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Determinants of Penal Policies

open access: yesCrime and Justice, 2007
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]

open access: yes, 2010
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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Convict Criminology on Trial and ‘Writing From the Flesh’: A Review Essay Prompted by Introduction to Convict Criminology by Jeffrey Ian Ross, Bristol University Press

open access: yesThe Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Principio de oportunidad en el proceso penal militar colombiano [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
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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Recognising the Imminence of Suicide Risk—Reframing Positive Obligations Under the European Convention on Human Rights

open access: yesThe Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring and Explaining the Use and Proliferation of Whole Life Orders in England and Wales

open access: yesThe Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Kebijakan Non Penal dalam Upaya Pencegahan dan Perlindungan Korban Tindak Pidana Perdagangan Orang (Trafiking) (Studi Kasus Provinsi Sumatera Utara) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
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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