Most women leaving prison face profound disadvantages and rarely have access to the resources needed to settle back into the community. Seemingly simple tasks such as obtaining replacement identification documents or opening ...
Social Sciences
Apr 3, 2024
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A new study suggests the UK prison system should learn lessons from Icelandic prisons to transform the lives of foreign national prisoners. The work was published in the International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice.
Social Sciences
Jan 16, 2024
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The UK government is taking a harsher approach to tackle criminal activity which is blighting local neighborhoods. And recently, government ministers have been talking tough about repeat shoplifting, including the possibility ...
Social Sciences
Aug 14, 2023
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Being tightly monitored by an employer when working from home, house arrest or a restraining order: according to researcher Hadassa Noorda, these are all forms of imprisonment. "You can also be imprisoned without being behind ...
Social Sciences
May 23, 2023
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Just four years ago, the Spanish Supreme Court pointed out in a ruling that there is no such thing as a "conjugal debt." In other words, a woman is not obliged to satisfy her husband's sexual needs. It may come as a surprise ...
Social Sciences
May 9, 2023
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Algorithms were supposed to remake the American justice system. Championed as dispassionate, computer-driven calculations about risk, crime, and recidivism, their deployment in everything from policing to bail and sentencing ...
Other
Feb 24, 2023
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The two men who shot dead 18 people in separate incidents just days apart in California are the latest perpetrators in America's long history of mass gun violence. But something about these public shootings, and the men held ...
Social Sciences
Jan 25, 2023
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Cypriot authorities have for the first time issued fines for the killing of rare wild birds using poison baits, conservationists on the Mediterranean island said Monday.
Ecology
Jan 23, 2023
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Prosecutors exert considerable power in the criminal justice system, and while defendants are predominantly Black and Latinx, prosecutors are overwhelmingly White. Despite calls for addressing racial disparities in this field, ...
Social Sciences
Oct 4, 2022
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People who violate their supervised release—a period of community supervision after release from prison—by committing new crimes are punished not only for their crimes, but also for violating their supervision. In a new ...
Social Sciences
May 3, 2022
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