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The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.Serious harm in healthcare often results from systemic failures, yet criminal accountability remains largely addressed through homicide law, gross negligence manslaughter and health‐and‐safety offences, frameworks that emphasise individual culpability and are ill‐suited to addressing organisational failings.
Sarah Bennett, Amel Alghrani
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Unnatural Wills: Inheritance Disputes and Inequality
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Within the conceptual frame of relational economic sociology, inheritance disputes are a canonical form of relational mismatch. But the social patterning of relational mismatches, and their various ties to inequality, remain murky. In this paper, I examine all known inheritance disputes in Dallas from 1895–1945 within their social context to ...
Shay O'Brien
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.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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Criminal Records as Classification Situations
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Marion Fourcade and Kieran Healy developed the notion of “classification situations” to describe how ordinal schema that sort and rank individuals, like credit scores, are used to differentiate opportunities, prices, and services in ways that structure life chances while masking inequality as meritocratic.
Lindsay Bing, Sarah Esther Lageson
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ABOUT THE OBLIGATION OF A PROBATION OFFICER TO MAINTAIN PROFESSIONAL SECRECY [PDF]
ProbacjaThis text is devoted to the issue of the probation officer's obligation to maintain secrecy. In the context of the title issue, considerations were made about the status of a probation officer as a profession of public trust, a public official and a ...
Mariusz Nawrocki
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From 15,000 to near zero: Cuyahoga County's eight-year effort to address lawfully "owed" DNA. [PDF]
J Forensic SciAbstract This study presents the final outcomes of an eight‐year, countywide initiative to address “lawfully owed” DNA (LODNA) among individuals who should have had a DNA sample in the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) following a qualifying arrest or conviction but did not.
Lovell RE, Weston MC, Huang D.
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On Probation. An Experimental Analysis [PDF]
Does probation pay a double dividend? Society saves the cost of incarceration, and convicts preserve their liberty. But does probation also reduce the risk of recidivism? In a meta-study we show that the field evidence is inconclusive.
Bernd Irlenbusch +3 more
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The wider network of social relationships and desistance from crime
Criminology, EarlyView.Abstract Prior research has focused on marriage as a key relationship associated with crime cessation. Yet particularly within the contemporary context, relationships with parents, peers, and other family members may also foster or inhibit progress toward desistance.
Peggy C. Giordano +4 more
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Statewide mental health training for probation officers: improving knowledge and decreasing stigma
Health & Justice, 2017 Background The large and growing number of probationers with mental illnesses pose significant challenges to the probationer officers who supervise them.
Nikhil Tomar +6 more
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Layered abandonment: The moral interpretation of suffering in extreme confinement
Criminology, EarlyView.Abstract Loss and rejection are central to prison life, yet how they crystallize into a more general sense of abandonment remains under‐theorized. Drawing on 64 interviews with men held in prolonged self‐isolation or serving indeterminate forvaring sentences in Denmark, we conceptualize abandonment not simply as hardship but as suffering plus ...
Frederik Rom Taxhjelm, Julie Laursen
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