{"title":"Book Review: Law and Disorder: Sovereignty, Protest, Atmosphere","authors":"A. Young","doi":"10.1177/09646639211053715","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09646639211053715","url":null,"abstract":"control over bodies, but that political control has been drawn from diseases done to the body. Refuge Beyond Reach begins and concludes with reference to the importance of sanctuary – a physical site of refuge. While sanctuary is a term more recently adopted for its connotations to political protection, COVID-19 reminds us that sanctuary also suggests a place of physical healing. In other contexts, it foregrounds the need for conservation efforts to protect the natural environment. We are now more aware than ever before that refugee populations will continue to seek sanctuary from a range of complex and overlapping political, physical, and environmental hazards. The final corrective I would offer to this book is that FitzGerald’s concluding call that civil society must rise to the challenge of guarding “paths to refuge from the duplicitous attempts to close them” (p. 265) must also be the guiding principle to protect all those who seek refuge, whether political or otherwise.","PeriodicalId":47163,"journal":{"name":"Social & Legal Studies","volume":"14 1","pages":"510 - 512"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2021-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83488237","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Diversity, Dissent and Representation: Lessons From The First Minority Judge in the Israeli Supreme Court","authors":"Manal Totry-Jubran","doi":"10.1177/09646639211043801","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09646639211043801","url":null,"abstract":"This paper seeks to enrich existing empirical research on substantive representation in the judicial system by exploring a case study of the Honorable Justice (retired) Salim Joubran, the first ethnic-minority judge appointed to the Supreme Court of Israel. By employing a dual methodology of qualitative discourse analysis and dissenting quantitative studies, the study investigates when, why and how he dissented in controversial cases, which are defined as cases that resulted in non-unanimous votes. The study shows that a quantitative study on dissenting opinions of a minority judge alone did not provide comprehensive conclusions. The complementary qualitative discourse analysis shows that in cases that challenged state actions that impacted his social group, Joubran employed distinct strategies and reasoning that are akin to feminist judgments approach. Hence, the study adds to existing research on judicial diversity indicating that women and ethnic minorities judges not only share common challenges but might also operate similar reasoning strategies. In light of these insights, the study calls for employing the combined qualitative and quantitative methodology on examining judgments focusing on dissenting opinions of women and ethnic minority judges as it offers a complex understanding of substantive representation and provides answers regarding the socio-legal effects of group affiliation on judgments.","PeriodicalId":47163,"journal":{"name":"Social & Legal Studies","volume":"43 1","pages":"603 - 622"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2021-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82815184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Refuge Beyond Reach: How Rich Democracies Repel Asylum Seekers","authors":"Susan Banki","doi":"10.1177/09646639211049104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09646639211049104","url":null,"abstract":"Annison H (2015) Dangerous Politics. Oxford: OUP. Beckett K (2001) Crime and control in the culture of late modernity. Law and Society Review 35(4): 899–929. Farrall et al. (eds) (2016) Justice and Penal Reform. Abingdon: Routledge. Jacobson J and Hough M (2018) Missed opportunities and new risks: Penal policy in England and Wales in the past twenty-five years. The Political Quarterly 89(2): 177–186. Reiner R (2021) Social Democratic Criminology. Abingdon: Routledge. Young J (1975) Working class criminology. In: Taylor I, Walton P and Young J (eds) Critical Criminology. London: Routledge, pp. 58–90.","PeriodicalId":47163,"journal":{"name":"Social & Legal Studies","volume":"200 1","pages":"505 - 510"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2021-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76977456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Coloniality, Belonging and Citizenship Deprivation in the UK: Exploring Judicial Responses","authors":"Z. Naqvi","doi":"10.1177/09646639211044294","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09646639211044294","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, I interrogate the English case law on citizenship deprivation and its effects on the migrant and diasporic communities most affected by it from a critical postcolonial perspective. I explore how it forms part of state responses to national security that are rooted in racist imperialist ideologies. These underpinnings are ignored in law because such responses are supposedly reserved for exceptional circumstances. This has led to a lack of critical awareness of the wider damage they cause. The damage caused is compounded by the ways that citizenship deprivation constitutes a technology of the politics of belonging. It orientalises people, “othering” and dividing them into those who belong and those who do not based on their differences. This approach leaves racialised and minoritised citizens more vulnerable to losing their citizenship which is a deliberate form of control reminiscent of the longstanding behaviour of colonialist imperialists.","PeriodicalId":47163,"journal":{"name":"Social & Legal Studies","volume":"26 1","pages":"515 - 534"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2021-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73026928","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"SHARON COWAN, CHLOË KENNEDY and VANESSA MUNRO (eds), Scottish Feminist Judgments: (Re)Creating Law From the Outside In.","authors":"Mairead Enright","doi":"10.1177/0964663921992106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0964663921992106","url":null,"abstract":"management and the modernization of criminal justice. Criminology and Criminal Justice 1(3): 301–318. Nelken D (ed) (1997) Comparing Legal Cultures. Aldershot: Dartmouth. Nelken D (ed) (2000) Contrasting Criminal Justice: Getting From Here to There. Advances in Criminology. Aldershot: Ashgate. Nelken D (2004) Using the concept of legal culture. Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy 29: 1–26. Raine JW and Willson MJ (1997) Beyond managerialism in criminal justice. The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice 36(1): 80–95. Salas D (2005) La Volonté de Punir. Essai Sur Le Populisme Pénal. Paris: Hachette Littérature. Vigour C (2006) Justice: L’introduction d’une rationalité managériale comme euphémisation des enjeux politiques. Droit et Sociéte 63–64(2): 425–455.","PeriodicalId":47163,"journal":{"name":"Social & Legal Studies","volume":"33 1","pages":"818 - 822"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76697587","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Different but equal? Exploring potential catalysts of disparity in remand decision-making in the youth court","authors":"Yannick van den Brink","doi":"10.1177/09646639211033709","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09646639211033709","url":null,"abstract":"The disproportionate use of remand detention (i.e. pre-trial detention) for vulnerable and marginalized youth is an issue of concern globally and demographic disparities in youth remand decision outcomes have been found in many jurisdictions, including England and the Netherlands. This article aims to explore and identify potential catalysts of disparity in the collective process of remand decision-making in youth courts. Drawing from Ulmer’s ‘inhabited institutions’ perspective, and the related ‘court community model’ and ‘focal concerns model’, and empirical findings from research in Dutch and English youth remand courts, this article suggests that several distinctive mechanisms and features of the youth remand decision-making process might function as catalysts of disparity. The findings indicate that the focus on ‘risk’ and ‘welfare needs’, the distinctive context defined by time constraints, limited information, shortages of readily available services, interdependency and interdisciplinary, and high stakes, combined with the profoundly human nature of courtroom workgroup decision-making, make the remand decision-making process in youth courts particularly prone to producing unwarranted disparities. Ultimately, informed by the theoretical perspectives and empirical findings, the article provides insights into how and why disparities might occur in youth remand decisions and offers suggestions for policy, practice and future research.","PeriodicalId":47163,"journal":{"name":"Social & Legal Studies","volume":"44 1","pages":"477 - 500"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2021-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78625278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The changing status of European Union nationals in the United Kingdom following Brexit: The lived experience of the European Union Settlement Scheme","authors":"C. Barnard, Sarah Fraser Butlin, Fiona Costello","doi":"10.1177/09646639211032337","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09646639211032337","url":null,"abstract":"Following Brexit, European Union citizens now find their rights to live and work in the UK have changed and they had to make an application under the European Union Settlement Scheme, established under the terms of the Withdrawal Agreement, by 30 June 2021 to enable them to continue to live in the UK lawfully. This article examines the experience and perceptions of those navigating the European Union Settlement Scheme and how they feel about life in the UK post-Brexit. It raises questions about identity and belonging. We also examine the other routes European Union nationals, and their family members, are choosing to use to secure their status in the UK. Our research highlights how the impacts of Brexit and European Union Settlement Scheme are unevenly felt and experienced by different European Union national groups. The article concludes that it is likely that we will only be able to measure the true extent of the ‘success’ of the European Union Settlement Scheme after the application gateway has closed on 30 June 2021, by learning what happens to those who fall between the gap, especially those more vulnerable.","PeriodicalId":47163,"journal":{"name":"Social & Legal Studies","volume":"9 1","pages":"365 - 388"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2021-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75762692","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Maintaining exceptionality: Interrogating gestational limits for abortion","authors":"E. Millar","doi":"10.1177/09646639211032317","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09646639211032317","url":null,"abstract":"Gestational limits on abortion are often seen as a condition for decriminalisation. Focusing on the final reports of three institutional law reform inquiries into abortion in Australia, this article argues that gestational limits were recommended through foreclosing the subject position of the unwillingly pregnant woman who experiences gestational time as a threat to her bodily integrity and imagined future. Structural features of law reform commissions tethered models of decriminalisation to the era of criminalisation. Abortion was also rendered meaningful in the reports through discursive tropes that centred foetal viability and constructed later abortion in terms of a delay that required explanation, with the medico-judicial categories used to explain this delay – which distinguished between ‘medical’ and ‘psychosocial’ abortions – recentring the decision-making authority of doctors. Gestational limits on abortion rearticulate the exceptionality of abortion, reinscribing the illegitimacy of abortion and the people who have them, at least at later stages of pregnancy.","PeriodicalId":47163,"journal":{"name":"Social & Legal Studies","volume":"10 1","pages":"439 - 458"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2021-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76152259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reconceptualising ‘risk’: Towards a humanistic paradigm of sexual offending","authors":"Anne-Marie McAlinden","doi":"10.1177/09646639211032957","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09646639211032957","url":null,"abstract":"Within Western criminal justice traditions, the ‘risk’ paradigm has become the defining logic of contemporary laws and policies on sex offender management. This article critically examines the limitations of current technocratic and algorithmic approaches to risk in relation to sexual offending and how they might be addressed. Drawing on nearly two decades of theoretical and empirical research conducted by the author, it applies the learning on sex offender reintegration and desistance to advance a ‘humanistic’ paradigm of sexual offending. The paper attempts to counter some of the dangers of algorithmic justice and shift risk-based discourse away from its predominantly ‘scientific’ origins. It argues that such a move towards a more expansive and progressive version of risk within criminal justice discourses would better capture the realities of sexual offending behaviour and its real-world governance.","PeriodicalId":47163,"journal":{"name":"Social & Legal Studies","volume":"13 1","pages":"389 - 408"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2021-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89371304","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}