27:T53b,

The study seeks to investigate the collective punishments used by Israel against Palestinians and their impact on social cohesion, psychological well-being, and daily lives. It analyzes the experiences of Palestinians subjected to collective punishment by Israel through a qualitative research design. Sixty participants were selected from various groups, including residents, workers, farmers, and vulnerable populations. Data was collected through structured interviews over 3 months and thematic analysis was used to provide a detailed understanding of participants’ experiences. The study highlights the widespread collective punishment including movement restrictions, house demolition, displacement, indiscriminate retaliation, infrastructure destruction, and restrictions on family access. Collectively, these practices result in severe psychological trauma, disrupted social cohesion, and economic devastation while fostering resilience through social solidarity, cultural preservation, and innovative coping strategies. Despite these challenges, Palestinians exhibit resilience through social solidarity, cultural preservation, and innovative coping strategies. The findings underscore the urgent need for international attention to address the humanitarian crisis and systemic injustices caused by collective punishment.

28:T4c1,

This article examines how punishment is reinterpreted through retrospective prison narratives of former heroin dealers in China. Drawing on life-history interviews, the analysis identifies four interrelated narrative stages—suffering, endurance, affection, and reflection—that emerged inductively from how participants recounted their imprisonment. Each stage reveals a distinct mode of emotional and moral negotiation: from enduring physical and moral pain, to learning to submit and cope, to forming affective bonds that humanize control, and finally to reinterpreting punishment as part of a broader moral order. Together, these narratives show that punishment does not end with release but continues through memory, storytelling, and ethical reflection. Rather than a linear path of reform, punishment operates as a delayed, affective, and moral process, whose meaning is continually reshaped by emotional fissures and retrospective storytelling. Grounded in the Chinese penal context, this study contributes an integrated framework that links narrative structure to emotional drivers, demonstrating how punishment endures as a continuing moral process through the reconfiguration of meaning over time.

29:T54e,

This article investigates how China's smart drug-control systems, an emerging representation of digital platforms designed for community-based drug rehabilitation, reproduce and amplify structural violence, imposing punishment under the guise of improving the effectiveness of rehabilitation. Drawing on observation and semi-structured interviews conducted in three mainland Chinese cities, we identify three forms of violence embedded in the digital rehabilitation: labelling violence, which reduces complex individuals to algorithmically produced risk scores; silent violence, which recodes emotional withdrawal or digital non-participation as non-compliance; and classification violence, which repurposes recovery as a tool for state-led stability maintenance. These findings advance critical criminology and digital governance studies by demonstrating how digital technologies, overclaiming the balance of rehabilitation rationality and administrative efficiency, transform rehabilitative care into a mechanism of biopolitical control. Ultimately, we argue that digitalisation in rehabilitation does not necessarily signify progress or inclusion; rather, it often obscures and intensifies inequalities in new, technocratic forms. Research and policy implications of this study are also addressed.

2a:T689,