Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. This article examines the impact and significance to child defendants in England and Wales of sentence communication. Drawing on a qualitative study with justice-experienced children, I suggest that how senten…
Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. Scrutiny regimes in some Australian parliaments require consideration of human rights impacts of proposed legislation, but routinely ignore gendered impacts of legislation, particularly those relating to alcoh…
Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. India is increasingly described as an ‘ethnic democracy’, ‘populist majoritarian autocracy’ or ‘ethnocracy’: a form of rule supported by an electoral majority rooted in ethnic affiliation, with limited and ero…
Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. Drawing on feminist social reproduction theory and its concern for time spent reproducing the workers of tomorrow, this paper turns to Ireland’s new periodic abortion law as a key source of knowledge for socia…
Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. Much ink has been spilt on the errors and lapses of juridical pronouncements by the higher judiciary in India. Such commentary is valuable for tracing changes in the politico-juridical and social context, as w…
Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. In this article, we examine tactics in municipal policy and the criminal law regarding socio-spatial governance of unhoused individuals in city spaces. We explore the intentions and effects of tactics such as …
Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. Social actors’ ability to navigate multiple—and at times contradictory—institutions is essential to the well-being of contemporary diverse societies. For immigrants, the process and outcome of this negotiation…
Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. This article explores the pursuit of objectivity in the Dutch asylum procedure, where asymmetrical forms of intimacy and techniques of suspicion are used to gather sensitive information from asylum applicants …
Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. For most of the last 35 years, Canada has stood alone as a global exception to the criminalization of abortion. Following the 1988 Supreme Court decision in R. v. Morgentaler, which deemed the existing federal…
Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. In what appears to be the staging of a Foucauldian drama on crime and punishment, the police, judiciary and penal system in Portugal work, albeit unintentionally, hand in hand in the production of juvenile del…