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Michel Foucault’s analysis in Discipline and Punish remains one of the most productive theoretical instruments for understanding how power organises the bodies, space
The absolute prohibition of torture is an unconditional and immeasurably important idea of modern constitutionalism and international human rights law. It is not
This paper examines informal prison hierarchies in contemporary Europe as sites of political power, social ordering, and geopolitical contestation, with particular focus on
On 4 August 2026 I submitted a request for public information to the South-Central Interregional Directorate for the Execution of Criminal Punishments of
On 28 August 2026, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov declared once again, in yet another interview, that all questions concerning Ukraine must be
The countries of Eastern Europe constitute a unique setting for studying profound transformations of social control. In no other region of the world
I am pleased to announce the publication of my new article, “Between Doctrine and Reality: The Institutional Fragility of the Absolute Prohibition of
8 April 2016, two local police officers in Oradea fined a woman and her mother for leaving household waste beside the wrong bin.
Contemporary migration crises – whether controlled, provoked, or spontaneously unfolding – arguably provide the most illustrative empirical material for studying the erosion of
How many people have died in the Odesa Pre-Trial Detention Centre over the past decade and a half? How many of them took