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2022
Abstract This chapter focuses on key questions in penal policy, including justice, risk management, and human rights. It also considers the principal factors which shape the development of penal policy. Notably, these are political imperatives, economic influences, and penological and criminological principles, as well as public opinion ...
Susan Easton, Christine Piper
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Abstract This chapter focuses on key questions in penal policy, including justice, risk management, and human rights. It also considers the principal factors which shape the development of penal policy. Notably, these are political imperatives, economic influences, and penological and criminological principles, as well as public opinion ...
Susan Easton, Christine Piper
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2014
AbstractThis article provides an overview of the literature leading comparative penological research. Starting from the concept of “punitiveness” as measured in imprisonment rates, it explores and critically assesses how differences in prison populations, and changes over time, have been explained by comparative criminologists.
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AbstractThis article provides an overview of the literature leading comparative penological research. Starting from the concept of “punitiveness” as measured in imprisonment rates, it explores and critically assesses how differences in prison populations, and changes over time, have been explained by comparative criminologists.
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Punishment & Society, 2000
Recently, a new approach to penal policy making has emerged in the UK and elsewhere. An elitist model is giving way to a more populist model, in which governments consult ordinary people, especially those living in areas undermined by crime and disorder, before formulating and implementing policies to tackle crime. This trend has been accompanied by a
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Recently, a new approach to penal policy making has emerged in the UK and elsewhere. An elitist model is giving way to a more populist model, in which governments consult ordinary people, especially those living in areas undermined by crime and disorder, before formulating and implementing policies to tackle crime. This trend has been accompanied by a
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2022
Emphasis on the symbolic role of prison foodways provides a particularly nuanced way of understanding the lived experiences of imprisonment. In so doing, each experience is shown to be heavily affected by the distinctive contexts in which they are embedded.
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Emphasis on the symbolic role of prison foodways provides a particularly nuanced way of understanding the lived experiences of imprisonment. In so doing, each experience is shown to be heavily affected by the distinctive contexts in which they are embedded.
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Penal Policy and Social Policy
1993The previous chapter was concerned with the demographic-social structure of the penalised population, pointing out that it is made up predominantly of the poor, minorities and migrants. This composition of the penal population was discussed purely within the framework of crime and criminal justice: the correlation of personal-social characteristics ...
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Recent Penal Policy Developments
2002Abstract This chapter explores developments in our five jurisdictions over the last two or three decades. These case studies show how public opinion has played different roles in the formation of criminal policy in different countries at different times, although commonalities do emerge.
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Crime and Justice, 2007
Abstract Scandinavian imprisonment rates are among the lowest in Western democracies, despite 20–30 percent increases in recent years, and penal policies generally are among the mildest. Reasons for this include the continuing strength and credibility of the welfare state, high levels of social trust and political legitimacy, consensual and corporatist
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Abstract Scandinavian imprisonment rates are among the lowest in Western democracies, despite 20–30 percent increases in recent years, and penal policies generally are among the mildest. Reasons for this include the continuing strength and credibility of the welfare state, high levels of social trust and political legitimacy, consensual and corporatist
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2017
A policy can be defined as a course or principle of action adopted by an organisation or individual, and there are multiple ways to examine it. While some scholars are interested in the role of power, others are interested in its development (from formulation to implementation).
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A policy can be defined as a course or principle of action adopted by an organisation or individual, and there are multiple ways to examine it. While some scholars are interested in the role of power, others are interested in its development (from formulation to implementation).
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2016
This chapter attempts to provide the reader with a firm base from which to assess penal policy. First, some preliminary issues are raised concerning key concepts. Next the penal policy task the Coalition Government set itself is explicated, thereby enabling the development of an internal critique, assessing how they did by their own standards. Finally,
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This chapter attempts to provide the reader with a firm base from which to assess penal policy. First, some preliminary issues are raised concerning key concepts. Next the penal policy task the Coalition Government set itself is explicated, thereby enabling the development of an internal critique, assessing how they did by their own standards. Finally,
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Penal Policy and Practice in Belgium
Crime and Justice, 2007Abstract Belgian imprisonment rates increased from sixty‐five to ninety‐five per 100,000 population in the past quarter century, and the use of pretrial detention and long prison sentences increased. Notorious crimes, most prominently the Dutroux case, produced mass demonstrations, and a right‐wing political party repeatedly urged harsher policies.
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