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Protest policing and policing protesters: litigation in the U.S. circuit courts of appeals Crime, Law and Social Change (IF 1.612) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Allison G. Kondrat, Michael S. Vaughn
After the surge in political protests during the summer of 2020, protest rights have been thrust into the forefront of the nation’s consciousness. Specifically, questions have arisen with respect to the boundaries of the First Amendment rights of protesters, in addition to the duty of police officers to maintain public safety and order. In this article, the interpretation and application of relevant
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Trust in the law but beware! The possible corruptogenic effects of the law on public procurement in Malawi Crime, Law and Social Change (IF 1.612) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Mwiza Jo Nkhata, Martin Visuzgo Chipofya
The persistence of corruption in Malawi is well documented as are its heinous effects. Malawi’s response to combating corruption has involved the adoption of legislation and the establishment of a dedicated agency for dealing with the vice. These efforts notwithstanding, the fight against corruption continues to be a lopsided undertaking with the country registering negligible commendable progress
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Bid-rigging in public procurement: cartel strategies and bidding patterns Crime, Law and Social Change (IF 1.612) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Carlotta Carbone, Francesco Calderoni, Maria Jofre
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The Philippines: a social structure of corruption Crime, Law and Social Change (IF 1.612) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Andrew Guth
The anticorruption community largely views corruption as a government or development issue. But in the Philippines, corruption is a social structure. The very social bonds and social structures that are good at building civic unity and solidarity are also good at spreading and maintaining corruption, and this is why corruption is so difficult to remove. Patrons use these societal features to implement
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A qualitative inquiry: management of recidivism in South Africa Crime, Law and Social Change (IF 1.612) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Jerome A. Samuels, Nicolette V. Roman, Marelize Schoeman
At a high cost to the community and taxpayers, offenders frequently return to correctional facilities shortly after being released. In South Africa, the management of recidivism has not been researched extensively, and recidivism as a phenomenon has received scant attention. This study explores how the Department of Correctional Services in South Africa manages recidivism using the perspectives of
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Vulnerability of individuals to economic crime and the role of financial literacy in its prevention: Evidence from India Crime, Law and Social Change (IF 1.612) Pub Date : 2024-01-23
Abstract Economic crime has been an area of concern for regulators and governments across countries, and billions of hard-earned money is siphoned off by fraudsters yearly. Financial service consumers' lives are made easier with the new technological developments in fintech. However, with the growing participation of individuals in formalised channels of banking and finance, through greater emphasis
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Terrorist financing via the banking sector Crime, Law and Social Change (IF 1.612) Pub Date : 2024-01-09
Abstract Islamist terrorism poses a significant threat to global security. Current prevention measures focus largely on combating terrorist financing in order to hinder terrorist organizations’ ability to pay their fighters and orchestrate attacks, with the aim of weakening their structures. The banking sector in particular is subject to strict regulations that intend to increase transparency and identify
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A positive feedback mechanism? Institutional responsiveness to bribery reporting by citizens in 12 African countries Crime, Law and Social Change (IF 1.612) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Letícia Barbabela
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Corporate antitrust prosecutions: Prosecutorial decision making in the assessment of total monetary penalties Crime, Law and Social Change (IF 1.612) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Claire Nolasco Braaten, Lily Chi-Fang Tsai
Our study analyzes data from the Corporate Prosecution Registry of the University of Virginia School of Law and Duke University School of Law (Garrett and Ashley, 2023). We examine a subset of corporate violators, namely prosecutions brought under the Sherman Antitrust Act’s criminal provisions. The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 is a federal statute that prohibits activities that restrict interstate
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Conflict mitigation or governance choreographies? Scaling up and down state-criminal negotiations in Medellin and lessons for Mexico Crime, Law and Social Change (IF 1.612) Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Angélica Durán-Martínez
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Crude Realities: Oil, Corruption, and Anti-corruption campaigns Crime, Law and Social Change (IF 1.612) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Turkhan Sadigov
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The implications of illicit networks for changes in anti-narcotics policies Crime, Law and Social Change (IF 1.612) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Enrique Desmond Arias, Philip Luke Johnson
Mexico, like many other countries in Latin America and the Caribbean suffering persistent violence, has sought to shift its anti-narcotics and organized crime control policies to develop more effective responses to the crime challenges that the country faces. Building on research in Brazil, Colombia, Jamaica, and Mexico, this essay develops an analysis of crime as embedded within political, social
