[{"id":3233179,"description":"Following widespread looting sprees and acts of violence occurring on the sidelines of the October 17 student protests, so-called “casseurs” seem to be the centre of attention. But the term, which comes from the French verb casser or “to break”, poses more questions than answers. The sociologist Paolo Stuppia examines the unprecedented situation many cities across France are having to contend with, and the complex combination of collective action whose motivations are unclear and the social media’s extreme agility. The Conversation: How unprecedented are the scenes of looting that we witnessed on the sidelines of the October 17 demonstrations? Paolo Stuppia: What may be unprecedented is the extent of the destruction of private property and the goods that have been stolen. It should be clear, however, that not all the looters can necessarily be sorted into identifiable groups, at least politically. Indeed, as the politician Xavier Crettiez, the sociologist Isabelle Sommier and the historian François Audigier emphasised in 2021 in their joint project Violences politiques en France , the targets of acts of violence that are considered to be politically motivated can be determined both by technical constraints and the militant culture of the people involved. Let us recall Italy in the 1970s when autonomous activists spoke of “self-reduction” (the act of seizing goods or essential services), Maoists in France spoke of proletarian reappropriation. Their raid on Fauchon’s luxury grocery store on place de la madeleine and the redistribution of goods to slums and workers’ hostels that ensued went down in history as their biggest claim to fame. Can we go as far as to say that the October 17 looting sprees were politically motivated ? Even if we do not have all the details concerning the profiles of the people arrested, videos posted on social media and stolen goods being resold online tend to rule out the idea. That said, at least some of the targets were chosen haphazardly. While some are symbols of capitalism, like luxury stores, insurance companies, banks, multinationals , others included a number of more localised stores, small shops selling toys or video games; for example, which are rarely targets for such incidents. If, especially since the alter-globalisation movement , we have seen the emergence of damage to property, primarily targeting symbols of capitalism and multinationals, in particular; this phenomenon goes hand in hand with “off the cuff” incidents by groups without any political affiliation, who join demonstrations to “get in on the act” in such a way that we are unable to determine whether it’s just a way of letting off steam or if it’s driven by a goal of redistributing goods – this weekend we witnessed some scenes of goods being redistributed, such as food being given to the homeless. What do we know about casseurs’ profiles? When did they appear in the demonstrations and when did the term first appear in the media? P.S.: Historically, the first research article on the casseur phenomenon can be traced back to the sociologist Gwenola Ricordeau . In France in the 1990s, as was the case during the student and high school movement of 1998, Ricordeau noticed that young people came to demonstrations to commit acts of vandalism or to mug people without having anything to do with the causes behind protest movements. They were driven by opportunism and also a desire to break up the monotony of everyday life. The fact of disqualifying people by designating them as “criminals on the street” therefore ultimately leads us to riot-like phenomena, with or without the “looting” element, which are part of the continuity of “suburban revolt” or “city riots” which have gradually developed in working-class neighbourhoods since the second half of the 1970s. As we demonstrated alongside the sociologist Valérie Becquet in our book Géopolitique de la jeunesse , it","source":"The Conversation – Articles (FR)","pubDate":"Thu, 22 Oct 2026 08:03:11 +0200","titre":"France’s ‘casseurs’: why the term fails to do justice to the extent of looting and spiralling unrest","url":"https://theconversation.com/frances-casseurs-why-the-term-fails-to-do-justice-to-the-extent-of-looting-and-spiralling-unrest-294805"},{"titre":"A Victim’s Criminal Justice Journey: The Value of Visual Mapping","url":"https://www.slaw.ca/2026/10/21/a-victims-criminal-justice-journey-the-value-of-visual-mapping/","pubDate":"Thu, 22 Oct 2026 07:59:03 +0200","source":"Slaw","description":"Over the past few years, I’ve delivered presentations to legal groups and member organizations focussed on “Journey Mapping”. [1] Journey Mapping is the visual representation of an individual’s journey through a process that happens over time. It is a collection of touchpoints from the beginning to the end looking at the individual’s experience, the stages in a process, the actors