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“A minimum of domination”—the overt normative orientation of Foucault's work
Abstract Answering the charge of ‘crypto‐normativity’ that has long overshadowed Michel Foucault's work, I argue that this work is animated by an overt normative orientation to keep domination to a minimum. This orientation operates both at the level of content and form.
Fabian Freyenhagen
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Exploring and Explaining the Use and Proliferation of Whole Life Orders in England and Wales
ABSTRACT Whole life orders (WLOs) represent the power of the state to inflict harm at its most extreme, with such sentences being found to be in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights. However, very little research has endeavoured to understand the use of WLOs.
Hannah Gilman, Jake Phillips
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Poglądy Romualda Hubego na karę
Romuald Hube (1803-1890) est connu comme auteur de nombreux travaux concernant le droit pénal et en particulier du premier manuel scientifique du droit pénal polonais.
Alicja Grześkowiak
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Culture of Revenge: Analysing Blood Revenge in Pakistan's Tribal Areas
ABSTRACT Revenge is a widespread phenomenon present in every culture. It is defined as a motivated retaliation against an offense or wrongdoing perceived as harmful or a violation of moral norms. Previous psychological research views revenge as an expressive action done for personal satisfaction.
Muhammad Asif +3 more
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The Swedish Penal Code of 1965 [PDF]
Colombo City is the commercial capital of Sri Lanka with an estimated resident population of over 750,000 spread over 3741 hectares (ha) and has a population density over 1188 per ha.
Panagoda Arachchige Kumara, Omalaka Danushka +1 more
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ABSTRACT This article examines the death penalty in Malaysia, where foreign nationals have historically been sentenced to death at a disproportionately high rate. The international community has recognised that foreign defendants are disadvantaged in alien criminal justice systems and made efforts to address this through the United Nation's Vienna ...
Carolyn Hoyle, Lucy Harry
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The Place of History in British Criminology: 20th‐Century Developments
ABSTRACT While the relevance of historical research and analysis for the development of a critical criminology in the United States in the 1970s has recently received some attention by historical criminologists, the place of history in British criminology—and British critical criminology in particular—remains a largely unexplored area of academic ...
Roberto Catello
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Privilege Versus Right: Vigilantism Against Israel's Palestinian Citizens
ABSTRACT This article addresses three core questions: What is the social origin of vigilantism? How do vigilantes justify extra‐legal violence and intimidation? What are vigilantism's long‐term effects? The analysis focuses on a period in which Israel's Palestinian‐Arab citizens increased their access to legal rights, social mobility, spatial ...
Gershon Shafir, Beatrice Waterhouse
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CONDITIONAL DISCONTINUANCE OF CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS AS A PENAL MEASURE IN THE FISCAL PENAL CODE [PDF]
The study contains an analysis of the legal nature of conditional discontinuance of criminal proceedings against perpetrators of fiscal offences. The aim of the research is to determine whether conditional discontinuance of criminal proceedings included ...
Sebastian Kowalski
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Becoming legal: feminism and abortion law in 1970s Italy
Abstract Conventional top‐down approaches to legal reform tend to overlook the contributions of social movements in legal change, often resulting in a gender‐blind analysis. In response, I advance ‘becoming legal’ as an analytical framework to rethink legal change in terms of a bottom‐up process encompassing informal proceedings as well as formal ...
ELENA CARUSO
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