China has mainly relied on plans and policies to deal with adaptation challenges while climate legislation at the national level encounters with series of hurdles. Adaptation
and environmental law are deeply entangled with each other, and a sustainable adaptation response entails current environmental law to reform for better adaptation [...]
AbstractThe rise of exclusionary populism is widely regarded as one of the most significant phenomena in today’s political world. Despite this, the relationship between populism
and security remains under-explored in the literature, including the affective power of populist security narratives. [...]
AbstractThis paper examines new meanings that police–citizen interactions take on when officers make sense of them through the lens of body-worn cameras (BWCs). Drawing on
30 interviews with frontline police officers in a large Canadian city, we analyse the embodied character of BWCs to show how officers reframe their role and the subtleties [...]
AbstractThis paper draws on interview data and published court judgment reports to reveal first-hand accounts of illegal transactions involving protected wildlife and how criminals
collaborate with one another. This research finds that wildlife supply is controlled by a small number of key suppliers. [...]
AbstractThis paper provides insights into the predominant styles of political reasoning in England and Wales that inform penal policy reform. It does so in relation to a particular
development that constitutes a dramatic, perhaps even unique, wholesale reversal of a previously introduced market-based criminal justice delivery model. [...]
AbstractLatin America and the Caribbean (LAC) possesses 8 per cent of the global population but approximately one-third of global homicides. The region also exhibits high per
capita alcohol consumption, risky drinking patterns and a heterogeneous mix of beverage preferences. [...]
AbstractNarrative criminology prioritizes personal narratives for explaining past behaviours and shaping future decisions. Using this perspective, we rely on data from a photo-ethnography
with people who use peyote in religious ceremonies to understand how their discourses about peyote shape their experiences with it. [...]
AbstractThis article reports data from interviews with 66 professionals working across safeguarding, health, criminal justice and specialist domestic abuse services exploring
their views about older victims’ experiences of domestic abuse. The findings reveal that older victims, despite embodying many of the criteria of Christie’s ideal [...]