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Older sex offenders – managing risk in the community from a policing perspective (2016)
Journal Article
Bows, H., & Westmarland, N. (2018). Older sex offenders – managing risk in the community from a policing perspective. Policing and Society, 28(1), 62-74. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2016.1138476

Although there has been an increase in research and policy attention examining sex offenders, their motivations and how ‘risk’ should be managed in relation to registered sex offenders in the community, the majority of these efforts have concentrated... Read More about Older sex offenders – managing risk in the community from a policing perspective.

Varieties of Legal Systems: Towards a New Global Taxonomy (2016)
Journal Article
Siems, M. (2016). Varieties of Legal Systems: Towards a New Global Taxonomy. Journal of Institutional Economics, 12(03), 579-602. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1744137415000545

Legal scholars, economists and other social scientist often refer to the idea that countries can be classified into a number of ‘legal families’ or ‘legal origins’. Yet, this research is unsatisfactory as regards the actual classifications of the leg... Read More about Varieties of Legal Systems: Towards a New Global Taxonomy.

Socio-Economic Rights During Economic Crises: A Changed Approach to Non-Retrogression (2016)
Journal Article
Warwick, B. T. (2016). Socio-Economic Rights During Economic Crises: A Changed Approach to Non-Retrogression. International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 65(01), 249-265. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0020589315000494

When the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) released a letter in early 2012 addressing the financial and economic crises, it was long overdue. Finally, and around four and a half years after the crises began, the body respon... Read More about Socio-Economic Rights During Economic Crises: A Changed Approach to Non-Retrogression.

Protecting Human Dignity: Reframing the Abortion Debate to Respect the Dignity of Choice and Life (2016)
Journal Article
Halliday, S. (2016). Protecting Human Dignity: Reframing the Abortion Debate to Respect the Dignity of Choice and Life. Contemporary Issues in Law, 13(4), 287-322

This article sets out an alternative framework for viewing and regulating the unique biological state that is pregnancy, by reference to the protection of human dignity. It focusses upon the context of abortion, arguing that reproductive exceptionali... Read More about Protecting Human Dignity: Reframing the Abortion Debate to Respect the Dignity of Choice and Life.

Organised crime and corruption in the UK: responding through law (2016)
Journal Article
Campbell, L. (2016). Organised crime and corruption in the UK: responding through law. Criminal law review, 2016(1), 20-34

Examines UK law's response to "corruption by organised crime". Reviews the nature of such crime, the scope of the problem, the concepts of "corruption" and "organised crime", and the offences of inappropriate accessing of information, misconduct in p... Read More about Organised crime and corruption in the UK: responding through law.