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    Generalists or specialists? Unpacking crime trajectories of intimate partner violence offenders
    (Elsevier, 2026) Rodríguez Menés, Jorge; Pavlopoulos, Dimitris; Rovira Sopeña, Martí; Van Damme, Maike
    This study examines the heterogeneity of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) perpetrators by distinguishing IPV specialists, whose violence is limited to partners, from IPV generalists, who also target non-partners, and comparing both to non-IPV violent offenders. Using comprehensive administrative records from Catalonia, we analyzed the complete criminal histories (1990-2019) of all individuals convicted of IPV between 2010 and 2015, alongside a 10 % sample of non-IPV violent offenders. A strict definition classified only one-quarter of IPV offenders as generalists, highlighting the impact of definitional choices on prevalence and offender profiles. Trajectory analyses identified five patterns of violent offending. IPV specialists were concentrated in late-onset, low-rate, short-duration trajectories, consistent with situational, relationship-bound violence. IPV generalists were more likely to follow early-onset, high-rate, long-duration trajectories resembling chronic violent offenders, but increasingly focused on partners with age. Differences in trajectories were only modestly explained by prior non-violent offending, suggesting that antisocial predispositions shape the target of violence more than its developmental pattern. Gender did not influence trajectory prevalence but strongly predicted the likelihood of targeting partners versus others, reflecting the interaction of patriarchal norms, situational factors, and individual predispositions in differentiating IPV specialists and generalists from other violent offenders. Overall, IPV perpetrators are heterogeneous in trajectories, offence patterns, persistence, and gender, underscoring the value of integrating typological and developmental perspectives and informing differentiated, context-sensitive interventions.
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    El consentimiento hipotético, una figura rechazable [prova]
    (Elsevier, 2025) Malem Seña JF
    La figura del consentimiento hipotético supone que una intervención médica o quirúrgica con iniciales lesiones, en la que se podía y debía haber pedido un consentimiento informado del afectado, se lleva a cabo sin ese consentimiento porque el agente parte de la base de que, si se hubiera solicitado debidamente ese consentimiento, posiblemente o muy probablemente el afectado lo habría prestado. Parte de la doctrina penal, tomando la figura del Derecho civil, ha intentado considerar que exime de responsabilidad penal, lo que es inadmisible: no se puede admitir un pretendido paralelismo con la exclusión de la imputación objetiva en los cursos causales hipotéticos en que incluso con la conducta alternativa lícita es muy posible o probable que también se hubiera producido el resultado desvalorado, porque en el consentimiento hipotético no hay un cierto riesgo de que la conducta incorrecta pueda producir el mismo resultado que la hipotética correcta, sino que la intervención sin el debido consentimiento que era posible obtener implica automáticamente y con seguridad la producción de un resultado desvalorado. No obstante, la no exención de responsabilidad penal debe limitarse a los casos de infracción suficientemente grave del deber de previa información al paciente.
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    The role of social capital with policy networks: evidence from EU cohesion policy in Spain
    (SAGE Publications, 2012) Jordana, Jacint; Mota, Fabiola; Noferini, Andrea
    This article focuses on the policy process stemming from European cohesion policy at the regional level and at its programming stage (which precedes the implementation phase). It aims to explain how the formally introduced EU "partnership" principles and rules work in practice in different political environments. The article argues that externally introduced procedural decision rules have different impacts on effective policymaking processes. In particular, we suggest that the patterns of social capital linkages carried by the actors involved produce different regional policy networks, even though the existing formal rules are similar. Relying on social network analysis as its main methodological tool, the article presents empirical evidence drawn from two similar Spanish regions, identifies the characteristics of the actors' social capital and compares the structures of the policy networks dealing with the programming tasks in the two regions. Our findings suggest that the structures differ according to the amount of linking social capital displayed by the actors involved in the policy networks. We discuss in detail our exploratory hypothesis, considering also other possible variables that might account for these variations.
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    The participation of sub-national governments in the Council of the EU: some evidence from Spain
    (Taylor & Francis, 2012) Noferini, Andrea
    By 2004 Spanish subnational governments are allowed to participate in some formal meetings of the Council of the European Union as well as in its working groups. For proponents of the multi-level governance approach, a regional presence in the Council provides evidence in support of enhanced subnational participation in EU policy making. For intergovernmentalists, on the contrary, the Spanish case demonstrates that central government still maintains a crucial gatekeeper position since it formally regulates the main aspects of subnational participation. By presenting the results of a case study on the formal participation of the Spanish regions in the Council, the paper agrees that, even in a context of Europeanization, the central state still ultimately retains some veto powers. Nevertheless, the article takes issue with the argument that subnational participation is mainly formal and lacks substantive value. The article provides evidence, on the contrary, that the definition of the joint common position reinforces intrastate relations in EU policy making with a positive net effect for subnational governments.
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