and emotions. It sounds like a simple concept, right? But, what is most complex is trying to explain the value of Journey Mapping in the law, because there is exceptional value, and you only have to see it to see . . . [more] The post A Victim’s Criminal Justice Journey: The Value of Visual Mapping appeared first on Slaw","id":3233085},{"pubDate":"Thu, 15 Oct 2026 08:11:35 +0200","url":"https://hdl.handle.net/1866/46747","titre":"La surreprésentation carcérale des Inuit au Québec : regards et expertises inuit","id":3217997,"description":"dc.contributor.author: Gagnon-Barbin, Léonie dc.date.issued: 2026-10 dc.description.abstract: La présente recherche examine la manière dont des experts inuit comprennent et expliquent la surreprésentation carcérale marquée des Inuit au Québec. Elle s’intéresse plus particulièrement aux argumentaires qu’ils construisent, aux savoirs qu’ils mobilisent ainsi qu’aux variations de leurs perspectives selon leurs parcours et leurs positions professionnelles. Sept experts inuit provenant des milieux communautaire, politique, judiciaire, académique et correctionnel ont été rencontrés dans le cadre d’entretiens qualitatifs semi-directifs. L’analyse des entretiens fait ressortir deux grands registres explicatifs. Le premier situe la surreprésentation dans les transformations liées au colonialisme et dans les réalités sociales, familiales et communautaires contemporaines du Nunavik qui leur sont associées. Le second porte sur le fonctionnement des institutions policières, judiciaires et correctionnelles et sur leur rôle dans les trajectoires de judiciarisation et d’incarcération des Inuit. Les experts mobilisent également des conceptions, des pratiques et des savoirs inuit pour mettre en évidence certaines limites des prises en charge institutionnelles. Les résultats montrent qu’une spécificité inuit ressort clairement des argumentaires des experts, sans que celle-ci repose principalement sur une comparaison avec les autres nations autochtones. Malgré la diversité de leurs parcours, les experts proposent des explications largement convergentes et développent une vision d’ensemble de la surreprésentation, dans laquelle les dimensions historiques, sociales et institutionnelles sont étroitement liées. Enfin, leur expertise se construit à partir d’expériences professionnelles, personnelles, familiales et communautaires étroitement imbriquées, ce qui invite à repenser les frontières de l’expertise.; This research examines how Inuit experts understand and explain the marked overrepresentation of Inuit in Quebec’s correctional system. More specifically, it focuses on the arguments they construct, the knowledge they draw on, and variations in their perspectives according to their trajectories and professional positions. Seven Inuit experts from community, political, judicial, academic, and correctional fields participated in qualitative semi-structured interviews. The analysis of the interviews reveals two main explanatory registers. The first situates overrepresentation within the transformations associated with colonialism and the contemporary social, family, and community realities of Nunavik that are linked to them. The second focuses on the functioning of police, judicial, and correctional institutions and their role in Inuit trajectories of criminal justice involvement and incarceration. The experts also draw on Inuit conceptions, practices, and knowledge to highlight certain limitations of institutional responses. The findings show that a distinct Inuit specificity clearly emerges from the experts’ arguments, without relying primarily on comparisons with other Indigenous peoples. Despite the diversity of their trajectories, the experts offer largely convergent explanations and develop an overarching view of overrepresentation in which historical, social, and institutional dimensions are closely interconnected. Finally, their expertise is built from closely intertwined professional, personal, family, and community experiences, inviting a reconsideration of the boundaries of expertise. dc.type: Thèse ou mémoire / Thesis or Dissertation etd.degree.discipline:","source":"Faculté de droit Travaux récents"},{"pubDate":"Mon, 05 Oct 2026 14:07:46 +0200","url":"https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2014/04/keep-fcra-foreground-when-subject-background-screening","titre":"Keep FCRA in the foreground when the subject is background screening","id":3198181,"description":"Keep FCRA in the foreground when the subject is background screening chundycz April 9, 2014 | 12:13AM Keep FCRA in the foreground when the subject is background screening By Lesley Fair When the talk turns to Big Data, part of the conversation is about all the public information available about people's lives – and how companies market it to prospective employers, landlords, etc.  