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A Comparison of Female Delinquents: The Impact of Child Maltreatment Histories on Risk and Need Characteristics among a Missouri Sample
Dannerbeck-Janku, Anne; Peters, Clark; Perkins, Jacob - In: Laws 3 (2014) 4, pp. 780-797
While boys who offend have been a dominant majority and primary concern of the juvenile court since its earliest days, the population of delinquent girls has increased in recent years at a far higher rate in the U.S. The special challenges presented by females, however, continue to be generally...
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Why Workers’ Rights Are Not Women’s Rights
Gottfried, Heidi - In: Laws 4 (2015) 2, pp. 139-163
contracts and employment relations systems. By excavating the gender subjects implicit to and explicit in regulations of labor … naturalizing gender-based power relations. The paper identifies various laboring activities associated with differential rights and …
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Engendering the Evidence Base: A Critical Review of the Conceptual and Empirical Foundations of Gender-Responsive Interventions for Girls’ Delinquency
Kerig, Patricia K.; Schindler, Sheryl R. - In: Laws 2 (2013) 3, pp. 244-282
gender differences in the risk factors that are associated with delinquency. Moreover, the call has been made for the … implementation of gender-specific or gender-responsive interventions in order to effectively divert girls from an antisocial course …. However, questions have been raised about three key assumptions underlying the gender-responsive approach to girls involved in …
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“The Mad”, “The Bad”, “The Victim”: Gendered Constructions of Women Who Kill within the Criminal Justice System
Weare, Siobhan - In: Laws 2 (2013) 3, pp. 337-361
-violence reflects the discourses surrounding gender, all of which assume that women possess certain inherent essential characteristics … justice system and society, depending on the construction of their crime, their gender and their sexuality. Symbiotic to …
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Regulating Lesbian Motherhood: Gender, Sexuality and Medically Assisted Reproduction in Portugal
Machado, Tânia Cristina; Brandão, Ana Maria - In: Laws 2 (2013) 4, pp. 469-482
Portuguese legislation emerges as a mechanism of partial deregulation of the gender regime since it appears to weaken the …” means; (v) parenthood as a mechanism of social reproduction of the gender regime. These assumptions are differently combined …
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A Pirate too Needs to be Heard: Procedural Compromises in Online Copyright Infringement Cases in the UK
Mysoor, Poorna - In: Laws 3 (2014) 3, pp. 553-579
Online copyright infringement is one of the toughest challenges the content industry has faced in the twenty first century. Article 8(3) of the Information Society Directive, implemented under section 97A of the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, provides an injunctive remedy in...
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Providing an Architecture Framework for Cyberjustice
Aubert, Benoit A.; Babin, Gilbert; Aqallal, Hamza - In: Laws 3 (2014) 4, pp. 721-743
The paper illustrates how architecture can be used to show the contribution and the use of technology in the legal system. The models created enable the rapid identification of the stakeholders, their objectives, the technologies they use, and their goals. Such understanding helps decision...
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Addressing Trauma and Psychosocial Development in Juvenile Justice-Involved Youth: A Synthesis of the Developmental Neuroscience, Juvenile Justice and Trauma Literature
Evans-Chase, Michelle - In: Laws 3 (2014) 4, pp. 744-758
Youth incarcerated in the juvenile justice system are disproportionately exposed to traumas both in and outside of custody that are associated with poor social, behavioral, and developmental outcomes. The purpose of this paper is to describe one pathway through which trauma can impact a myriad...
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Decision-Making, Legal Capacity and Neuroscience: Implications for Mental Health Laws
McSherry, Bernadette - In: Laws 4 (2015) 2, pp. 125-138
Neuroscientific endeavours to uncover the causes of severe mental impairments may be viewed as supporting arguments for capacity-based mental health laws that enable compulsory detention and treatment. This article explores the tensions between clinical, human rights and legal concepts of...
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Prevention and Punishment: Barriers to Accessing Health Services for Undocumented Immigrants in the United States
Monga, Parul; Keller, Allen; Venters, Homer - In: Laws 3 (2014) 1, pp. 50-60
Undocumented immigrants face significant challenges in accessing health care. Throughout the United States, these challenges may relate to the structure of the public health system in which the undocumented find themselves. In addition, local, regional, and national practices aimed at targeting...
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