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Nordic legal overseers and institutional openness in crises: Challenges and adaptation during the COVID‐19 pandemic

open access: yesScandinavian Political Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract We analyze challenges and adaptation strategies of Nordic legal overseers, the Parliamentary Ombudsmen and Chancellors of Justice in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, amid the COVID‐19 crisis. We study how the accountability capacities of the legal overseers were affected when standard practices of inclusive decision‐making were severed ...
Tero Erkkilä   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Prisoners and Prisons

open access: yesJournal of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology, 1929
openaire   +2 more sources

Where do nomads bury their dead? Necro‐ostracism, statelessness, and the pastoral/ peripatetic divide in Afghanistan

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article proposes that stigmas connected to social categories of exclusion prevalent during life extend into dealings with the dead, here referred to as ‘necro‐ostracism’, in the context of death and burial of Muslim nomadic populations in urban Afghanistan. Based on qualitative fieldwork carried out in Kabul, Herat, and Mazar‐e Sharif, it explores
Annika Schmeding
wiley   +1 more source

Racket sociality: investigating intimidation in North India

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article is an ethnographic investigation into acts of intimidation and threats. Theoretically, it dialogues with ‘racket’ – a key analytical term in the sociology of domination, state‐making, and mafias. The anthropology of power, violence, and crime has paid scant attention to the morphology of threats and the ways interpersonal intimidation ...
Lucia Michelutti
wiley   +1 more source

PREVALENCIA Y DETERMINANTES DE LAS INFECCIONES VAGINALES EN LAS MUJERES RECLUIDAS EN UNA CÁRCEL COLOMBIANA

open access: yesRevista Chilena de Obstetricia y Ginecología, 2009
Objetivo: Determinar la prevalencia y los factores determinantes de las infecciones vaginales en mujeres recluidas en una cárcel de Bucaramanga, Colombia. Método: Estudio de corte transversal.
Nahyr López-Barbosa   +3 more
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