0095 2020: the pandemic, social justice, political climate, and law enforcement stress

Law enforcement is still considered a male dominated occupation resulting in the underrepresentation of women in sworn personnel positions. While it is critical for police departments to have a more representative police force, there is a lack of research on the factors that affect the likelihood of women entering policing. Past studies suggest that men and women have similar reasons for joining policing. However, research on the factors that deter potential candidates from pursuing this career path is limited. This paper examines factors that may affect the likelihood of women pursuing a career in policing. We rely on data collected from a sample of undergraduate students enrolled in criminal justice courses (n = 421). Our results show that, relative to men, women are less likely to be interested in pursuing a career as a police officer. However, more than half of the women in our sample reported interest in pursuing a career in policing. We find that for men and women, the likelihood for pursuing a career in policing was affected by a number of personal characteristics and the current socio-political climate. While a notable limitation of our study is its limited generalizability, overall, our findings offer some promise for the potential of representative policing.

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Law Enforcement Violence in the Black Community: A Catalyst for Clinician Engagement in Social Justice

American Journal of Preventive Medicine ◽

10.1016/j.amepre.2021.07.002 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Marcus D. Rushing ◽

Andre G. Montoya-Barthelemy ◽

Fozia A. Abrar ◽

Eduardo M. Medina ◽

Helen A.O. Popoola-Samuel ◽

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Keyword(s):

Social Justice ◽

Law Enforcement ◽

Black Community

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Social Justice on Environmental Law Enforcement in Indonesia: The Contemporary and Controversial Cases

The Indonesian Journal of International Clinical Legal Education ◽

10.15294/ijicle.v2i1.37324 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 57-72

Author(s):

Adiguna Bagas Waskito Aji ◽

Puji Wiyatno ◽

Ridwan Arifin ◽

Ubaidillah Kamal

Keyword(s):

Social Justice ◽

Law Enforcement ◽

Environmental Law

Kaidah dasar yang melandasi pembangunan dan perlindungan lingkungan hidup Indonesia terdapat dalam pembukaan Undang-Undang Dasar 1945 pada alinea ke-4 yang pada pokoknya mewajibkan pemerintah untuk mendayagunakan sumber daya alam yang ada untuk sebanyak-banyak kesejahteraan rakyat. Pemikiran tentang kewajiban negara ini secara konstitusional tersebut lebih dijabarkan lagi dalam Pasal 33 Undang-Undang Dasar 1945, yaitu prinsip negara, bumi dan segala kekayaan yang terkandung di dalamnya serta menjadi hajat hidup orang banyak dikuasai oleh negara untuk digunakan untuk kehidupan orang banyak atau dengan kata lain negara bertindak sebagai penyelenggara kepentingan umum. Lingkungan hidup yang baik dan sehat meruoakan hak asasi setiap warga negara Indonesia sebagaimana diamantkan dalam Pasal 28H UUD RI 1945.

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PREVENTING AND FIGHTING CORRUPTION THROUGH PUBLIC POLICIES

UNTAG Law Review ◽

10.36356/ulrev.v2i2.925 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 189

Author(s):

Dr. Drs. H. Dudu Duswara Machmudin S.H., M.Hum.

Keyword(s):

Law Enforcement ◽

Criminal Law ◽

Zero Tolerance ◽

Public Policies ◽

Political Corruption ◽

Political Climate ◽

Political Condition ◽

The Law

Law enforcement does not engage in a vaccum space, yet it is related to variables of socio-political condition, mental of the law enforcers, criminal law procedures, law ideology, NGOs, and legal awareness of the society. Moreover, fighting corruption through law enforcement demands collective awareness as stakeholders to actively participate in national efforts to prevent and eradicate corruption. Measures taken on the prevention must be built in socio-political climate and national collective culture which enforce zero tolerance to any forms of corruption, including bribery, gratification, trading influence, illicit enrichment, corporate corruption, political corruption, collusion, and nepotism.

