Is “Penal Populism” Really Populist? Evaluating Penal Legislation in Post-redemocratization Brazil
SAGE OpenFor over two decades, “penal populism” has been trying to explain the major developments in penal policy around the world. As a theoretical model, it is often seen as synonymous with an unrestrained growth of punishment-oriented thinking.
Gabriel Silveira de Queirós Campos +1 more
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Social Fear of Crime and Its Consequences [PDF]
Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoły Finansów i Prawa w Bielsku-Białej, 2020 Social fear of crime is a phenomenon of interest to scientific disciplines. The present study draws primarily on the achievements of criminology. It shows that there are different ways of interpreting fear of crime, explaining its causes and responding ...
Leszek Wilk, Bogdan Fibinger
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When Is an Increase in Criminal Legislation Necessary? Emphasis on Economic Criminality Discussions
Laws, 2021 The objective of this article is to answer the question of when an increase in criminal legislation is necessary. To this end, a review was conducted on the positions that deal directly or peripherally with increases in criminal legislation, with a focus
Edison Carrasco-Jiménez
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What is punitive populism? A typology based in media communication
Matrizes, 2021 Punitive populism refers to political leaders’ use of tough-on-crime rhetoric and policies to win elections and popular support. Yet, this basic definition does not capture the range of ways the practice manifests itself.
Michelle Bonner
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The COVID-19 Crisis in Romania: A Hypothesis around Penal Populism and Legal Culture
Acta Universitatis Lodziensis Folia Iuridica, 2021 In this paper I seek to present a working hypothesis to be eventually developed in a future contribution, namely that the COVID-19 crisis exposed some problematic behaviours evocative of an authoritarian ethos on the part of both public authorities and ...
Alexandra Mercescu
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How is Death Penalty Used in China? [PDF]
, 2010 Strike hard Campaigns. The Views of the People and of the Elite. Comments on the interplay between penal populism, leadership from the front and human rights.
Chan, Jason +3 more
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Prison sentence in the 21st century [PDF]
Crimen (Beograd), 2022 In this study, we analyze the features of modern imprisonment. The author, first of all, starts by pointing out the trend of penal populism which imposes a series of negative consequences for the entire social system and then evaluates five main theses ...
Đurđević Milica
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¿Puede hablarse en Colombia de populismo punitivo?
Nuevo Foro Penal, 2013 This paper explores the possibility of using the concept of penal populism to catalog the relationship between the punitive attitudes of citizens and the harsher criminal policy in Colombia.
Juan Pablo Uribe Barrera
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The explanation of the main characteristics of penal populism and examples of penal populism in some criminal law provisions and planned amendments of the Criminal Code of Serbia [PDF]
Crimen (Beograd)The article explains the main characteristics of penal populism as one very interesting criminological phenomenon and the basic manifestations of penal populism in some amendments and provisions of the Criminal Code of Serbia.
Škulić Milan, Lukić Natalija
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The Roots of “Penal Populism”: the Role of Media and Politics
Kriminologijos studijos, 2017 Penal populism is often labeled as a process whereby politicians devise punitive penal policies, which are adjudged to be “popular” within the general public, and are designed to mobilize votes rather than improve the crime and justice situation.
MARGARITA DOBRYNINA
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