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Producing Fraud at the Welfare‐Migration Nexus: Migrant Families and Children's Social Care

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article interrogates the production of ‘fraud’ at the interface between welfare and migration regimes. Taking the welfare micropublic of children's social care in the UK as a case study, we focus on encounters between migrant families subject to the ‘no recourse to public funds’ immigration condition and London local authorities.
Eve Dickson, Rachel Rosen
wiley   +1 more source

Can Enhanced Street Lighting Improve Public Safety at Scale? [PDF]

Criminol Public Policy
MacDonald JM, Chalfin A, Mortiz M, Wade B, Mendlein AK, Braga AA, South E.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

Life situation and mortality among former forensic psychiatric patients. [PDF]

Front Psychiatry
Noland E.
europepmc   +1 more source

Opportunities and Alliances: The Relational Dynamics of Criminal Collusion in Latin America

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Mexico and judicial wiretap analysis in Argentina, this paper shows that collusion between state actors and violent non‐state actors operates through fluid and competitive relational networks rather than stable hierarchies or fixed institutional arrangements.
Eldad J. Levy, Javier Auyero
wiley   +1 more source

Individual-Level Interventions for Alcohol-Related Harm in Night-Time Entertainment Precincts: A Scoping Review. [PDF]

Drug Alcohol Rev
Papageorgiou J, Thompson C, McCarthy M, de Andrade D.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Comparative Framing From Below: How Young People in Three Cities Interpret Cyber Dating Abuse by Drawing Boundaries Between Love, Harm, and Justice

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As digital technologies become embedded in everyday life, interpersonal violence increasingly takes place in cyberspace. Existing studies have focused on how states, experts, and the media define what counts as cyber violence and abuse. Less attention has been paid to how ordinary people interpret and contest these definitions and how their ...
Susanne Y. P. Choi, Tangi P. C. Yip, Hsiu‐Hua Shen, Xiying Wang, Lynne Y. Nakano   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Criminal governance and extortion in informal economies: fear as a mechanism of territorial control in Lima. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Espinoza Escobar JH, Sotelo-Llancari S, La Rosa Salvador VI.   +2 more
europepmc   +1 more source

To the Issue of Situational Crime Prevention

Proceedings of the XVII International Research-to-Practice Conference dedicated to the memory of M.I. Kovalyov (ICK 2020), 2020
openaire   +1 more source