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Introduction: Transformations of European Welfare States and Social Rights
In this introductory chapter, we outline the literature in which the anthology is positioned and the anthology’s contribution hereto. We account for...
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Sex Workers Rights Are Human Rights: Or not? The Art of Stealing Back Human Rights
Since the 1970s, sex workers across the world have used the human rights framework to claim legitimacy and advocate for civil and labour rights with...
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Conclusion: Transformations of European Welfare States and Social Rights
This anthology offers analyses of transformations of European welfare states and social rights from a diverse set of perspectives and contexts. This...
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Children in Conflict with the Law: The Rights-Based Framework
Throughout recent decades, a large body of children’s rights standards has been developed, setting a clear benchmark for the protection of children’s...
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Protecting Children: Childhood, Rights, and the Trafficked Child
This chapter serves as a foundation stone for the subsequent interrogation of the various international legal responses to the trafficking of...
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Access to Justice and Social Rights for Victims of Trafficking and Labour Exploitation in Sweden
This chapter delves into the challenges encountered by victims of human trafficking and other forms of labour exploitation in Sweden as they struggle...
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Environmentalism, Diverse Gender Rights, and the Future of American Society
Examines the American Indian Movement and the Civil Rights Movement as progressive social forces and social character types. Argues that...
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Legal Fictions, Dystopian Truths: [Re]Writing Family Life Rights
Forced adoptionForced adoption and orphanisationOrphanisation have frequently been depicted in various works of dystopianDystopia fiction: usually...
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Designing Research for Studying How Subnational Actors Use International Human Rights Treaties
This book examines how subnational actors use international human rights treaties and how subnational political authorities, including subnational...
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Pre-employment Eligibility and Predicating Self-Harm in Law Enforcement Personnel
Over the decades, law enforcement organizations have continued to screen and hire law enforcement employees based upon standards established through...
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Experience of Employment Barriers on Release from Custody and the Impact of This on a Cycle of Poverty and Reoffending
This chapter will focus primarily on the barriers to employment and the cyclical relationship between work, offending and poverty,...
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Conclusions: How to Curtail the Legalised Prostitution Rates and Protect Sex Workers’ Rights
In this chapter, the author revisits Thailand’s latest drafted law on legalising prostitution. The author explains how legalising prostitution is...
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Child Trafficking, Children’s Rights, and Modern Slavery: International Law in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
This chapter follows the preceding chapter, focusing upon the international legal regulatory framework implemented to address human rights, slavery,...
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‘The Alchemy of Race and Rights’: The Logic of Historicizing the Contemporary Racialized Youth and Gang Phenomenon
The Alchemy of Race and Rights: The Logic of Historicising Narratives of Race, Youth and Gangs, Esmorie Miller maintains that explanations of the...
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Exploring the Rhetoric: How State Gender Diversity Laws Address Rights for Gender-Diverse Students
In 2017, the Trump Administration withdrew Obama-era civil rights protections for transgender students in public school in the United States (US)....
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Call It Democracy: The Slippage Amongst Rights, Laws, and Values in Canada During the Pandemic Era
This chapter critically examines the judicial upholding to date of pandemic measures within Canada, arguing that courts have, in many cases, engaged...
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Trafficking North Korean women into China for forced marriage: Evidence from court judgments
Trafficking in women for forced marriage is a serious violation of women’s rights and a pervasive concern globally. However, empirical studies about...
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Housing Ex-Offenders in the Netherlands: Balancing Neighbourhood Safety and Human Rights
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognises stable housing as a prerequisite for an adequate standard of living. A home provides shelter and...
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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
The current study offers a first attempt to examine a relationship between the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and racially motivated and extremist...
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Women in the Criminal Justice System, Research Methodology, and Case Studies
The women’s and civil rights movements had raised multiple issues of the society, and of course criminal justice system is also one of those...