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Challenging Parole Decisions in England and Wales: Reconsideration and Set Aside

open access: yesThe Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
Of all the reforms to parole in England and Wales that were introduced after the furore surrounding the 2017 decision to direct the release of the so‐called ‘Black cab rapist’, John Worboys, perhaps the most important was the creation in 2019 of a reconsideration mechanism which obliges the Parole Board (on application) to take a second look at ...
Stephen Shute
wiley   +1 more source

Penal Modernization in the Western Balkans: Continuities and Changes since the Nineteenth Century

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Influential sociologists of social control, including Émile Durkheim, Max Weber and others, conceived of the modern state as progressively moving towards the humanization of its penal programme. This article highlights developments that do not easily fit this progressivist model, drawing attention to the region that today is often referred to ...
Olga Kantokoski
wiley   +1 more source

A ‘Wholly Unjustifiable Treatment of British Subject’? The Detention of W. T. Goode in the Baltic, 1919

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract In the summer of 1919, W. T. Goode, the Manchester Guardian’s special correspondent in Russia and the Baltic, was arrested in the Estonian capital Tallinn and briefly detained aboard a British warship. Goode's detention caused a furore, leading to accusations of kidnap, heated commentary in the press and questions in parliament.
Colin Storer
wiley   +1 more source

Black Families, Damned Territories: Anti‐Blackness and Black Motherhood in (White) Portuguese Parliamentary Debates (1995–2001)

open access: yesAntipode, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract The perceptions and representations of whiteness around motherhood, family, and black sexuality reproduce the logic of what Hortense Spillers calls “captive flesh”, controlling understandings about femininity, motherhood, and gender. This debate is guided by the politics of the racial neoliberal agenda that works to control the urban ...
Danielle Pereira de Araújo
wiley   +1 more source

TERRITORIALIZING POWER: The Politics of Presidential Projects in Antananarivo, Madagascar

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Large‐scale infrastructure projects have become a defining feature of African urbanism. The study of the surge in infrastructure investments has largely been conducted against the backdrop of a purported ‘neoliberal global modernity’ in which cities compete to attract international investments.
Fanny Voélin, Lars Buur
wiley   +1 more source

Prisoners and Prisons

open access: yesJournal of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology, 1929
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SAND, PLANTATION URBANISM AND THE EXTENDED POLITICAL ECOLOGY OF INFRASTRUCTURES IN INDIA

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Recently, large parts of India and the global South have witnessed widespread sand extraction from rural sites for urban infrastructure projects, causing extensive environmental damage. Critical scholarship has theorized these sites as new extractive frontiers that facilitate the needs of green energy transitions and planetary urbanization. In
Siddharth Menon
wiley   +1 more source

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