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Black Girls and Lady Police

Affective Materialities ◽

10.5744/florida/9780813056289.003.0011 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 236-254

Author(s):

Robin Hackett

Keyword(s):

Social Justice ◽

Black Girls ◽

First Century ◽

Care Homes ◽

Political Climate ◽

Social Justice Advocacy ◽

Black And White ◽

The Future ◽

Black Bodies ◽

Ethical Response

In this epilogue, Robin Hackett begins to theorize the future of the affective ecology of the modernist body as a raced body. Hackett’s essay reaches into the realm of twenty-first-century social justice advocacy in the current political climate—a climate in which the supremacy of white bodies and segregation of black bodies are constituted by spaces of access and exclusion—to ask of the modernist body, what’s next? Drawing on a framework of emotions that have been mobilized for critical activism, love, rage, and shame, and reading the spaces of schools and restrooms, care homes and gyms, Hackett questions the logic of how public affects circulate between black and white bodies and suggests instead that a blank affect may produce an ethical response that truly matters despite how it may make us feel.

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7 Social Justice Feminism and Labor Law Enforcement in Illinois

10.1515/9780691220918-013 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 230-274

Keyword(s):

Social Justice ◽

Law Enforcement ◽

Labor Law

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The Problem of Correlation Between the Criminal Policy Humanization and the Concept of Justice at Imposing Criminal Penalties in the Republic of Kazakhstan

Journal of Advanced Research in Law and Economics ◽

10.14505//jarle.v9.1(31).19 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 147

Author(s):

Meruyert MASSALIMKYZY

Keyword(s):

Social Justice ◽

Law Enforcement ◽

Criminal Law ◽

Criminal Policy ◽

Criminal Punishment ◽

The Social ◽

Penal Institution ◽

The Republic ◽

Feasible Solutions ◽

Criminal Legislation

The article raises the problem of unjustified humanization of criminal legislation and the practice of imposing a punishment. Imposing a punishment as a legal category has been extensively studied in the works of national and foreign scholars specializing in criminal law. However, despite the importance of this institution both for the convict and for the society as a whole, this penal institution remains one of the most problematic ones. The existing conflict between the current criminal policy humanism and the concept of social justice in criminal legislation, the adequacy of a punishment to the social danger of the offense being a part thereof, makes enormous harm to all law enforcement activities. It also causes negative response in the society, thus reasonably attracting a heightened attention of criminologists and experts in criminal law and procedure. The purpose of this work, as the author sees it, is trying to find feasible solutions to one of the most urgent problems of imposing a punishment. Attention is drawn to the fact that the concept of humanism has two aspects and implies, first of all, the protection of interests of law-abiding citizens. The author considers topical issues concerning the observance of the rights of victims through the solution one of the main tasks of criminal law, namely: to restore social justice by imposing a proportionate criminal punishment. Certain provisions of the theory of criminal punishment, as well as the practice of imposing punishment by the court, are studied here. Insufficient development of norms in the current criminal legislation can create problems in law enforcement, which, in turn, can lead to a significant violation of the victims’ rights. The author makes recommendations that can contribute to the improvement of the penal system consistent with the principle of humanism, considering the interests of the victims.

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METODOLOGI PEMAHAMAN SYARI’AH (Analisis Muqaddimah Kitab al-Muwafaqat Karya Asy-Syatibi)

YUDISIA : Jurnal Pemikiran Hukum dan Hukum Islam ◽

10.21043/yudisia.v8i2.3241 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

pp. 299

Author(s):

Mukhlis Abidin

Keyword(s):

Social Justice ◽

Law Enforcement ◽

Penal Law ◽

The Law ◽

Written Law

Legality is one basic of penal law beside culpability in deciding the punishment. Legality is often perceived similar to law enforcement. According to Article 1 (1) of the Penal Law (KUHP), the law refers to written law. In fact, there is also living law mentioned in the Constitution. This kind of situation often causes the judge decision fails to meet social justice since the decision is merely based on formal law and neglected material law, such as in the case of Minah in Banyumas Court. Thus, progressive approach is necessitated in order to understand legality both in formal and material law in accordance with national legal ideals, Pancasila.

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