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The Legacies of Lockdown: Moral Logics of Exchange and Mistrust in Postpandemic China
Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT When Shanghai entered an extended lockdown under China's Zero‐COVID policy in spring 2022, residents found themselves confined within their residential compounds, cut off from conventional supply chains, and dependent on improvised systems of local provisioning and state rationing. From the perspective of economic anthropology, such conditions
Erika Kuever
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The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract The 1430s were characterized by extreme weather conditions, food and fodder shortages, and high mortalities among animals and humans, although the severity of events and their consequences in England have received limited attention. The economic downturn and the depressed customary land market in this decade marked the beginning of the Great ...
Mark Bailey
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Bargaining with defensive homicide: examining Victoria’s secretive plea bargaining system post-law reform [PDF]
, 2012 The offence of defensive homicide was introduced in Victoria in November 2005 as part of a wider package of homicide law reforms recommended by the Victorian Law Reform Commission (‘VLRC’).
Asher Flynn, Kate Fitz-Gibbon
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Ius PoenaleThe criminal justice process in Indonesia is characterized by lengthy proceedings, significant costs, and a growing prison population, highlighting the need for new policies to address these challenges.
Nabilla Callosa Husin +1 more
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Plea bargain: Term, legal nature and use of the plea bargain as evidence [PDF]
Crimen (Beograd), 2020 Plea bargain is an institute that is used in most different criminal proceedings, and does not represent an issue in matter when a certain criminal event is being related to a single perpetrator of a criminal act.
Blažić-Pavićević Minja
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No Remedy: Injustice and Constrained Citizenship in Indonesia's Plantation Zone
Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This contribution to the special issue examines a constrained version of citizenship in Indonesia's plantation zone. When corporations take hold of village land, residents experience devastating dispossession and a profound sense of injustice, yet they lack effective channels through which to claim rights as citizens or secure remedy from the ...
Tania Murray Li, Pujo Semedi
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Distorting the Prosecution Process: Informers, Mandatory Minimum Sentences, and Wrongful Convictions
Osgoode Hall Law Journal, 2001 As the use of mandatory minimum sentences becomes more common in Canada, it is important to consider a range of potential consequences that are neither intended nor anticipated.
Dianne L. Martin
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Prosecution and Sentencing as an Expression of Moral Judgment in the Face of Homicide
Dilemas: Revista de Estudos de Conflito e Controle Social, 2021 This paper addresses moral meaning of homicide within the criminal justice system, specifically through the procedural acts that reflect the practice of prosecutors and judges in defining homicide, ways for its consummation, circumstances and quantum of ...
Yoana Monsalve-Briceño
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Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how and to what extent violence has become a pivotal tool for conducting business in places integrated into the global value chain. It also explores the roles stakeholders play in silencing workers' resistance within these places.
Shoaib Ahmed
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American Justice: Prosecutorial Discretion in the United States Criminal Justice System
Pensar, 2017 As the only American attorneys charged with seeking justice, prosecutors play an important role and carry a unique burden in the justice system. In the United States, prosecutors are administrators of justice, representing a sovereign whose interest ...
Amie Ely
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