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What enhances dairy system resilience? Empirical cases in Finland and Russia

Dairy systems, which are the main pillars of rural livelihoods in north-eastern Europe encounter ecological, economic, and political changes in their operating environments which threaten their ... . 2016 ). In recent decades, dairy systems, which are the main pillars of rural livelihoods in northeastern Europe, have encountered ecological, economic, and political changes in their operating

The Problem of Habitual Offender Laws in States with Felony Disenfranchisement

office due to felony disenfranchisement laws. Thus, habitual offender laws target a formally disenfranchised group—people with felony convictions. That creates an archetypal political process problem. As ... he should raise that concern in the political arena, not the courts, and cast his vote accordingly. The problem for Brooker, and the one that animates this Article, is that he cannot vote. Because of

The Conundrums of Hate Crime Prevention

could prevent hate crimes from occurring in the first place. Those measures potentially include educational initiatives, conflict resolution programs, political reforms, social services, or other ... , political reforms, social services, or other proactive efforts aimed at the root causes of hate crimes. Focusing on the public conversation around anti-Asian hate crimes, this Essay argues that very

Judicial Resistance to New York's 2020 Criminal Legal Reforms

popular and political will to pass the reforms must extend beyond the passage of the law and must also create mechanisms to scrutinize, guide, and support the judiciary’s implementation of the law. ... . Although these reforms were democratic and popular, judges were not sufficiently incentivized to properly implement the changes. If reforms are to succeed, the popular and political will to pass the reforms

The Political Economy of Entrapment

Criminology by an authorized editor of Northwestern University School of Law Scholarly Commons - THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ENTRAPMENT RICHARD H. MCADAMS* INTRODUCTION By the time she was eighteen, Amy ... consider and critique the literature that seeks to justify the defense based on retributive theory, utilitarian theory, and political/institutional concerns. In each case, I do not claim that there is no

Risk-Based Sentencing and the Principles of Punishment

, INEQUALITY 247–48 (1993); G.A. Cohen, How to do Political Philosophy, in ON THE CURRENCY OF EGALITARIAN JUSTICE, AND OTHER ESSAYS IN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY 228–29 (Michael Otsuka ed., 2011). to be punished.162 ... grateful to participants at the Stanford Law and Philosophy workshop for feedback on an early draft of this paper. And I owe special thanks to Juliana Bidadanure, Jessica Eaglin, James Forman Jr., Aziz Huq

Reconceiving Coercion-Based Criminal Defenses

is (prima facie) wrongful because it puts wrongful pressure on [the target’s] freedom to do otherwise.”); Mitchell Berman, Blackmail, in THE OXFORD HANDBOOK ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE CRIMINAL LAW 37, 62 ... personal or social characteristics such as psychological or emotional vulnerability, economic hardship, lack of a social safety net, and experience of natural disasters or political instability.56

Afterword to Lunatics and Anarchists: Political Homicide in Chicago

Northwestern University School of Law Scholarly Commons Part of the Criminal Law Commons; Criminology Commons; and the Criminology and Criminal - AFTERWORD TO "LUNATICS AND ANARCHISTS: POLITICAL HOMICIDE IN

Mass Incarceration Paradigm Shift?: Convergence in an Age of Divergence

developments suggest that American penal philosophy may be inching toward norms—dignity, proportionality, legitimacy, and rehabilitation—that have checked draconian prison terms in Europe, Canada, and beyond. In ... divergence or convergence in penal philosophy. Notwithstanding the ebb and flow of penal attitudes, certain long-term trends have emerged in Western societies. They encompass a narrowing scope of offenders

Conventional versus organic olive farming: which has a better economic performance?

objectives will require the active involvement of farmers, who must find innovative solutions to meet these new social and political demands and reduce environmental impacts while maintaining the productivity ... each economic performance dimension considered: productivity, profitability, viability, resilience, and independence. By so doing, we can highlight the factors on which political action should be focused

