Comparative law is a subject always in motion. Scholarly discussion about its methodology is always vivid, in search of better tools to make the different possible comparative
endeavors. The paper explores the concept of lawscape and its link with comparative legal methodology. [...]
Crime, Media, Culture, Ahead of Print. In this paper we seek to extend Bakhtin’s reading of the folk carnival and apply it to help understand the carnivalesque, performative
aspects of state power. Drawing on the work of Agamben, Foucault, Lacan and Žižek and recent scholarship on the role of laughter in the Stalinist totalitarian culture, [...]
Feminist Criminology, Ahead of Print. Rampant sexual assault within the United States military contributes to an environment where military lawyers are exposed to vicarious
trauma while handling sexual violence cases. Through in-depth interviews, we argue that military lawyers, trained to suppress emotions during military training, often [...]
AbstractRecent empirical studies have underscored the crucial link between police performance and trust in the police. Nevertheless, the association between police performance
and trust in the police under various conditions deserves more attention. Moreover, the collective meaning of social capital is largely omitted from previous studies [...]
This is a correction to: Saul Glick, Kathryn J Spearman, Children betrayed: The unseen victims of domestic violence and how law enforcement can better protect them, Policing:
A Journal of Policy and Practice, Volume 18, 2024, doi.org/10.1093/police/paae022 [...]
AbstractThis paper presents and critically assessed the implementation of the executive state model in Greek law-making, and identifies the elements of the model that are transferable
elsewhere. The first four years of extensive legislative reforms in application of the executive state model have produced tangible innovations fertile to better [...]
Command and control are critical components of emergency management when disaster strikes. Command posts act as a support system within the command chain for leaders, and the
performance of these teams is essential for the successful operation. This paper presents the findings of a scoping review on the performance of command posts, identifying [...]