Fines are commonly assumed to be non-disruptive sanctions, creating no barriers to rehabilitation or reintegration. In this paper, which draws on interviews with nine community

justice practitioners in Scotland, I show how fines enforcement is a neglected aspect of contemporary punishment, one which often obstructs prospects for rehabilitation [...]

Transparency is a key concern in global governance scholarship, yet its contribution to good governance remains deeply ambivalent. Scholars are increasingly questioning the

idea of transparency as a silver bullet, emphasizing the need to better understand its potential, pitfalls, and regulatory challenges. [...]

Policy makers are showing increased interest in understanding the impacts of public policies on subgroups of the population. We provide the first cross-regional comparison

of distributional analyses by examining 907 benefit–cost analyses (BCAs) in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the European Union from 2016 through 2020. [...]

Mediator discretion in community mediation is inevitable yet often invisible, which can obscure legitimacy, accountability, and bias in publicly funded or state-adjacent settings.

This conceptual design paper uses integrative synthesis, drawing on street-level bureaucracy, procedural justice, and dispute system design, to derive a practice-ready [...]

Regulatory sandboxes have become increasingly prevalent over the past decade. In this paper we systematically review 15 peer-reviewed studies and 5 gray literature sources

(2016–2025) identified through structured searches of Scopus, Web of Science, and regulatory repositories. [...]