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Between the Eisteddfods: A Journey Through Learning Disability History to Inclusion

open access: yesBritish Journal of Learning Disabilities, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background This paper reports on a participatory project on the social history of learning disability in resonance with current sociocultural discourses with people with learning disabilities, who have commissioned this work as their own original research.
Steven J. Walden   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Governing Through Criminal Selectivity and Lawfare: Non‐Democratic Politics to Entrench Authoritarian Populist Imagination

open access: yesInternational Social Science Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Across much of the Global South and increasingly in the Global North, authoritarian populist imagination blurs boundaries between legality and illegality, weaponising law to suppress dissent while tolerating violence by allied actors. This imagination establishes a symbolic boundary mechanism between punitive/eliminative violence for political
Erman Örsan Yetiş
wiley   +1 more source

Violencia, Estado de derecho y políticas punitivas en América Central

open access: yesPerfiles Latinoamericanos, 2011
Este artículo plantea que los elevados niveles de violencia y criminalidad en el Triángulo Norte de América Central –Guatemala, El Salvador y Honduras–, en presencia de aparatos estatales incapaces de hacer valer el Estado de derecho, está produciendo ...
Verónica De la Torre   +1 more
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Governing Marginality Through Crime: The Cameron Government's ‘Thug State’ Responses to the August 2011 English Riots

open access: yesInternational Social Science Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the British government's response to the August 2011 English riots through the lens of state crime, drawing on Richards and Avery's ‘Thug State’ concept. It addresses the relative neglect of the state's response itself as a potential form of criminality and social harm.
Monia O'Brien Castro
wiley   +1 more source

Technocracy, Supranationalism and Right‐Wing Populism: The Variegated Sheltering of Western Assets in East Central European Countries

open access: yesJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract After the Global Financial Crisis of 2008, European Union (EU) governance has become more tolerant towards national policy adaptation and experimentation. Right‐wing populist governments in East Central Europe (ECE) have used this increased flexibility amongst other things to develop various economically nationalist strategies to reassert ...
Gerhard Schnyder   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Protecting Mental Health Through Spiritual Awareness and Prayer: Insights From Robustness Testing

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Prior research finds that different kinds of religious engagement, including beliefs, practices, and affinities, are associated with lower rates of depressive symptoms. As rates of depression in the United States rise, and more Americans disaffiliate from formal religious organizations, it is worth revisiting whether these associations hold ...
Evan Stewart   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Revisiting Margaret Thatcher's Law and Order agenda: The slow-burning fuse of punitiveness

open access: yes, 2015
In recent years, criminologists have devoted growing attention to the extent to which ‘punitiveness’ is emerging as a central feature of many criminal justice systems.
Hay, C.S.   +6 more
core   +1 more source

Oscillating Whiteness: A Conceptual Framework for Analysing Transnational Ethno‐Racial Privilege

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article advances oscillating whiteness as a conceptual framework for analysing ethno‐racial privilege across geopolitical settings. The framework theorizes whiteness as a dynamic resource governed by four mechanisms: recognition (how bodies are classified as white), performativity (how whiteness is enacted through cultural scripts ...
Reza Hasmath
wiley   +1 more source

Punitiveness: A Philosophical Perspective

open access: yes, 2018
In what respects can philosophical consideration of punitiveness as a sentiment, an attitude, and a motive illuminate whether there is a proper role for it, especially in regard to the context of criminal justice?
Jonathan Jacobs
core   +1 more source

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