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Criminal justice officials’ attitudes towards addressing computer crimes in Thailand: Difficulties and recommendations
For the past 10 years, Thailand has been one of the top 10 countries targeted by cyber criminals. In order to address this pressing issue of computer...
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Independent Monitoring and Victimisation in Prisons
Like all human beings also prisoners have the right to be protected from violence. The European Court of Human Rights considers it a state’s...
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The Need to Think Beyond Objective Territoriality to Better Protect the Rights of the Suspect of a Cybercrime
Despite the decentralized, borderless, and pervasive nature of cyberspace, the exercise of jurisdiction over cybercrimes remains largely based on the...
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Confession and the Crime Control Model: an Analysis of Exonerated Death Penalty Cases in China
Confessions clearly have probative value when they are truthful. When not, however, they may lead to disastrous consequences. While the due process...
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Towards Child-Friendly Asylum Justice
When unaccompanied minors or families with minor children obtain a negative decision on their asylum application in Belgium, they can appeal at the...
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External Accountability: The Limited Influence of Oversight Bodies on the Governance of Police Stops
The chapter examines independent external oversight bodies’ and parliaments’ roleParliament(s) in the governance of police stops. Drawing on...
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Prison Officers International Perspectives on Prison Work
This edited collection brings together academics, lawyers, civil servants, and researchers working in the human rights NGO sector, to explore the...
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Understanding Prisoner Victimisation
People in prison are usually (and often exclusively) seen and approached as persons who have committed one or more crimes and who have to pay their...
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Protest and Activism of Women’s Movements—Social Movements in Contemporary Iran
Despite the harsh repression and censorship of social media by authorities, the public has succeeded in harnessing the power of the internet to...
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Making a dent in human trafficking: investigating the effects of social institutions and policies across 60 countries
Given the worldwide magnitude, pervasiveness and deleterious consequences of human trafficking (Roth,
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British Caribbean Slavery and the Holocaust in Germany and Occupied Europe—A Comparison
This chapter investigates the mechanics of differential racial incorporation and shows the similarities in both regimes. Differential incorporation...
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Vulnerability and Victimhood in Prison: Reflecting on the Concept of Vulnerability in Prisoner Victimisation Research
In penological literature and in human rights (soft) law, specific groups of people are often categorised as vulnerable based on characteristics,...
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Introduction—The Tale of Children and the Anti-trafficking Machine
Child traffickingChild trafficking conjures images of poor, innocent children, trapped, brutalised by evil traffickers, and forced to exist as the...
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Life Imprisonment in South Korea: Life Imprisonment Law and Practice in the Shadow of the Death Penalty
At the centre of the debate about abolishing the death penalty in South Korea is the issue of life imprisonment as an alternative punishment....
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Human Smuggling in the Mediterranean: A Comparative Analysis of the Central and Eastern Mediterranean Smuggling Routes
By building on a mixed-methods approach that combines the use of secondary sources with ethnographic research, this paper compares two separate...
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Systemic Gender Violence in Mexico: Normalization, Silencing, and the Colonization of Bodies-Territories
The systematic repetition of gender violence in Mexico and its unacceptable consequences are the focus of this chapter. The invisibilization,...
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Maternal Sentencing and the Rights of the Child
This book brings to life the experiences of children affected by maternal imprisonment, and provides unique, in-depth analysis of judicial thinking...
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Detention Decision-Making in Slovenia Using the Computerized Risk Assessment Tool Detention v1.0: Effective Use of Machine Learning Algorithms from the Perspective of the Defendant’s Procedural Rights
Judicial systems will soon no longer be able to avoid the process of modernization in the form of day-to-day use of algorithms. In the United States...
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Does Human Smuggling Converge with Other Transnational Crimes in North Africa and the Mediterranean Area?
This study investigates the convergence between human smuggling and other transnational crimes (i.e., trafficking of drugs, tobacco, weapons,...
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The Indigenous Turn: Epistemic Justice, Indigenous Knowledge Systems, and Social and Emotional Well-Being
Colonial research practices across centuries have appropriated, exploited, and effectively ignored Indigenous knowledges across time. Part of...