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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
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The Role of Religious Belief and Sentencing Decisions in a UK Sample
Journal of Personality, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective This is a stage 1 registered report submission that seeks to examine whether religious belief and a range of other individual differences variables are associated with youth justice preferences. Method As this is a stage 1 registered report, these are liable to change.
Isaac Halstead, Alex Lloyd
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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 +2 more
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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
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[Compulsory medication of people with mental disorders in the penal system : The situation in Germany and recommendations for clinical practice]. [PDF]
Nervenarzt, 2021 Fuß J, Marquardt I, Briken P, Konrad N.
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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 +2 more
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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
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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
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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
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