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Ethnoscapes of Exile: Political Prisoners from Indochina in a Colonial Asian World
International Review for Social History, 2018 During the French colonization of Indochina (1863–1954), approximately 8,000 prisoners – many of them convicted of political crimes – were exiled to twelve different geographical locations throughout the French empire. Many of these prisoners came from a
Lorraine Paterson
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Pas de mouvement abolitionniste sans nous !
Criminocorpus, 2019 This article focuses on abolitionist movements and relatives of prisoners, in particular in France. It draws upon the political experience of the author and abolitionist and feminist analysis. It examines the role of relatives of prisoners (in particular
Gwenola Ricordeau
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Communities and Counterterrorism, 2017 While a considerable amount of research has been conducted on community-based initiatives aimed at preventing violence, including the role of the ex-political prisoner community in preventative and counterterrorism work, little is known about how the ex ...
Carmel Joyce, O. Lynch
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The role of ex-paramilitaries and former prisoners in political tourism
Political Geography, 2020 Northern Ireland has a turbulent history, enduring 30 years of violence known as ‘The Troubles’. Streets in Belfast that were once ‘no-go’ areas are now popular tourist attractions. They are the sites of assassinations, attempted murders and memorials to
Melissa Nisbett, J. Rapson
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Travessias, 2020 Inscribed in the broad framework of resistance literature to the Brazilian civil-military dictatorship, the poetry of ex-political prisoners still occupies a marginal place in primary bibliographies and critical studies on the literary production of ...
Thales de Medeiros Ribeiro
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Psychological research of fomer political prisoners
Genocidas ir Rezistencija, 2002 In the initial phase of the research, political prisoners were studied to assess the effects of political repression, as they can be considered the most traumatised group of all victims of Soviet repression.
Evaldas Kazlauskas
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In Australia, governments fund Community Legal Centres (CLCs) as part of the legal assistance sector (LAS) to meet the ‘legal needs’ of people experiencing disadvantage who cannot afford private legal services. Persistent unmet demand for CLCs is well‐documented. As artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly used in private legal practice to
Catherine Hastings +2 more
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Genealogy+Critique, 2018 In the mid-1970s Foucault's work on the birth of the prison entered contemporary debates about the prison in Spain in various instances. Reading Foucault's writings and their Spanish reception next to each other, it becomes clear that one question ...
Lucia Herrmann
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The Last Door: Political Prisoners and the Use of Torture in Mexico's Dirty War
Americas, 2016 In December 1969, former President Lázaro Cárdenas sent a letter to political prisoners in the Lecumberri federal penitentiary in Mexico City, assuring them that he would continue to lobby for their release. In October 1973, Michoacán university students
G. McCormick
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The rapid increase in older people in prison populations worldwide is generating significant health, cost, and human rights pressures on custodial systems. Compassionate release for older, frail inmates is a potentially effective response, yet little is known about public support for this approach.
Ye In (Jane) Hwang +3 more
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