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History, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the conceptual vocabulary through which violence against women during the Spanish Civil War has been interpreted, with particular attention to the longstanding predominance of the category ‘sexed violence’ (violencia sexuada).
SABINA MOMPÓ TORIBIO
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Shadow Citizens: Felony Disenfranchisement and the Criminalization of Debt [PDF]
, 2012 The disenfranchisement of felons has long been challenged as anti-democratic and disproportionately harmful to communities of color. Critiques of this practice have led to the gradual liberalization of state laws that expand voting rights for those who ...
Cammett, Ann
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In this article I dissect the spatial strategies through which the Spanish attempted to orchestrate both racial difference and similarity in the African colonies of Morocco, Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea during the first half of the twentieth century.
Pol Fité Matamoros
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What Is Justice? Reflections on the Criminal Justice System in Brazil
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay explores the possibility of justice for the wretched of the earth. Using escrevivência (writing the experience/existence) and drawing on the theoretical insights and political praxis of the Assessoria Popular Maria Felipa (APMF, Maria Felipa Advocacy Group)—a Brazilian abolitionist organization led by Black activists—we analyze how ...
Fernanda Oliveira +2 more
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Executive Order 13492: Legal Borderlands [PDF]
, 2016 On January 22, 2009, newly inaugurated President Barack Obama implemented Executive Order 13492. The order refers to the legal disposition of detainees at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base and the termination of the detention center.
Diaz, Laura
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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Centralization to Consolidation: Some Historical Antecedents of Unified Correctional Systems [PDF]
, 1995 Autonomous prisons in the nineteenth century were often inefficient and highly political. Many state legislatures and governors attempted to move toward centralized control of their state facilities. In the twentieth century the Federal Bureau of Prisons
Schafer, N. E.
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Sharing the Same Playground? An Analysis of the Private Sector's Role in Tech Diplomacy
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article takes the emergence of tech diplomacy as the motivation for an investigation into shifting relationships between traditional diplomatic actors and non‐state actors. The observation that ‘new diplomatic actors’ and new diplomatic venues have led to a ‘new kind of diplomacy’ dates back to at least the 1990s.
Katharina E. Höne
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Unpacking China's Digital Ascent in the Global South: The Case of Huawei in North Africa
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite frequent concerns in Western policy and media circles about the risks of using Chinese telecommunications suppliers, firms like Huawei have encountered little resistance from governments or citizens in the Global South. Empirical research explaining this acceptance remains limited.
Tin Hinane El Kadi
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Learning to Escape: Prison Education, Rehabilitation and the Potential for Transformation [PDF]
, 2014 This article examines motivations behind participation in education based on interviews with Irish prisoners. It begins by considering the relationship between education and rehabilitation, especially the latter’s re-emergence in a more authoritarian ...
Behan, Cormac
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