context, where the question of Welsh language rights is
GREGORY DAVIES, ROBERT JONES
wiley   +1 more source

Organized Crime, Corruption, and Economic Growth

Journal of Regional Science, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 535-560, March 2025.
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, Andrea Mario Lavezzi, Giovanni Trovato   +2 more
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¿Subversión o hegemonía cultural? Clemencia para los esclavos condenados a muerte en Virginia, 1800-1860 Subversion or Cultural Hegemony? Leniency for Slaves Condemned to Death in Virginia, 1800-1860

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
doaj  

Do Intoxicated Offenders Deserve Harsher Sentences? Questioning Veritas in Vino

Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Criminal courts increasingly treat intoxication as an aggravating rather than a mitigating factor in sentencing. This shift, seen in Australian law and other jurisdictions, raises the prospect of unjust outcomes. We examine this trend through the lens of desert‐based justifications for punishment, setting aside questions of deterrence and ...
Mary Jean Walker, Daniel B. Cohen
wiley   +1 more source

Does self‐concept adjustment towards perceived social images predict recidivism? A longitudinal test of (one pathway of) the labelling hypothesis

Legal and Criminological Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Purpose This study investigated a possible mechanism of the labelling effect. Method In a longitudinal study with a cohort of N = 836 first‐time incarcerated young men, it was tested whether the perceived label as deviant by others would predict future recidivism and second, whether adaptation of the actual self‐concept to the perceived view ...
Karla Marek, Daniela Hosser, Werner Greve   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The psychiatric fix

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
wiley   +1 more source

Straddling “The Gulf Between Medicine and Law”: Medico‐legal addiction and Japanese psychiatry

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Harm and governance of prisons’ systemic overcrowding

Oñati Socio-Legal Series
Overcrowding has been on the national policy agendas of many jurisdictions for decades. While many other aspects of punishment are largely investigated as penal policy-related issues, overcrowding has not received the same attention.
Simone Santorso
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“Why can't they put us to sleep if we are suffering?”: La Nada and the desire for euthanasia among institutionalized older adults in Peru

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, I examine how institutionalized older adults in Peru articulate suffering through the idiom of la nada—“nothingness”—and how this shapes desires for euthanasia. Moving from close ethnography of bodies in space and time to structural and ethical discourses on euthanasia, I argue that calls for euthanasia arise not only from ...
Magdalena Zegarra Chiappori
wiley   +1 more source

“They need to get a new program”: Experiential frictions with the gender of care in the 12 step program for ethnically Mexican women

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Using gender as an analytic, I parse out how the historical gendered, classed, and racialized roots of the 12 Step Program remain present in its therapeutic model, even in global contexts beyond its original formulation. These foundations continue to shape therapeutic logics and experience within the Program, in positive and negative ways.
Ellen E. Kozelka
wiley   +1 more source