Two cases just announced by the FTC  serve as a cautionary reminder to members of the industry that what they do may be subject to the long-standing consumer protections of the  Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) .  InfoTrack, an Illinois company, and San Diego-based Instant Checkmate will be paying civil penalties to settle FTC lawsuits that they violated the FCRA.  Is it time for an FCRA refresher at your business? Instant Checkmate marketed its reports as a way for prospective employers and landlords to investigate applicants.  For example, the company advertised that one of the “GOOD REASONS to get instant criminal checks on anyone right now” was to “check out tenants before they rent.”  It also used a Google Ad Words campaign to make sure its site appeared when people searched for background checks on nannies, babysitters, maids, and housekeepers.  What kind of information would buyers get?  Current and previous addresses, birth certificates, arrest histories, and marriage and divorce records, to name just a few examples. InfoTrack offered similar services to employers nationwide, including background screening reports with people’s driving records, education and employment information, criminal histories, and even records from sex offender registries. How does the FCRA come in?  The law defines a “consumer report” as a “communication of any information” by a consumer reporting agency (CRA) that bears on a person’s “credit worthiness, credit standing, credit capacity, character, general reputation, personal characteristics, or mode of living” which is used (or expected to be used) as a factor in establishing their eligibility for credit, insurance, employment, or other reasons outlined in the law. According to the FTC, what Instant Checkmate and InfoTrack were doing triggered the FCRA.  For example, companies covered by the law must follow procedures to assure their reports are as accurate as possible, must take steps to see that those using their reports have permissible purposes for accessing them, and must provide required User Notices explaining key protections for consumers.  The law imposes special requirements when CRAs provide reports containing public record information that could have an adverse effect on a person’s ability to get a job.  In that case, the CRA must either: 1) notify the consumer that it’s reporting the information in the public record; or 2) maintain “strict procedures” – that’s the language in the law – designed to ensure the reported public information is complete and up to date. You’ll want to read the complaints for specifics of where the FTC says the companies fell short, but one example cited in the lawsuit against InfoTrack offers an object lesson on why FCRA protections are so important to consumers – and how the consequences can be devastating when companies don’t live up to the law.  According to the FTC, the reports InfoTrack provided to prospective employers included information about whether a job applicant was on the National Sex Offender Registry.  The employer would provide the first and last name and the date of birth to help InfoTrack with its search.  The problem was that before the fall of 2011, no date of birth was available for many names on the Registry.  If InfoTrack’s search found more than one person with the same first and last name, it reported a “possible match” to employers and gave them reports that included several different people with the","source":"FTC USA Business Blog Posts"},{"titre":"War Criminals on Trial: An Inside View of the International Criminal Justice System","url":"http://journals.openedition.org/champpenal/17651","pubDate":"Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:18:35 +0200","description":"Interviewing people who have been tried, convicted, or acquitted for atrocity crimes is an incredibly difficult undertaking, potentially even dangerous. Not so much because these individuals still pose a threat, but because of the risks involved in traveling through countries with non-existent traffic rules, or because of the reputational risks for the researcher involved. In an academic field brimming with high moral expectations (“end impunity, end mass crimes”), who dares to speak to these “monsters” in the first place? Damien Scalia, professor in criminal law at the Université libre de Bruxelles, did just that. The impressive War Criminals on Trial: An Inside View of the International Criminal Justice System is a testament to his ambitious endeavor of speaking to war criminals. Over a period of fifteen years, he conducted interviews with more than sixty individuals prosecuted for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. Across different continents, he spoke to both","id":2926290,"source":"Champ pénal/Penal field"},{"description":"Interviewing people who have been tried, convicted, or acquitted for atrocity crimes is an incredibly difficult undertaking, potentially even dangerous. Not