What Is Justice? Reflections on the Criminal Justice System in Brazil
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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The health system accountability impact of prison health committees in Zambia
Background From 2013, the Zambian Corrections Service (ZCS) worked with partners to strengthen prison health systems and services. One component of that work led to the establishment of facility-based Prison Health Committees (PrHCs) comprising of both ...
Stephanie M. Topp +5 more
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What about the bright side? A systematic review of psychosocial antecedents of well-being among forensic healthcare workers. [PDF]
Abstract Forensic healthcare workers (FHWs) are highly susceptible to work‐related stress and declining well‐being due to frequent interactions with forensic patients, who often exhibit violent behavior. While much of the existing literature has centered on the factors that predict ill‐being among FHWs, such as stress and burnout levels, fewer studies ...
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Adding Insult to Injury? The Untoward Impact of Requiring More than De Minimus Injury in an Eighth Amendment Excessive Force Case [PDF]
This Note explores the conflict over whether a prisoner must suffer more than de minimis injury to sustain an Eighth Amendment excessive force claim. It examines this conflict against the backdrop of the various standards the U.S.
Hoffman, Robyn D.
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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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Releasing Authority Chairs: A Comparative Snapshot Across Three Decades [PDF]
This report provides a comparative analysis of releasing authority chairs' views of the issues and challenges confronting them at two points in time: 1988 and 2015.
Ebony Ruhland +3 more
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Reading “Women Don’t Riot” After the Riot: Creating a University-Prison Collaboration [PDF]
We examine a case study of a collaboration between a University and a Women’s Correctional Institution: an Inside Out college course that brings together incarcerated and traditional students. We analyze the creation of a class in the aftermath of a riot
Leon, Chrysanthi S., Perez, Graciela
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Family Matters: Exploring the Link Between Parental and Executive Financial Misconduct
ABSTRACT Using a novel data set of misconduct records for Finnish CEOs and directors and their parents, we explore whether corporate executives’ financial misconduct is associated with similar behavior by their parents. Controlling for various other factors of executive financial misconduct, we find that executives are significantly more likely to ...
JENNI KALLUNKI +4 more
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PERJALANAN MENUJU PUNCAK AGRESI: STUDI FENOMENOLOGI-FORENSIK PADA REMAJA PELAKU PEMBUNUHAN
Murder is essentially the culmination of an aggression which is still be a blind spot for the civilization of mankind. The incidence is quite high, but studies that specifically review it are still small.
Achmad Mujab Masykur, Subandi Subandi
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Emotional Climate among Prisoners and Prison Officers [PDF]
Emotional climate refers to predominant and relatively stable collective emotions generated through the social interaction of a social group’s members in a particular milieu. This study aims to compare how prisoners and prison officers perceive the feelings of their group members in the situation constructed by the same organisation – prison. Data were
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