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The “New Wars”: security and cooperation in Mexico and Northern Central America Crime, Law and Social Change (IF 1.612) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Gema Kloppe-Santamaría, José Miguel Cruz
This article analyzes the current security crisis in Mexico and northern Central America from a comparative and subregional perspective. It does so by focusing on the “new wars” waged by the governments of these countries since the early 2000s against transnational criminal organizations and youth gangs. While acknowledging the weight and impact of these criminal actors in these countries’ levels of
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“Incitement of insurrection”: Criminogenic antecedents and potential policy responses Crime, Law and Social Change (IF 1.612) Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Clayton D. Peoples, James E. Sutton
On January 6th, 2021, a mob of more than 2,000 Trump supporters stormed the Capital—at his urging—in an effort to halt counting of electoral college votes from the 2020 Presidential Election. Vandalism, injury, and loss of life ensued. Although the actions of Trump and the insurrectionists were alarming, the structural factors that gave rise to this offense are arguably even more troubling. In this
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The influence and role of cryptoculture on target congruence in cryptocurrency investment behavior: a theoretical model Crime, Law and Social Change (IF 1.612) Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Brandon Christopher Dulisse, Nathan Connealy, Matthew William Logan
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Crime, pandemic and social mobility: Empirical evidence from Türkiye Crime, Law and Social Change (IF 1.612) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Aykut Çalışkan
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Astronomical withdrawals: a green criminological examination of extreme energy mining on extraterrestrial objects Crime, Law and Social Change (IF 1.612) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Jack Adam Lampkin, Bill W. McClanahan
Mining for natural resources on-Earth is commonplace and dates back over a hundred years at an industrial scale. Technological advances in outer space exploration are enabling the mining of extraterrestrial resources to transition from mere science fiction, to a serious possibility. In recent decades, several new start-up companies have arisen with the sole intention of exploiting resources that exist
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Shadow state structures and the threat to anti-corruption enforcement: evidence from Uzbekistan’s telecommunications bribery scandal Crime, Law and Social Change (IF 1.612) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Kristian Lasslett, Nadja Capus
The role which corporate and financial secrecy vehicles play in enabling transnational corruption has justifiably received growing scholarly and policy interest. Less attention, however, has been given to the enabling role played by political secrecy vehicles. Political secrecy vehicles denote arrangements that allow individuals to clandestinely exercise public authority, which is concealed by a formal
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Private and public co-operation in preventing and addressing corporate crime: the case of labour trafficking in the Finnish construction industry Crime, Law and Social Change (IF 1.612) Pub Date : 2023-09-27 Jon Davies, Hanna Maria Malik, Anniina Jokinen, Saara Haapasaari
Numerous corporate and state processes have long underpinned harms related to human trafficking and exploitation. A consequence of these processes has been a growing interest in how public and private sector organisations co-operate to address key challenges, including accountability for alleged exploitation. The purpose of this article is to examine these public-private sector dynamics in the Finnish
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‘It could have been us’. Peer responses to money-laundering violations in the Dutch banking industry Crime, Law and Social Change (IF 1.612) Pub Date : 2023-09-23 Anna Merz
Much literature has focused on societal responses to corporate scandals, either by authorities or the public. However, there is little research on responses to corporate deviance by peers (corporations in the same industry). As corporations face a Zeitgeist characterised by increased attention to, and disapproval of, corporate deviance, they are compelled to respond to the external ‘labelling’ of their
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Law enforcement, social demands and reputation risks as drivers of compliance functions: a comparative analysis of the largest banks’ disclosures in the UK and Brazil Crime, Law and Social Change (IF 1.612) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Myrna Calmon Santos de Souza, Rodrigo Silva de Souza
Given the recent recurring cases of financial crime worldwide, national and international regulators have enacted new regulatory instruments intended to prevent or inhibit unlawful acts by banks and their representatives. These stricter regulations regarding the operations of financial institutions have reinforced the importance of best practices and the role of compliance within banks. Nonetheless
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Accident, scandal, disaster: the media framing of corporate crime Crime, Law and Social Change (IF 1.612) Pub Date : 2023-09-21 Jana Macfarlane Horn
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An integrated model of human trafficking response in the prosecution process: restorative justice, therapeutic jurisprudence, survivor centered practice and anti-oppressive practice Crime, Law and Social Change (IF 1.612) Pub Date : 2023-09-21 Andrea J. Nichols, Erin J. Heil
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The corporate legal profession’s role in global corruption: obligations and opportunities for contributing to collective action Crime, Law and Social Change (IF 1.612) Pub Date : 2023-09-18 Jasmine Elliott
