Investigating the awareness of virtual and augmented realities as a criminal justice response to the plight of awaiting-trial inmates in Ebonyi State,Nigeria

Crime, Law and Social Change - Despite the reforms in the Nigerian Criminal Justice System (NCJS), the treatment of inmates still falls below standard, with the vast majority of them on awaiting...     

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Multiculturalism and its Discontents

This article examines the practical and theoretical nature ofthe concept of multiculturalism. Its focus is on multiculturalismin the public space and in immigrant states, particularly inWestern Europe. From a practical viewpoint, the article discusseswhy multiculturalism has taken centre stage in legal and politicalagendas, and how the practical application of the concept hasgiven rise to controversy in a number of states. Particularattention is given to the implications of the judgment of theEuropean Court of Human Rights in the case Refah Partisi v Turkey.In terms of a theoretical viewpoint, the role played by multiculturalismin human rights discourse is examined, as are challenges tothe concept from the fields of legal and political theory.     

A Primer on Juvenile Protective Legislation

The parens patriae doctrine is grounded in the proposition that children sometimes need the law's protection from their own improvidence or immaturity, and sometimes even from the conduct of their parents or other caretakers. Parens patriae underlies much state and federal regulation in such areas as abuse, neglect, foster care, adoption, medical decisionmaking, support, and delinquency. The doctrine also underlies the wide range of protective legislation that regulates children's conduct, the subject of this article.     

Indigeneity,Ethnicity, and the State: Australia,Fiji, and New Zealand

This article draws on the politics of indigeneity to distinguish the claims of first occupancy from simple ethnic identity politics, illustrating that relative political marginalization in Australasia is not so much a function of minority status but of indigeneity itself. The politics of indigeneity's aim is to create political space for self-determination and a particular indigenous share in the sovereign authority of the nation-state itself. The Australasian states are compared with Fiji to demonstrate that the significance of historical constraints on political authority transcend the withdrawal of a colonial power and the restoration of collective indigenous majority population status.