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The recall of a release modality (such as a conditional release) is a particularly painful experience. The experiences during a release modality can also be very painful and varied: uncertainty, stigmatization, a large number of imposed conditions, constant control and supervision, etc. In addition, a return to prison as a result of a recall can also be experienced as emotional, painful and harmful because of the loss that the recall entails. A ...

Firm-level sales are often used as a proxy for productivity to quantify welfare gains from trade (GFT) using firm-level data. This approach ignores the fact that heterogeneity in firm-level sales is driven by factors other than productivity. Our theoretical and empirical analysis reveals that using sales as a proxy conflates persistent productivity with transitory demand and supply shocks, resulting in an over-dispersed productivity ...

As the guest editors of this special issue of Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal we invited comics and media scholars to discuss girlhood from the perspective of transnational and/or transmedia practices. These investigations avoid the trap Anita Harris warned us about in All about the Girl (2004) since they approach girlhood as a “constantly shifting” category, to use the words of Kristine Moruzi (2012: 191) rather than as a natural ...

This dissertation sets out to study the role of the material and natural world in communication between grandparents and young grandchildren over distance. Two guiding notions of doing and triviality, grounded in the theoretical notion of agency in relation (Barad, 2007), serves as the thread in three chapters. In the first chapter, doing is studied with a specific interest in physical items and communication technologies, which are grouped as ...

Increasingly, science-policy-oriented publications discuss the potential of 'relational values of nature' to bolster future conservation related decision-making. This paper unravels two meanings of relational values and elabo-rates on how these may add to the toolkit of conservation. Firstly, it is explained how relational values are a third axiological category and compare to instrumental and intrinsic values assigned to nature. Secondly, it is ...

Purpose In the social policy literature, it is often assumed that universal policies are more popular than selective ones among the public, because they supposedly generate broader self-interested coalitions and are considered morally superior. The present article revisits and challenges this assumption. Design/methodology/approach The article critically reviews the existing empirical literature on public support for universal and means-tested ...

Sacrifice, this interdisciplinary investigation asserts, offers a fascinating hermeneutical paradigm to shed new light on the history of criminal law and political power from about the later Middle Ages until the fall of the ancien régime. By teasing out sacrificial tenets of Western political theology, the sacrificial interpretation of penal history which I propose can be contextually embedded. René Girard, above all others, provides the main ...

Inspired by the rich literature on mobility and moved by our own interest in the labour-related production of difference, we used the concept of mobile labour as a catalyst for current, innovative, and ethnographic approaches to labour and mobility. That includes movements for labour (migrant trajectories, economic-induced displacements), movements as labour (highly mobile jobs), and movements of labour (labour-related geographical displacement ...

Background Sexual violence (SV) is an important public health issue which may cause long-lasting health problems. Previous studies show low SV prevalence numbers in older adults as they focus on criminal cases or conflate it with other types of violence into the broader context of elder abuse and neglect, domestic violence or intimate partner violence. Yet, research on SV in older adults from a public health perspective, providing valid SV ...

Syndicat CFTC v. CPAM provided an excellent opportunity for the Court of Justice of the European Union ('CJEU') to reconsider its position taken in the Hofmann case, regarding the question to what extent additional maternity leave can be exclusively reserved for female workers without infringing Directive 2006/54. Whilst the CJEU has narrowed the grey zone, it refrains from clearly indicating the boundaries between 'maternity' and 'parenthood' ...