Bifurcating Relief and Legitimating Mass Incarceration: An Analysis of Obama's Clemency Initiative
ABSTRACT In April 2014, then‐President Barack Obama announced an initiative to grant clemency to thousands of federal prisoners serving long sentences for non‐violent crimes, targeting a reduction in racial disparities in drug‐crime sentences. Critiques of the initiative's implementation abound, but 1715 people ultimately received clemency—more than ...
Elena Amaya +3 more
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Effective wildlife law enforcement is important in the drive for biodiversity conservation. This study examined the challenges of wildlife law enforcement in Oyo and Lagos States of Nigeria across four security outfits (Nigerian Police Force [NPF], Nigerian Customs Service [NCS], National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency ...
Oluwatosin Mercy Dada +2 more
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Needed to Regional Cooperation to Combat People Smuggling in Indonesian Waters
People smuggling is a growing global crime that exposes thousands of migrants to unacceptable risks and challenges the integrity of international borders. In the last two decades, globalization and conflicts have seen an increase international migration flows. People smuggling is not a new phenomenon in Indonesia.
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A Deadly Journey for Children: The Central Mediterranean Migration Route [PDF]
A new report from UNICEF - 'A Deadly Journey for Children: The Central Mediterranean Migrant Route' - provides an in-depth look at the extreme risks facing refugee and migrant children as they make the perilous journey from sub-Saharan Africa into Libya ...
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Contextual Analysis of Timber Smuggling in the East of Mazandaran Province [PDF]
Extended abstract Background: Destruction of environmental resources is one of the serious challenges in today's societies. However, some of these resources seem to be more destructed in developing countries. Forests are constantly being destroyed as one
Hossein Pourhossein +4 more
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TRENDS IN MIGRATION TO IRELAND OF NATIONALS OF COUNTRIES WITH VISA LIBERALISATION AGREEMENTS WITH THE EUROPEAN UNION. ESRI SURVEY AND STATISTICAL REPORT SERIES, August 2019 [PDF]
The synthesis report presents an analysis of the impact in terms of direct and indirect benefits, as well as challenges. Tourism is considered a direct benefit, as tourism is one of the purposes of a short-stay visa. There was a rise in tourists from the
Groarke, Sarah, Sheridan, Anne
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Winston Churchill and France: A Certain Ideal
Abstract This article examines relations between Winston Churchill and France. It argues that Churchill was sympathetic to France and, in particular, unusual among Englishmen of his generation in being sympathetic to its political system, but also that this sympathy did not make Churchill consistent in his relations with France.
Richard Vinen
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Forced labour and migration to the UK [PDF]
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Anderson, Bridget, Rogaly, Ben
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Weaponizing Nature, Naturalizing Violence: Anthropologies of Ecofascism
ABSTRACT After decades of denial and obstruction, the global Right is increasingly willing to acknowledge that climate change is a threat to lives and lifeways everywhere. Moreover, some seize on the specter of ecological collapse to advance fascistic politics.
Chloe Ahmann +7 more
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Trading Zones Between Thick and Thin: Anthropological Description as Scaffold or Mosaic
ABSTRACT Referring to the work of historian of science Peter Galison, I argue that anthropology requires thin description as an essential counterpart for thick description. Thin accounts provide the scaffolding within which thick descriptions sit. Galison uses the idea of a “trading zone” connecting different communities who, despite their differences (
David Zeitlyn
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