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Political Psychology, Volume 46, Issue 6, Page 2007-2023, December 2025.Abstract Right‐wing authoritarianism (RWA) and social dominance orientation (SDO) are routinely used to predict punitiveness and believed by some to form the dispositional basis of punitive attitudes toward offenders. The measures of punishment preferences employed in this line of research show conceptual overlap with RWA items and could have biased ...
Andrzej Uhl +2 more
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Hotels, refuge, and the rise of carceral hospitality
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 50, Issue 4, December 2025.Abstract Geographical work on hotels has foregrounded their role as spaces of commercial hospitality, leisure, and increasingly as sites of emergency accommodation for a range of displaced groups. Developing such work, this paper critically examines the central role of hotels in accommodating and containing asylum seekers and refugees.
Jonathan Darling, Andrew Burridge
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Inseguridad y "populismo penal"
Urvio, 2014 En este artículo, nos proponemos reflexionar acerca del modo en que se presentan las discusiones y las intervenciones en torno al problema de la “inseguridad” en Argentina y, a partir de allí repensar la pertinencia de la noción de “populismo penal”.
Karina Mouzo
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Overuse of Pretrial Detention in tension with Judicial and Prison Reforms in the Dominican Republic
Latin American Law Review, 2020 In 2003, the Dominican Republic began to shift towards an adversarial judicial model and has implemented one of the region’s most ambitious reforms to its prison system, based on rehabilitative and human rights principles.
Jennifer Peirce
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Punishment in society: the improbable persistence of probation and other community sanctions and measures [PDF]
, 2012 This paper aims to explore and explain the key "adaptations" by which community sanctions have sought legitimacy in the wake of the decline of penal welfarism and of the rehabilitative ideal.
Maruna, S., McNeill, F., Robinson, G.
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Stop in the Law of the Name! Nominative Lawmaking, Populism and Justice
The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 4, Page 627-634, October/December 2025.Abstract Nominative laws—laws named after particular victims of violence or injustice such as Martyn's Law, Sarah's Law and Awaab's Law—have become increasingly prominent in the UK. In this article, we offer the first sustained attempt to explore this phenomenon and its social, political and legal significance. Two contributions are made.
Lee Jarvis, Michael Lister, Alex Powell
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LanguagesThis applied linguistics study on the lay discourse about legal language analyses online public reactions to a court decision in the Sarah Halimi case, a French Jewish woman killed by her neighbour in Paris in 2017. This study draws on discourse analysis
Nadia Makouar
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Racket sociality: investigating intimidation in North India
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 3, Page 771-788, September 2025.This article is an ethnographic investigation into acts of intimidation and threats. Theoretically, it dialogues with ‘racket’ – a key analytical term in the sociology of domination, state‐making, and mafias. The anthropology of power, violence, and crime has paid scant attention to the morphology of threats and the ways interpersonal intimidation ...
Lucia Michelutti
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What Do We Know About How Processes of Desistance Vary by Ethnicity?
The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, Volume 64, Issue 3, Page 279-294, September 2025.ABSTRACT This paper reviews what is known about ethnic identity and the processes by which people cease offending. Whilst the past 30 years have seen dramatic growth in what is known about desistance, in many jurisdictions, there is a paucity of research which examines this in terms of ethnicity or ethnic variations.
Stephen Farrall +3 more
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Socio‐legal studies and criminal justice: Reflections on ‘participation’
Journal of Law and Society, Volume 52, Issue S1, Page S121-S133, September 2025.Abstract The Journal of Law and Society (JLS) is nationally and internationally recognised for its ground‐breaking contribution to shaping understandings of the relationship between law and society. We relished the opportunity to come together to reflect upon ‘participation’ and its relationship to criminal justice as part of the JLS 50th anniversary ...
AMY KIRBY, LUCY WELSH
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