“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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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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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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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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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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Biological synthesis of hybrid silver nanoparticles by Periploca aphylla Dcne. From nanotechnology to biotechnology applications. [PDF]
Arshad S +10 more
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Mental health stigma and legal responses to defendants with mental health conditions in Bulgaria, Japan, and Norway. [PDF]
Gröning L, Dimitrova S, Hirano M.
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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the psychosocial rehabilitation of forensic psychiatric patients in Austria. [PDF]
Koch M +5 more
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Mental Illness and Serious Crime: Analysis of the Judicial Response and the Limitations of the Spanish Penitentiary System. [PDF]
Salmón-Maroto R.
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