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Racially Hegemonic Articulations: Class as Race in Constructions of Dominance in an Undergraduate Architecture Studio

Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article responds to recent debates in this journal surrounding raciolinguistics and potential pitfalls of siloing of race and reproducing essentialism in the scholarship of language and race. Using Stuart Hall's theory of articulation, it provides an anti‐essentialist linguistic ethnographic analysis of identity construction in a UK ...
Steve Dixon‐Smith
wiley   +1 more source

A sentencing exception? Changing sentencing policy in Scotland [PDF]

, 2010
This article reviews developments in penal policy and to sentencing reform in Scotland over the last decade. The devolved government was established in 1999 following the first elections to a Scottish Parliament. Despite being part of the United Kingdom,
Hutton, Neil, Tata, Cyrus
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Do Intoxicated Offenders Deserve Harsher Sentences? Questioning Veritas in Vino

Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Criminal courts increasingly treat intoxication as an aggravating rather than a mitigating factor in sentencing. This shift, seen in Australian law and other jurisdictions, raises the prospect of unjust outcomes. We examine this trend through the lens of desert‐based justifications for punishment, setting aside questions of deterrence and ...
Mary Jean Walker, Daniel B. Cohen
wiley   +1 more source

Gangs, violence, and fear: punitive Darwinism in El Salvador. [PDF]

Crime Law Soc Change, 2023
Rosen JD, Cutrona S, Lindquist K.
europepmc   +1 more source

Crime that ‘Withered Away?’ Democratic Backsliding and Non-Punitive Populism

International Criminology
Abstract The article explores the relationship between democratic backsliding and governance of crime. By focusing on Serbia, which began to democratize in 2000 but started to backslide already in 2012, the article argues that governance of crime has been largely insulated from the damaging impact of the overall process of democratic ...
openaire   +1 more source

Unpacking Populist Secessionism: Elite Discourse and Mass Attitudes in Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While political leaders increasingly combine populist and secessionist appeals, systematic evidence remains lacking regarding their effectiveness in mobilizing public support. Drawing on original survey data from Republika Srpska in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where leader Milorad Dodik employs populist‐secessionist rhetoric, this study finds that
Semir Dzebo
wiley   +1 more source

Penal policy and prisoner rates in Scandinavia [PDF]

, 2007
Aineisto on Keskustakampuksen kirjaston digitoimaa ja kirjasto vastaa aineiston ...
Lappi-Seppälä, Tapio
core  

Moral Panics and Punctuated Equilibrium in Public Policy: An Analysis of the Criminal Justice Policy Agenda in Britain [PDF]

, 2017
How and when issues are elevated onto the political agenda is a perennial question in the study of public policy. This article considers how moral panics contribute to punctuated equilibrium in public policy by drawing together broader societal anxieties
Farrall, S., Gray, E., Hay, C.S., Jennings, W.   +3 more
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Explicit Tolerance and Implicit Exclusion: A Study on National Identity in Sweden

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While people in many Western countries report increasingly tolerant and inclusive attitudes, minorities continue to face considerable, and in some cases growing, discrimination and exclusion. In this paper, I propose that the gap may stem from a discrepancy between explicit attitudes and more automatic, implicit attitudes. Most people may want
Filip Olsson
wiley   +1 more source

Victims' rights in criminal trials: prospects for participation [PDF]

, 2005
Victims in common law jurisdictions have traditionally been unable to participate in criminal trials for a number of structural and normative reasons. They are widely perceived as ‘private parties’ whose role should be confined to that of witnesses; and ...
Doak, J
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