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Front‐Footed Defense: Leveraging Early Counsel Intervention for Expedited Justice

Law &Policy, Volume 48, Issue 2, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Contemporary criminal justice systems have increasingly prioritized efficiency as a key guiding principle in their institutional processes. This research examines the role of defense counsel to analyze whether and how lawyers strategically adapt their advocacy methods as they balance the demands of procedural efficiency with their professional
Chengchen He, Enshen Li
wiley   +1 more source

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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Victims' rights in criminal trials: prospects for participation [PDF]

, 2005
Victims in common law jurisdictions have traditionally been unable to participate in criminal trials for a number of structural and normative reasons. They are widely perceived as ‘private parties’ whose role should be confined to that of witnesses; and ...
Doak, J
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Imagining Justice Transformation in Aotearoa: Possibilities and Pitfalls

Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online, Volume 21, Issue 1, March 2026.
It is well‐noted that for as long as there have been prisons, there has been continued resistance to their use and calls for alternatives. Debates amongst advocates for change in the justice system fixate on whether prison reform or abolition is the answer. This article engages with narratives from 16 semi‐structured interviews with people who advocate
Grace Gordon
wiley   +1 more source

Public Discourse on Criminal Responsibility and Its Impact on Political-Legal Decisions: Analysing the (Re-)Appropriation of the Language of Law in the Sarah Halimi Case

Languages
This 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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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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The Bureaucracy versus Post‐Bureaucracy Paradox in Public Administration: A Historical Perspective on the Selection and Training of Public Managers

Public Administration, Volume 104, Issue 1, Page 33-54, March 2026.
ABSTRACT In the historical trajectory of public administration (PA), bureaucratic and post‐bureaucratic models have competed and coexisted in unstable relations. Recent studies have put forward the idea that those models constitute two poles of the paradox.
Marta Ingaggiati, Marco Guerci, Giovanni Barbato, Renato Ruffini   +3 more
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Continuities in policy change: The case of squatter housing redevelopment strategies in Türkiye

Review of Policy Research, Volume 43, Issue 1, January 2026.
Abstract The introduction of the neoliberal agenda in the 1980s marked a milestone for urban studies, where the neoliberal framework became widely accepted as both given and explanatory for understanding urban phenomena. This tendency often obscured policy continuities rooted in the historical and social contexts of specific geographies.
Fatma Süphan Somalı, Ufuk Poyraz
wiley   +1 more source

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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The authoritarian personality model of punitiveness is inconsistent in predicting punishment preferences: A sentencing vignette study in a representative sample from six countries

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, Malia M. Marks, Paweł Ostaszewski   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source