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Local Elites in Chile's Pisco Valley: Dispossession, Legal Mobilisation and Intertwined Citizenship

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In countries in the Global South, citizenship is often closely tied to access to water and land ownership. In Latin America, the literature has primarily explored social mobilisation and identity reconfiguration in response to development‐driven processes of land and water dispossession affecting peasants, rural and Indigenous communities ...
Chloé Nicolas‐Artero
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Efficiency in the Global Prison System: A Systematic Literature Review and Bibliometric Analysis

Journal of Economic Surveys, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study systematizes the international literature on prison system efficiency, highlighting patterns and research gaps through a multidimensional framework. By situating efficiency within broader institutional, social, and rights‐based contexts, it examines how academic research has assessed carceral performance.
Leandro Moreira, Enzo Barberio Mariano, Diogo Ferraz   +2 more
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The Place of History in British Criminology: 20th‐Century Developments

Sociology Lens, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 16-30, March 2025.
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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Field Theory and Colonialism: Indirect Colonial Situation as a Social Field in Egypt (1882–1922)

Sociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper argues that Egypt under British rule (1882–1922) constituted a field of power in which the local state of Egypt and the British administration competed to dominate three key subfields to ensure control over a contested territory: the modern courts system, policing, and agricultural production.
Mehdi Hoseini
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Privilege Versus Right: Vigilantism Against Israel's Palestinian Citizens

Sociology Lens, EarlyView.
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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Community Service Order as the Embodiment of Social Justice Values in the Indonesian Penal System

Pancasila and Law Review
Community Service Order an alternative sentencing aimed at reducing dependence on imprisonment while restoring social balance within the community.
Didik Purnomo, Anis Widyawati, Rasdi Rasdi   +2 more
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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.
europepmc   +1 more source

Law as a technology of exclusion: the legal construction of racialized and gendered work relations through the case study of international labour law in the first half of the twentieth century

Journal of Law and Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores the role of labour law in processes of racialization and gendering of work. It argues that labour law not only protects certain forms of work (law as a protective mechanism), but also systematically excludes other forms of work, especially those performed by racialized and gendered individuals (law as a technology of ...
JULIETA LOBATO
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Aufsätze /Articles. Ausgrenzung im Dienst der „Auslese“ – Jugendstrafvollzug im „Dritten Reich“

Totalitarismus und Demokratie
Despite the significantly stricter conditions of detention after 1933 and the sometimes sporadic, sometimes frequent mistreatment of inmates that has also been proven for the penal system, the (juvenile) penal system (with the exception of prison camps ...
Petra Götte
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Becoming legal: feminism and abortion law in 1970s Italy

Journal of Law and Society, EarlyView.
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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