Key corruption issues, like lack of transparency in beneficial ownership and money laundering, are inherently transnational. They are facilitated by professional services, like corporate lawyers, who work with various standards, regulations, and global financial flows that can move the proceeds of crime across the world. This paper uses reflective equilibrium to analyze the tensions between the philosophical
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National legislative adoption of international wildlife law after treaty ratification Crime, Law and Social Change (IF 1.612) Pub Date : 2023-09-12 David Rodríguez Goyes
Since the 1970s, the world has witnessed a proliferation of international treaties championing the protection of wildlife. The effectiveness of those treaties, which together comprise international wildlife law (IWL), depends on their national implementation by individual states rather than on their number. National implementation of IWL ranges from legislative action, to resource allocation, to individual
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Criminal justice involvement, structural vulnerability and social safety net services among people living with HIV in Baltimore Crime, Law and Social Change (IF 1.612) Pub Date : 2023-09-08 Natalie Flath, Jordan J. White, Karin Tobin, Carl Latkin
Mass incarceration has shaped the environment of HIV transmission, yet there is limited research on the conditions that enhance or mitigate access to health and social resources for people living with HIV (PLWH) with criminal justice (CJ) involvement. This paper aims to explore structural vulnerability, social safety net services, and criminal justice involvement among PLWH. Among a community-based
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COVID-19 as a trigger for racially motivated and extremist violent crime: a temporal analysis of hate crimes in Slovakia amidst a global pandemic Crime, Law and Social Change (IF 1.612) Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Sylwia J. Piatkowska, Whitney Whittington
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Legal aspects of corporate systems for preventing cybercrime among personnel Crime, Law and Social Change (IF 1.612) Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Bo Dong, Sergei Chernov, Kevser Ovaz Akpinar
The activities of enterprise employees can become a risk factor in terms of cybercrime, which is often associated with their lack of preparedness to counter potential cyber threats. Many businesses need a well-adjusted system of approaches to protect their internal data from all sorts of cyber threats. The objectives of the study are to analyze the practices of using systems to combat cybercrime phenomena
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How organizational culture shapes criminal organizations’ street-level territorial control capabilities: a study of Los Zetas Crime, Law and Social Change (IF 1.612) Pub Date : 2023-07-21 Valentin Pereda
Criminologists concur that only a minority of organized crime groups (OCGs) seek to establish physical, uninterrupted control over geographic spaces. Despite the rarity of OCGs that effectively regulate who may enter or leave ‘their’ territory, and under which conditions, they constitute one of the most blatant challenges organized crime poses to the state and its institutions. Using the Mexican OCG
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Market and network corruption: Theory and evidence Crime, Law and Social Change (IF 1.612) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Maria Kravtsova, Aleksey Oshchepkov
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Rich scholar, poor scholar: inequalities in research capacity, “knowledge” abysses, and the value of unconventional approaches to research Crime, Law and Social Change (IF 1.612) Pub Date : 2023-07-05 David Rodriguez Goyes, May-Len Skilbrei
The dominance of modern rationality in knowledge production implies that the distribution of intellectual capital highly depends on the capacity to gather representative data and generate generalizable theses. Furthermore, as research becomes more formalized and dominated by large funding schemes, intellectual capital allocation is increasingly associated with high economic, labor force and institutional
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Online and offline determinants of drug trafficking across countries via cryptomarkets Crime, Law and Social Change (IF 1.612) Pub Date : 2023-07-02 Luca Giommoni, David Décary-Hétu, Giulia Berlusconi, Andréanne Bergeron
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The persistence of organized crime in post-caliphate Iraq: a case of crime-terror convergence? Crime, Law and Social Change (IF 1.612) Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Sara Kulić, Maarten P. Bolhuis
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A fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis of how corruption, education, inequality and trust in parliament affect voter-turnout Crime, Law and Social Change (IF 1.612) Pub Date : 2023-06-17 José N. Cruz
This article empirically examines whether corruption, education, inequality, and trust in parliament affect voter turnout in countries that are members of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. Specifically, fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis is used to determine whether these factors (individually or in combination) are necessary or sufficient conditions for high or low
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Religion and punishment in the post-revolutionary Iran from the durkheimian perspective Crime, Law and Social Change (IF 1.612) Pub Date : 2023-06-09 Abdolreza Javan Jafari Bojnordi, Seyyed Mohammad Javad Sadati, Zahra Farhadi Alashti
Sociology of penal practice has not systematically investigated religion as a powerful cultural element in shaping the criminal justice system in the modern world. Therefore, this study sought to analyze the potential influence of religion on developing penal policies in Iran. The Islamic Revolution of Iran which occurred in 1978-79 led to a great penal revolution based on the Sharia criminal law.
