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Legal reality or legal mirage? Examining the relationship between police violence, legal consciousness, and the promise of civil legal justice 法律现实还是法律海市蜃楼？研究警察暴力、法律意识和民事法律正义承诺之间的关系

Punishment & Society Pub Date : 2024-03-18 DOI: 10.1177/14624745241237702

Theresa Rocha Beardall

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A reality check on the digitalisation of prisons: Assessing the opportunities and risks of providing digital technologies for prisoners 监狱数字化的现实检验：评估为囚犯提供数字技术的机遇和风险

Punishment & Society Pub Date : 2024-03-18 DOI: 10.1177/14624745241237190

Veronika Hofinger, Philipp Pflegerl

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‘A pre-requisite of progress’? Prison modernisation and new prison building in England and Wales 进步的先决条件"？英格兰和威尔士的监狱现代化和新监狱建设

Punishment & Society Pub Date : 2024-02-11 DOI: 10.1177/14624745241229149

Robert Jones, Emily Hart, David Scott

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‘A pre-requisite of progress’? Prison modernisation and new prison building in England and Wales 进步的先决条件"？英格兰和威尔士的监狱现代化和新监狱建设

Punishment & Society Pub Date : 2024-02-11 DOI: 10.1177/14624745241229149

Robert Jones, Emily Hart, David Scott

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Book Review: Caged Emotions: Adaptation, Control and Solitude in Prison, Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology by Ben Laws 书评笼中情感：监狱中的适应、控制与孤独》，《帕尔格雷夫监狱与刑罚学研究》，本-劳斯著

Punishment & Society Pub Date : 2024-02-08 DOI: 10.1177/14624745241229044

Elena Vasiliou

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Book Review: Caged Emotions: Adaptation, Control and Solitude in Prison, Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology by Ben Laws 书评笼中情感：监狱中的适应、控制与孤独》，《帕尔格雷夫监狱与刑罚学研究》，本-劳斯著

Punishment & Society Pub Date : 2024-02-08 DOI: 10.1177/14624745241229044

Elena Vasiliou

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States of denial: Magdalene Laundries in twentieth-century Ireland 否认的状态：二十世纪爱尔兰的马格达林洗衣店

Punishment & Society Pub Date : 2024-01-09 DOI: 10.1177/14624745231218470

Louise Brangan

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The monster and the self: Taking on the monstrosity of sexual violations 怪物与自我面对性侵犯的畸形行为

Punishment & Society Pub Date : 2024-01-03 DOI: 10.1177/14624745231221933

Anja Emilie Kruse, May-Len Skilbrei

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Punishment is purple: The political economy of prison building 惩罚是紫色的：监狱建设的政治经济学

Punishment & Society Pub Date : 2024-01-02 DOI: 10.1177/14624745231218521

John M Eason, Mary E Campbell, Benjamin Ghasemi, Eileen Huey

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Border control within Spanish prisons? Intersections between immigration control and imprisonment at the southern border of Europe 西班牙监狱的边境管制？欧洲南部边境的移民控制与监禁之间的交集

Punishment & Society Pub Date : 2024-01-02 DOI: 10.1177/14624745231224163

Cristina Güerri

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