AbstractEmergency services professionals can encounter human remains on a frequent basis, therefore an ability to locate and recognize skeletal elements would be highly beneficial.
While recognizing human bone has a clear utility to those involved in searching for remains, even for first responders who do not aid in the identification and analysis [...]
This article develops a framework to understand the legal profession's participation in providing services to indigent clients. Our theory is based on two factors: whether
lawyers have successful practices, and whether the legal aid delivered to indigent clients is free or below market price. [...]
How does regulatory statehood develop from the regulatory work which governments have always done? This article challenges conventional views that regulatory statehood is achieved
by transition to arm's length agencies and that it replaces court-based enforcement or displaces legislatures in favor of less accountable executive power. [...]
Priority setting by independent regulatory agencies (IRAs) is an invisible, yet essential component of regulatory law enforcement. The selection of which cases to enforce and
which to disregard is vital given IRAs’ finite resources, and due to the function of concretising open-ended administrative norms. [...]
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. [...]