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Review of European, Comparative &International Environmental Law, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 465-472, November 2023., 2023 Abstract Could a trade agreement strengthen the enforcement of domestic environmental laws? This article explores this question in the context of the US–Peru Trade Promotion Agreement (TPA). The article examines, in particular, the potential role of the Secretariat for Submissions on Environmental Enforcement Matters (SEEM) of the TPA.
Pablo Peña
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Emergency powers, anti‐corruption, and policy failures during the COVID‐19 pandemic in Puerto Rico
Law &Policy, Volume 45, Issue 3, Page 253-272, July 2023., 2023 Abstract This paper explores how the use of emergency powers by the US and Puerto Rican governments exacerbated the impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic and manufactured the conditions for furthering the multilayered economic, legal, political, and humanitarian crisis affecting Puerto Rico since 2006. The paper discusses three cases.
Jose Atiles
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The afterlives of political violence in Argentina: The gendered body and everyday cruelty
The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 28, Issue 1, Page 42-52, March 2023., 2023 Abstract While the last decade in Argentina saw an expansion of civil rights and an increased awareness of gendered violence, prison conditions for women deteriorated. A prominent example took place in Buenos Aires in May 2014 when thirty women in ‘Unidad 31’ were violently transferred to make space for men convicted of crimes against humanity during ...
Leyla Savloff
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EVASION: Prison Escapes and the Predicament of Incarceration in Rio de Janeiro
Cultural Anthropology, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 36-59, February 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT This article examines Brazil's project of incarceration through the figure of evasion (evasão)—the act of escaping prison custody, often temporarily. Evasion traces a path across the borders of captivity and freedom, as people routinely flee confinement, only to return of their own accord.
DAVID C. THOMPSON
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Organized crime groups: A systematic review of individual‐level risk factors related to recruitment
Campbell Systematic Reviews, Volume 18, Issue 1, March 2022., 2022 Abstract Background Studies from multiple contexts conceptualize organized crime as comprising different types of criminal organizations and activities. Notwithstanding growing scientific interest and increasing number of policies aiming at preventing and punishing organized crime, little is known about the specific processes that lead to recruitment ...
Francesco Calderoni +5 more
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Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 1, January 2026.ABSTRACT This paper addresses stories of surveillance of Brazilian critical/radical geographers, drawing on innovative sources. That is, the folders and reports through which the political police and related institutions watched critical and radical scholars during the 20th century in all Brazilian states and abroad, under both ‘dictatorial’ and ...
Federico Ferretti, Guilherme Ribeiro
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Racial Capitalism and the Workhouse–Plantation Nexus in the Atlantic World
Antipode, Volume 57, Issue 5, Page 2015-2044, September 2025.Abstract This paper re‐examines the British workhouse within the framework of racial capitalism and the Atlantic world. Traditionally understood as a domestic mechanism for managing poverty and labour in an era of industrial capitalism, we argue the workhouse was deeply intertwined with global systems of racial exploitation and accumulation from the ...
Andrew Williams, Jon May
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Gender &History, Volume 37, Issue 2, Page 477-486, July 2025.ABSTRACT This article discusses the intense struggles over family laws and policies in the early‐twentieth century, culminating with the establishment of the Estado Novo dictatorship of 1937–1945. It then analyses letters from ordinary citizens who ask President Getúlio for help in the aftermath of separation from a spouse or consensual partner.
Sueann Caulfield
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Journal of Agrarian Change, Volume 25, Issue 3, July 2025.ABSTRACT Illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing has been internationally branded as a major threat to oceans. Frequently depicted as having profound societal impacts and operational synergies with other forms of criminal activities, which justify the need for a so‐called global fight against IUU fishing to protect the marine commons and ...
Paula Satizábal +3 more
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On the collateral consequences of fine default: The Brazilian case study
The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, Volume 64, Issue 2, Page 129-144, June 2025.Abstract The collateral consequences of the non‐payment of fines have merited much attention in jurisdictions such as the USA or Australia, yet they are relatively unexplored in countries of the Global South. In this article, we analyse Brazil as a case study.
Gabriel Brollo Fortes +1 more
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