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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Legal violence"”.
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Self-determination as resistance to legal violence: Jurisdiction, property, and the geographies of conflict in Unistoten and Xolobeni
… is undermined by the cumulative effects of legal practices and knowledges that contribute to the division of collective autonomies and disruption of their governance practices. In this transnational and comparative work on the emerging right to consent to resource extraction in South Africa …
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'The Murderer State Will be Held to Account’ The Myth of the State and Its Violence
The legal aftermath of police violence often fails to respond to public demands of accountability. What we often witness is a two-pronged response and conclusion in the legal process; police violence is either understood as an exceptional event–i.e., the wrongdoings of a few bad cops–or such …
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Human trafficking in Ireland – reconstituting the rights identity of trafficked persons
… long-term outcomes constitute a form of legal violence (Menjívar and Abrego, 2012) where migrants are left vulnerable, not only as a result of their undocumented status but also by the very policies that are created to protect them.
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Faith in Violence: Race and the Punitive Paradigm
… confront the day-to-day activities of criminal-legal institutions, that even in the absence of overt brutality and harassment, disproportionately impact stereotyped and socioeconomically isolated communities. Thus, racial disproportion in prisons has come to signify the routine racial injustice …