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The Cultural Idiosyncrasy of Penal Populism

British Journal of Criminology, 2014
This article explores the socio-cultural divergences of penal populism in a Chinese context. It examines whether penal populism has become an influence on shaping China’s punishment after the Maoist era. By tracing the trends in criminal justice and penal policy over the last three decades, it argues that China has developed a relatively weak version ...
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Populism and Punitive Penal Policy

Criminal Justice Matters, 2002
(2002). Populism and Punitive Penal Policy. Criminal Justice Matters: Vol. 49, Public Perspectives and Participation, pp. 4-5.
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Penal Populism and Public Opinion

2002
Abstract Although criminal justice systems vary greatly around the world, one theme has emerged in all western jurisdictions in recent years: a rise in both the rhetoric and practice of severe punishment at a time when public opinion has played a pivotal role in sentencing policy and reforms.
Julian V Roberts, Loretta J Stalans, David Indermaur, Mike Hough   +3 more
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Against Penal Populism: Democratising the penal sphere

2022
New Challenges for the Criminal Justice ...
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Criminal justice and penal populism in Ireland

Legal Studies, 2008
In constructing criminal policy the Irish legislature seems to be driven predominantly by a pragmatic and populist approach, in contrast to the rights-oriented jurisprudence of the Supreme Court. This paper describes the conflict between the courts and the legislature in relation to criminal justice matters in Ireland, particularly in the context of ...
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Penal Populism

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2023
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Penal Populism and Children of Imprisoned Parents

2014
Since prisoners’ families — perhaps especially prisoners’ children — can be severely affected by the use of imprisonment, and since this area has suffered from a remarkable lack of awareness historically, it is obvious to ask whether and to what degree there is currently political focus on prisoners’ children.
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Penal Populism in Criminal Cases in Courts

ZANKO Journal of Law and Politics
Penal populism is an approach in which the criminal justice system policy makers and practitioners formulate and implement dramatic and popular criminal policies to draw public opinion regardless of scientific findings. Populism may penetrate substantive criminal rules, and in this regard, severe penalties might be approved by lawmakers. Penal populism
Halala Rahman, Mahdi Mahdi, Hind Hameed
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China’s urban underclass population and penal policy

Criminology & Criminal Justice, 2015
China’s economic modernization has created a new underclass population characterized by destitution and dispossession. This group is linked to social instability that intimidates the state’s control of the society. This article examines Chinese penal policy changes in the face of the rising underclass in urban areas.
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Penal populism: Negotiating the feminist agenda. Evidence from Spain and Poland

European Journal of Criminology, 2021
Magdalena Grzyb
exaly