{"title":"The ‘new voyeurism’: criminalizing the creation of ‘deepfake porn’","authors":"CLARE McGLYNN, RÜYA TUNA TOPARLAK","doi":"10.1111/jols.12527","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jols.12527","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Lawmakers around the world are turning their attention to deepfake sexual abuse to reduce its prevalence and provide redress to victims. Thus far, criminal law reforms have tended to focus on the distribution of this material, with far less attention given to targeting the root cause – namely, creation and solicitation. Accordingly, we provide the first comprehensive analysis of sexually explicit deepfake creation. We explore the distinct harms of creation, including the ‘invisible threat’ of deepfake sexual abuse now pervading the lives of all women and girls. ‘Sexual digital forgeries’ is suggested as a more appropriate term that better recognizes the nature and harms of this form of abuse. We justify the deployment of criminal sanctions, advancing the idea that this phenomenon should be understood as the ‘new voyeurism’. The laws in jurisdictions that currently criminalize creating sexually explicit deepfakes are examined, together with law reform options being considered in England and Wales. We recommend that legislators act with urgency, adopting a comprehensive approach to criminalizing creation.</p>","PeriodicalId":51544,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Law and Society","volume":"52 2","pages":"204-228"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jols.12527","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144074369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Property in Contemporary Capitalism By Paddy Ireland, Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2024, 310 pp., £19.99","authors":"ROWAN ALCOCK, HELEN CARR","doi":"10.1111/jols.12526","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jols.12526","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51544,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Law and Society","volume":"52 2","pages":"325-330"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144074531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"SLSA E-Newsletter","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/jols.12525","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jols.12525","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51544,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Law and Society","volume":"52 1","pages":"E1-E16"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143564906","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring computational approaches to law: the evolution of judicial language in the Anglo-Welsh poor law, 1691–1834","authors":"SIMON DEAKIN, LINDA SHUKU","doi":"10.1111/jols.12521","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jols.12521","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The use of natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning (ML) to analyse the structure of legal texts is a fast-growing field. While much attention has been devoted to the use of these techniques to predict case outcomes, they have the potential to contribute more broadly to research into the nature of legal reasoning and its relationship to social and economic change. In this article, we use recently developed NLP and ML methods to test the claim that judicial language is systematically shaped by economic shocks deriving from the business cycle and by long-term trends in the economy associated with technological change and industrial transition. Focusing on cases decided under the Anglo-Welsh poor law between the 1690s and 1830s, we show that the terminology used to describe the right to poor relief shifted over time according to economic conditions. We explore the implications of our results for the poor law, the theory of legal evolution, and socio-legal research methods.</p>","PeriodicalId":51544,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Law and Society","volume":"52 1","pages":"3-33"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jols.12521","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143564907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Perceptions of procedural fairness and space for personal narrative: an experimental study of form design","authors":"JED MEERS, AISLING RYAN, JOE TOMLINSON","doi":"10.1111/jols.12524","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jols.12524","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Application forms – the most mundane of documents – are often the compulsory interface between an individual and the state. From social security and immigration, to health and social care, application forms are ubiquitous across almost all areas of government bureaucracy. However, socio-legal research on administrative justice tends to examine these forms from the perspective of front-line decision makers, instead of form fillers. Drawing on a survey experiment with 655 recipients of Universal Credit (a means-tested social security benefit) in the United Kingdom, we demonstrate how the inclusion of space for personal narrative in a local welfare application form – the ability to set out one's circumstances in full – significantly increases perceptions of procedural fairness. Our findings demonstrate how seemingly small changes to form design can have a considerable impact on the perceived fairness of an application process and the importance of grounding administrative justice research in the experiences of people who regularly interact with the administrative processes of the state.</p>","PeriodicalId":51544,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Law and Society","volume":"52 1","pages":"81-111"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143565255","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Law in the fullness of time The EU and Constitutional Time: The Significance of Time in Constitutional Change By Massimo Fichera, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2023, 180 pp., £80.00","authors":"PAUL LINDEN-RETEK","doi":"10.1111/jols.12522","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jols.12522","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51544,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Law and Society","volume":"52 1","pages":"136-144"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143565369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Law and conspiracy theory: sovereign citizens, freemen on the land, and pseudolaw","authors":"TARIK KOCHI","doi":"10.1111/jols.12523","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jols.12523","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines the ‘sovereign citizen’ and ‘freemen on the land’ movements and the operation of ‘pseudolaw’. Against a predominant judicial, governmental, and academic approach that portrays sovereign citizen beliefs as ‘irrational’ and ‘nonsensical’, I argue that such beliefs should be understood in terms of conflicts within the socio-historical production of ‘legitimate’ knowledge across the public sphere and popular culture. Conspiratorial sovereign citizen beliefs articulate, albeit very problematically, social concerns and suspicions in relation to transnational economic, political, and legal power. Further, such beliefs should be understood within the context of the rise to prominence and contemporary normalization of neoliberal, authoritarian populism, and a discourse of ‘inverted oppression’. Through this, a range of anti-egalitarian, ethno-nationalist, and racist beliefs are hidden behind and justified via a conspiratorial worldview that uses a supposedly ‘neutral’ pseudolegal rhetoric to defend individual liberty against a perceived social reality constituted by ongoing and extreme oppression.</p>","PeriodicalId":51544,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Law and Society","volume":"52 1","pages":"34-56"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jols.12523","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143565425","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Broken bonds: how COVID-19 border restrictions transformed experiences and conceptualizations of citizenship","authors":"KATE OGG","doi":"10.1111/jols.12518","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jols.12518","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Most scholarship on human mobility in the context of COVID-19 border restrictions is either doctrinal or focuses on health and wellbeing. This article adds to the limited research on COVID-19 border restrictions’ socio-political implications by uniquely investigating how these laws and policies affected experiences and conceptualizations of citizenship. I take Australia as a case study because it implemented some of the world's strictest COVID-19 border laws. This qualitative, interview-based study brings the citizenship and legal consciousness literatures into conversation and makes contributions to both fields. The article extends theories exploring the sentimental and existential aspects of citizenship by examining loss of citizenship as a sensation as opposed to a legal reality. The study also provides new angles on debates about ‘legal alienation’ as a distinct form of legal consciousness.</p>","PeriodicalId":51544,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Law and Society","volume":"52 1","pages":"112-135"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143565070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Integrated Offender Management and the Policing of Prolific Offenders By Frederick Cram, London: Routledge, 2023, 224 pp., £31.99","authors":"ANDY WILLIAMS","doi":"10.1111/jols.12520","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jols.12520","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51544,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Law and Society","volume":"52 1","pages":"148-152"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143564878","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Subjectivity Transformed: The Cultural Foundation of Liberty in ModernityBy Thomas Vesting, translated by Neil Solomon, London: Wiley, 2023, 288 pp., £18.99","authors":"MARTA BUCHOLC","doi":"10.1111/jols.12519","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jols.12519","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51544,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Law and Society","volume":"52 1","pages":"153-156"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143564590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}