so much because these individuals still pose a threat, but because of the risks involved in traveling through countries with non-existent traffic rules, or because of the reputational risks for the researcher involved. In an academic field brimming with high moral expectations (“end impunity, end mass crimes”), who dares to speak to these “monsters” in the first place? Damien Scalia, professor in criminal law at the Université libre de Bruxelles, did just that. The impressive War Criminals on Trial: An Inside View of the International Criminal Justice System is a testament to his ambitious endeavor of speaking to war criminals. Over a period of fifteen years, he conducted interviews with more than sixty individuals prosecuted for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. Across different continents, he spoke to both","id":2926291,"source":"Champ pénal/Penal field","url":"http://journals.openedition.org/champpenal/17669","titre":"War Criminals on Trial: An Inside View of the International Criminal Justice System","pubDate":"Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:18:35 +0200"},{"pubDate":"Fri, 12 Dec 2025 10:05:22 +0100","titre":"The First Criminal Procedure Revolution","url":"https://harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-139/the-first-criminal-procedure-revolution/","id":2567814,"description":"Today, it seems obvious that criminal defendants can waive constitutional rights. Plea bargains make up the vast majority of criminal convictions, and defendants routinely trade their rights — to indictment, to remain silent, to an attorney, to a jury — in exchange for a faster trial or a lesser charge. The modern criminal legal system is a regime of negotiated justice. Rights used to have more force. The post The First Criminal Procedure Revolution appeared first on Harvard Law Review","source":"Harvard Law Review"},{"pubDate":"Thu, 15 May 2025 15:51:33 +0200","titre":"Atlantic Knowledge Transfer. U.S. Criminal Law in 19th Century Germany","url":"http://journals.openedition.org/cliothemis/5726","source":"Clio@Themis","id":2117183,"description":"The article examines the transfer of legal ideas from the U.S.A. to Germany in the long 19 th century. On the one hand, actors and paths of knowledge transfer are described. On the other hand, selected examples are used to examine which North American ideas, texts, and experiences were perceived and discussed in Germany. It is shown that two phases with different emphases of reception must be distinguished, namely a first phase from the 1830s to the 1850s and a second phase around the turn of the 20 th"},{"pubDate":"Sat, 12 Apr 2025 10:02:05 +0200","url":"https://harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-138/excited-delirium-policing-and-the-law-of-evidence/","titre":"Excited Delirium, Policing, and the Law of Evidence","source":"Harvard Law Review","id":2049598,"description":"Police use of force continues to be a significant problem in American law and society. Recent discussions have focused on doctrinal issues such as what type of force is considered “reasonable” under the Fourth Amendment and the propriety of qualified immunity as a defense that can shield law enforcement from civil litigation. However, there has been little commentary on how these and other legal questions might be informed by medicine — specifically, victim diagnoses that might effectively absolve officers from criminal prosecution or civil liability. The post Excited Delirium, Policing, and the Law of Evidence appeared first on Harvard Law Review"},{"source":"Yale Law Journal","id":1696218,"description":"The Roberts Court has methodically expanded the scope of Second Amendment rights. But in its first Second Amendment case involving a criminal defendant, United States v. Rahimi , the Court blinked. This Essay explores the implications of that","pubDate":"Tue, 12 Nov 2024 16:17:09 +0100","url":"http://www.yalelawjournal.org/forum/between-a-rock-and-a-gun","titre":"Between a Rock and a Gun"},{"url":"https://www.cornelllawreview.org/2024/05/01/a-common-law-for-the-age-of-amici-how-the-party-presentation-principle-can-help-identify-binding-precedent/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-common-law-for-the-age-of-amici-how-the-party-presentation-principle-can-help-identify-binding-precedent","titre":"A Common Law for the Age of Amici: How the Party-Presentation Principle Can Help Identify Binding Precedent","pubDate":"Mon, 24 Jun 2024 18:08:30 +0200","source":"Cornell Law Review","description":"Two recent Supreme Court cases suggest an additional dimension for the traditional test that distinguishes dicta from holding. In the first, United States v. Sineneng-Smith, the Ninth Circuit reversed a criminal conviction based on arguments made by amici appointed by that court. The Supreme Court then reversed 9-0, holding that the Ninth Circuit'''s handling","id":1414542}]