The coexistence of psychological drivers and deterrents of consumers’ willingness to try cultured meat hamburger patties: evidence from South Africa

different aspects of cultured meat (Wilks et  al. 2019) , the omnivore’s paradox (Fischler 1988) has been applied. This philosophy describes people’s simultaneous aversion and attraction to new food

Supporting agriculture in developing countries: new insights on the impact of official development assistance using a climate perspective

compromise or reinforce the effectiveness of foreign aid. These are the ratio between broad money and GDP, the Food Consumer Price Index, weather variables (temperatures and precipitations), political ... . 2015; Chavas et al. 2019) . Political stability, which is also a proxy for institutional quality, improves a country’s ability to attract foreign investments and development assistance (Burnside and

Characterisation of food governance for alternative and sustainable food systems: a systematic review

taken for granted” (Marsden et al. 2018, p. 1302) . On the whole, and from a holistic perspective, AFS adopt institutional and political aspects that are articulated around FS (Feenstra 2002 ... environmentally sustainable and nutritious food on the political agenda (Lever et al. 2019) . This analytical approach also refers to local food governance, but in particular, these are studies focused on the

Cultured meat acceptance for global food security: a systematic literature review and future research directions

meat as a substitute meat product. External factors In the original framework of Stoll-Kleemann and Schmidt (2017) , external factors comprise political as well as economic market aspects and reflect ... physical, socio-cultural, economic, and political influences […]” (Enriquez and Archila-Godinez 2022, p. 3700) . In other words, the food environment dictates access to specific types of food in a market

Like Putting Lipstick on a Pig: Why the History of Crime Control Should Compel the Prohibition of Incentivized Witness Testimony Under Fundamental Fairness Principles

later bureaucratic policing institutions through taxes and political influence.25 In the North, those “mercantile interests” were “commercial elites” who wanted to transfer the costs of protecting their ... equal human, economic, and political rights.39 Meanwhile, police in general, including in the North, steadily grew into pervasive control mechanisms over an “underclass” comprised “primarily of the poor

Habit, Crime, and Culpability

PHILOSOPHY, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2016/entries/consequentialism-rule [https://perma.cc/ 9JT2-FG52] (observing that consequentialists almost never defend a purely “actconsequentialist decision ... these activities.”); Gideon Yaffe, The Voluntary Act Requirement in THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF LAW 174, 176 (Andrei Marmor ed., 2012) (“If a defendant is . . . shown to have engaged in a

Recent trends in agri-food Made in Italy exports

sector, where all the elements of competition assume different importance and weight according to the political, social, and macro-economic conditions that change so fast around the world. The agri-food ... -Made in Italy items (65) distance, and also political issues, like bilateral or multilateral agreements or non-tariff barriers to trade, which can heavily condition flows and directions of trade. On this

Economic effects of food supply chain re-localization on the Croatian economy

to political instabilities © The Author(s) 2023. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation ... threshold. Contrary to the formerly prevailing paradigm of the absolute superiority of free trade in the global food market, the vulnerabilities revealed by political turmoil, the war in Ukraine and disorder

Modeling inequality in access to agricultural productive resources and socioeconomic determinants of household food security in Ghana: a cross-sectional study

services, information, and technologies (Justice et  al. 2022). Moreover, the traditional division of labor and sociocultural and political factors often relegates women to manual, time-consuming operations ... -coastal effect). There should be strong political will and social dialogue to focus all stakeholders on encouraging growth in rural agriculture in the coastal and non-coastal rural communities to improve

Death with Dignity for the Seemingly Undignified: Denial of Aid in Dying in Prison

extension end-of-life care, has included whether a competent adult has a right, or should have a right to end their own life on their own terms. The history of aid in dying is wrought with political ideology ... , judges invoke the history and philosophy of suicide to reject aid in dying.5 It is therefore necessary to not only situate the taking of one’s own life within philosophical understandings of suicide, but