Flynn Asher and Fitz-Gibbon Kate (2013) A Second Chance for Justice: The Prosecutions of Gabe Watson for the Death of Tina Thomas.

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Border Struggles, Political Unity, and the Transformative Power of the Local: US Sanctuary Cities and Spain’s Cities of Refuge

[Abstract]: This article draws on theoretical insights about bordering and citizenship as strategies for socially constructing difference and the scholarship on scalar challenges underlying contemporary bordering to analyze sanctuary cities in the United States and cities of refuge in Spain. We argue that these initiatives challenge and resist restrictive national migration policies from below, at the local level, with attention to their implications at the global scale. Such policies have the potential to create meaningful social change by 1) amplifying and producing political unity across socially constructed differences and 2) “scaling down” migration politics from the national to the local level and, simultaneously, “jumping scale” via reliance on human rights framings. We conclude that sanctuary city and city-of-refuge designations are not merely symbolic; instead, these designations can be conceived of as locally based, global repertoires of action that make positive contributions in pursuit of social justice

Globalisation and criminal justice : an interactive collaborative approach to global learning

This paper outlines the use of WebCT in a collaborative assessment project between an Australian and two US universities. Informed by global trends, criminal justice practitioners increasingly move through different jurisdictions and cultural contexts. We wanted to work with students and have students work with each other in ways that prepared them to operate in international surroundings in relation to international law and the transnationalisation of criminal justice agencies. The Global Project required students to engage in a series of online activities with the aim of fostering online and international co -operation between students. Moreover, as students were studying globalisation and criminal justice, it was designed to engage students in the processes and experiences of globalisation. The use of online learning technologies in fostering the internationalisation of curriculum and developing alternative group learning strategies has offered a series of challenges which require critical reflection on the ways we globalise learning

Gendering climate change: A feminist criminological perspective

Drawing on insights from feminist scholars and activists, this article examines the dialectical relationship between climate change and the social construction of gender. We examine in detail how gender inequalities associated with capitalism, particularly in its latest Neoliberal incarnation, help to produce global warming, as well as to produce gendered vulnerabilities and unequal impacts. After a brief review of past successes and failures to integrate gender concerns into climate change debates and policies, we suggest several criminological interventions that are compatible with a feminist perspective on climate change. We argue that a stronger criminological focus on the global political economy, particularly on the gendered inequalities it produces, is analytically essential for understanding both the etiology and harmful consequences of climate change. Simultaneously, we urge critical criminologists to employ the tools of our trade to take a more proactive role in the social construction of a just and sustainable society