Determinants of Penal Policies
Many of the generalizations bandied about in discussions of penal policy in Western countries are not true. If penal populism (Pratt 2007) or populist punitiveness (Bottoms 1995) exists at all, it is mostly as reifications in academics’ minds of other academics’ ideas. Imprisonment rates have not risen substantially everywhere in the last fifteen years.
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Public Attitudes Toward Crime and Incarceration in Finland [PDF]
The following paper provides insights into Finland’s criminal justice system and discusses the policies that emphasize using prison for rehabilitation, not merely for punishment.
Ekunwe, Ikponwosa O. +2 more
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ABSTRACT This article is an extended review of Jeffrey Ian Ross's student textbook, ‘Introduction to Convict Criminology’. The review tackles critical issues emerging in convict criminology and the wider lived experience movement. The review engages with various approaches taken by Ross, in particular the book's focus on his own contributions to ...
Rod Earle
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Medical society engagement in contentious policy reform: the Ethiopian Society for Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ESOG) and Ethiopia’s 2005 reform of its Penal Code on abortion [PDF]
Sarah Jane Holcombe
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Principio de oportunidad en el proceso penal militar colombiano [PDF]
El principio de oportunidad en Colombia es de naturaleza constitucional y otorga facultad a la Fiscalía General de la Nación, para suspender, interrumpir y renunciar a la persecución penal, es decir, es una excepción al principio de obligatoriedad en ...
Moya Romero, Jesús Antonio
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ABSTRACT This article reframes the concept of imminence of suicide risk of mentally ill offenders under Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which enshrines the right to life. The proposal is based on Article 2 domestic violence jurisprudence which has built its knowledge of lethal risk by reference to relevant expertise.
Sabina Garahan
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Exploring and Explaining the Use and Proliferation of Whole Life Orders in England and Wales
ABSTRACT Whole life orders (WLOs) represent the power of the state to inflict harm at its most extreme, with such sentences being found to be in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights. However, very little research has endeavoured to understand the use of WLOs.
Hannah Gilman, Jake Phillips
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Indenture, Transportation, and Spiriting: Seventeenth Century English Penal Policy and ‘Superfluous’ Populations [PDF]
Anna Suranyi
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Restorative Justice, Crime Victims and Penal Welfarism. Mapping and Contextualising Restorative Justice Policy in Scotland [PDF]
Giuseppe Maglione
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Kebijakan Non Penal dalam Upaya Pencegahan dan Perlindungan Korban Tindak Pidana Perdagangan Orang (Trafiking) (Studi Kasus Provinsi Sumatera Utara) [PDF]
The title of this thesis is Non Penal Policy in Prevention and Protection Victims of Human Trafficking (A case study in North Sumatera Province). The basis for choosing this title, namely: The increasing number of victims of trafficking, although the law
Hamdan, M. (Muhammad) +3 more
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