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The social perception of environmental victimization. A visual and sensory methodological proposal Crime, Law and Social Change (IF 1.612) Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Lorenzo Natali
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Armed conflict and academic performance. A spatial approach for Colombia Crime, Law and Social Change (IF 1.612) Pub Date : 2023-05-23 John Ariza, Juan Pablo Saldarriaga
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Long-term mental health, victimization, and behavioral consequences associated with human sex trafficking Crime, Law and Social Change (IF 1.612) Pub Date : 2023-05-20 Marlen Turgumbayev, Dzhansarayeva Rima, Saltanat Duzbayeva, Elvira Alimova, Kevin M. Beaver
Human sex trafficking represents a pressing social problem that has garnered a significant amount of attention. A great deal of research has focused on key issues related to human sex trafficking, including factors associated with being trafficked and where human sex trafficking is most likely to occur. A body of research has also examined some of the potential consequences associated with being a
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Words matter: judges’ value judgments in sentence pronouncements remarks Crime, Law and Social Change (IF 1.612) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Andreia de Castro Rodrigues, Olga S. Cunha, Jorge Q. de Oliveira, Rui A. Gonçalves, Ana Sacau-Fontenla
This study examines judges’ value judgments on their remarks during sentence pronouncements. We performed a content analysis of 93 sentence pronouncements from the 13 judges from a Portuguese criminal court. Within these discourses, 299 discourse units were codified as judges’ value judgments, that is, personal contents beyond strict legal issues. From these 299, 107 were recommendations (comprehending
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Following the (DNM) Bible? A crime script analysis of darknet drug vending Crime, Law and Social Change (IF 1.612) Pub Date : 2023-04-21 Thomas Joyce
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Stolen goods markets and criminal redistribution in Enugu state of Nigeria Crime, Law and Social Change (IF 1.612) Pub Date : 2023-04-21 Christopher U. Ugwuoke, Obinna J. Eze
This study offers an insightful criminological literature on stolen goods market. The existence of markets for stolen goods is not of a recent development. In recent times however, such markets have become important aspects of the network of organized crimes that have impacted negatively on both domestic and global economic development. Qualitative approach was employed to obtain information from a
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Producing criminality: The expanding power of crime analysts Crime, Law and Social Change (IF 1.612) Pub Date : 2023-04-14 Dale Ballucci
Crime analysts play a central role in producing and justifying reasonable suspicions of future criminality. Despite the governing power of these agents, little is known about how they use data to determine risk. My investigation examines the local decision-making practices of crime analysts in producing the Prolific Offender List. Using interview data from analysts in a Canadian jurisdiction, I detail
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Beyond the drug war: violence, forced displacement, and shale gas in northeastern Mexico (2000–2020) Crime, Law and Social Change (IF 1.612) Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Raúl Iglesias Nieto, Pierre Gaussens, Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera
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Bots against corruption: Exploring the benefits and limitations of AI-based anti-corruption technology Crime, Law and Social Change (IF 1.612) Pub Date : 2023-03-25 Fernanda Odilla
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The impact of corruption and clientelism on voter turnout in Africa Crime, Law and Social Change (IF 1.612) Pub Date : 2023-03-17 Elvis Bisong Tambe, Moletsane Monyake
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Policing the Crisis in the 21st Century; the making of “knife crime youths” in Britain Crime, Law and Social Change (IF 1.612) Pub Date : 2023-03-14 Elaine Williams
The terms ‘knife crime’ and ‘knife culture’ were first established in British crime discourse at the turn of 21st century and represent a particular re-making of youth in post-industrial Britain. The generational impacts of advanced neoliberalism have intensified conflict between marginalised young people in the UK as they compete for success in high-risk informal economies and navigate the normalised
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Criminal street gangs and domestic sex trafficking in the United States: evidence from Northern Virginia Crime, Law and Social Change (IF 1.612) Pub Date : 2023-02-24 Yulia Krylova, Louise Shelley
The last decade witnessed increasing involvement of criminal street gangs in domestic sex trafficking in the United States. This paper analyzes business models and practices of gang-controlled sex trafficking in Northern Virginia, based on the cases available from PACER, an electronic public access service of the United States federal court. This analysis shows that business models of gang-controlled
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Silencing Paritutu Crime, Law and Social Change (IF 1.612) Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Sarah Monod de Froideville, Andrew Gibbs
