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The corporate legal profession’s role in global corruption: obligations and opportunities for contributing to collective action
Key corruption issues, like lack of transparency in beneficial ownership and money laundering, are inherently transnational. They are facilitated by...
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The Norwegian Victim Lawyer in a Nordic Context: Professional Boundaries, Legal Hierarchies and Purification Processes
The victim lawyer has become a common feature in Nordic jurisdictions. Designed to enable victims to participate effectively in the criminal justice...
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Challenges to addressing trafficking into forced labor in Chile: a legal culture perspective
The meanings of “human trafficking” vary according to political, legal, and sociocultural contexts. This article contributes to understanding the...
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Occupation, Organisation, Opportunity, and Oversight: Law Firm Client Accounts and (Anti-)Money Laundering
The misuse of law firm pooled client accounts has been identified as one of the primary areas of money laundering and terrorist financing risk for...
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Between the legal technique and the social question: the plural commitments of public defenders in Argentina
The criminal process in the Province of Buenos Aires has been affected by radical reforms in the last decades. Beginning with the complete...
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Meeting in the White Space: The Discourse of First Nations Client and Legal Practitioner Relations
Australian Indigenous people are overrepresented as clients of solicitors, yet there is little research into the professional relations between...
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French Prison Officers’ Legal Socialisation: ‘The Law, Yes, Prisoners’ Rights, No’
Since the 1990s, French prison staff, and notably prison officers, have been confronted with the slow but significant evolution of prisoners’ rights,...
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The Oldest Profession: Sex as Work
One of the most radical shifts in thinking about sex work has been its re-conceptualisation from prostitution to sex work as work. In this chapter,...
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Establishing a Profession through Boundary Drawing: Defining Criminology’s Autonomy Vis-À-Vis Six Competing Disciplines
Criminology as an independent profession established itself just over a half century ago. An analysis of oral histories collected with seventeen...
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Studying Legal Courts Trans-sequentially
The chapter gives an introduction to a praxeological methodology for court ethnographies. The trans-sequential analysis is an object-centred approach...
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Disorder in the Court: Trans Folx Experiences of Criminal Legal Practitioner Failings
Documented accounts of trans folx in the courtroom and with legal practitioners within the context of academic work are limited, as much of the focus...
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Child protection versus teacher protection: a legal review of the settlement of school corporal punishment in Indonesia
The education sphere nowadays faces the issue of corporal punishment, which is considered a detrimental school discipline that has negative impacts...
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Defenders at Law: Assessing the performance of legal defense on Drug Trafficking cases in Brazil
Few studies have assessed defense performance in criminal cases in the Latin American context. The current research investigated whether defense type...
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Understanding Deaf Culture, the Deaf Community, and American Sign Language in a Criminal Justice and Legal Context
Because culture and language often play such a crucial role in both the individual’s understanding of the world around them and their interactions...
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Gender Differences in Occupational Attitudes Among Chinese Judges
The past two decades have witnessed the emergence of empirical studies exploring the relationships between legal and extra-legal factors and judicial...
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“This is where I belong:” a narrative study of professional commitment to a new criminal justice agency
Scholars of penal change have established a rich theoretical understanding of the macro- and meso- level processes that explain the emergence,...
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Restorative Justice in Hong Kong — a Research Study on the Struggle Between Retribution and Restoration
Hong Kong has been a place where the rule of law is upheld as the cornerstone of the legal system, and the notion of rule of law is based very much...
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Researching the Roma in Criminology and Legal Studies: Experiences from Urban and Rural Participant Observation, Interviews, and Surveys
The Roma are the largest European minority and among the groups that have suffered the most dreadful persecution and trauma in the past that persists...
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Moral Injury as a Challenge in a Value-Driven Profession: Insights from Ethics for the Education and Training of Police Agents
Police and law enforcement agents in their professional work can, at times, face and experience situations which put them at risk of suffering from...
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Making sense of professional enablers’ involvement in laundering organized crime proceeds and of their regulation
Money laundering has ascended the enforcement and criminological agenda in the course of this century, and has been accompanied by an increased focus...
