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Before It Was ‘New’: A Neglected History of Lived Experience–Led Criminal Justice
The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A growing range of criminal justice initiatives are being shaped and delivered by people with lived experience, including peer mentoring, prisoner councils and policy advocacy roles. While often seen as recent innovations, we reveal a deeper, largely unacknowledged history dating back to at least the 19th century.
Gillian Buck +2 more
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The Abolition of the Hadd from Protected non-Muslim Fornicator after Accepting Islam in Islamic Jurisprudence and Iranian Law [PDF]
آموزههای حقوق کیفری کشورهای اسلامیOne of the reasons for implementing the hadd of killing is the fornication of a protected non-Muslim man with a Muslim woman. A question arising in this context is whether the the hadd of killing is abolished, if the fornicator accepts Islam after ...
Ahmad Hajidehabadi, Hosein Abasi Mehre
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Doctrine, Narrative and the Formation of Christian Identity: A Conversation with Alister McGrath
International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.Abstract This article offers a critical and appreciative response to Alister McGrath’s The Nature of Christian Doctrine, exploring the formation of doctrine as a dynamic communal process rooted in Scripture, liturgy and historical context. It highlights McGrath’s analogy between doctrinal development and scientific method, emphasising the search for a ...
Frances Margaret Young
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Il pentimento in Tolstoj e Dostoevskij. Dal cerchio magico dell’Io al bisogno di perdono
Linguae &: Rivista di Lingue e Culture Moderne, 2014 Given the religious metaphysics of Russian Realism (Steiner 1995: 49), repentance is one of the pivotal moments necessary for the characters of Tolstoy’s and Dostoevsky’s works: it is through repentance that such characters radically change their lives ...
Giuseppe Ghini
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Consigning Injustice to History with Political Apologies
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Failures to remember the past properly can constitute a range of different wrongs. In this article, we identify a novel kind of wrong that often occurs through political apologies: consigning an injustice to history. Consigning acknowledges that a historical injustice took place but denies that it has any ongoing relevance for the present ...
Alfred Archer, Benjamin Matheson
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The Remnant of Revelation 11:13 – A Quantitative Aspect
TheoRhēma, 2017 The article provides an answer to a question generated by the apocalyptic earthquake vision of Rev 11:13. The question raised is whether the remnant (those not killed in the earthquake) in this text is a positive or a negative group.
Laurențiu Moț
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“So That They Might Turn”: The Possibility of Repentance in Jesus’ Parables
ReligionsSince the publication of Julicher’s Die Gleichnisreden Jesu, parable research has largely focused on the legitimacy of allegory, classification of form, and matters of meaning and polyvalence.
Leslie T. Hardin
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Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article presents the findings of a quantitative study on sentencing practices in Brazil, focusing on the presence of numerical patterns and “penal clustering” in judicial decisions. Drawing on a dataset of criminal sentences from São Paulo—the country's most populous and active judiciary—the research statistically investigates whether ...
Gabriel Silveira de Queirós Campos +2 more
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Efficiency in the Global Prison System: A Systematic Literature Review and Bibliometric Analysis
Journal of Economic Surveys, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study systematizes the international literature on prison system efficiency, highlighting patterns and research gaps through a multidimensional framework. By situating efficiency within broader institutional, social, and rights‐based contexts, it examines how academic research has assessed carceral performance.
Leandro Moreira +2 more
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Of Carcasses and Christ: Rereading the Repugnant Ecological Other
Journal of Religious Ethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay claims that a collection of hunting and fishing devotionals provincializes a common trope in environmental literatures: the figure of the repugnantly anti‐ecological conservative Protestant. A close reading of these texts reveals their authors’ and ideal audiences’ extensive knowledge of land and animal minds, which deflates their ...
Colin B. Weaver
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