This paper exposes the New Zealand (NZ) government’s longstanding campaign to silence evidence of health impacts from dioxin-containing emissions during the production of the herbicide 2,4,5-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4,5-T) in New Plymouth in the 1960s. Our analysis of official documentation and related literature between 1960–2005 reveals a series of investigations engaging various silencing
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Do oil price fluctuations influence criminal activity in energy rich regions? Evidence from California’s Central Valley Crime, Law and Social Change (IF 1.612) Pub Date : 2023-02-15 Nyakundi M. Michieka, Richard S. Gearhart
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Idleness as work? How public defenders do their job by waiting Crime, Law and Social Change (IF 1.612) Pub Date : 2023-02-13 Milena Ang
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Access to justice in prisons or the limitations of prison defense Crime, Law and Social Change (IF 1.612) Pub Date : 2023-02-13 Pablo Carvacho
This article sought to understand the adequacy of criminal defense services within prisons. By analyzing secondary data and interviews, it describes the justiciable problems and legal needs, the lines of action, and the obstacles that the adult prison population encounters. The results show that the experience and needs that arise in prison surpass the institutional capabilities of the chilean Public
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“This is where I belong:” a narrative study of professional commitment to a new criminal justice agency Crime, Law and Social Change (IF 1.612) Pub Date : 2023-02-11 Isabel Arriagada
Scholars of penal change have established a rich theoretical understanding of the macro- and meso- level processes that explain the emergence, diffusion, and success of penal developments. Similarly enthusiastic examinations of the agentic aspects of professional commitment to criminal justice institutions are necessary to better understand the relationship between micro-level individual processes
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“We’re led by stupid people”: Exploring Trump’s use of denigrating and deprecating speech to promote hatred and violence Crime, Law and Social Change (IF 1.612) Pub Date : 2023-02-09 Jace Valcore, Nicole L. Asquith, Jess Rodgers
In response to a call for criminologists to consider the impact of former President Donald Trump’s presumed criminality, we analyze verbal-textual hostility (VTH) in Trump’s campaign speeches. Politicians have particular power and reach with their speech and their use of VTH is an important part of the trifecta of violence. Using a framework informed by linguistic theory and previous analysis of hate
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The rural enterprise crime complex: ‘undefendable rural space’ and the threat from the fortress farm Crime, Law and Social Change (IF 1.612) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Orlando Goodall
In respsonse to the concept of the ‘fortress farm’ and its appropriation of traditional defensible space theory, this article introduces the conditions of undefendable rural space and the rural enterprise crime complex. Perspectives that invert traditional theory to determine contexts conducive to the incidence of rural enterprise crime. Empirical data from extensive fieldwork on crimes against wild
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Criminal defense work in a sample of arrest hearings in three states of Mexico: the micro-dynamics of case-level engagement, influence, and strategy Crime, Law and Social Change (IF 1.612) Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Andres F. Rengifo, Lorena Avila, David Ibañez
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International connections within the national government: Brazilian public legal careers and international circulation (2008–2018) Crime, Law and Social Change (IF 1.612) Pub Date : 2023-02-04 Fabiano Engelmann, Eduardo de Moura Menuzzi, Lucas Batista Pilau
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Decreasing corruption in the field of disaster management Crime, Law and Social Change (IF 1.612) Pub Date : 2023-01-24 Kyoo-Man Ha
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Female violence in terror attacks: a phenomenological analysis based on evidence from the “Intifada of the Individuals” Crime, Law and Social Change (IF 1.612) Pub Date : 2023-01-21 Uzi Ben-Shalom, Roni Mash, Amit Z. Dvir, Eyal Lewin
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Hate in the time of the Covid-19 pandemic: dehumanisation as a side effect; re-humanisation as a remedy Crime, Law and Social Change (IF 1.612) Pub Date : 2023-01-13 Melanie Collard
This article is about denouncing the dehumanisation process that took place in the time of Covid-19. It recognises that governments have a vital role to play in setting national directions to tackle racist violence and that the value of having hate crime laws should not be underestimated. However, it argues that a broader approach is needed to embark upon a re-humanisation initiative and effectively
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Twenty-first century political justice: Reflections on the blind spots of current debates on penality Crime, Law and Social Change (IF 1.612) Pub Date : 2023-01-11 José A. Brandariz
This paper aims to examine the contours of current manifestations of political justice, in a time in which liberal democracy arrangements are more widespread than ever before. For these purposes, it begins by exploring international indices unveiling varying degrees of illiberal penal practices in global north jurisdictions. Subsequently, it scrutinises the Spanish penal field, in which outmoded political