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Det allmänna rättsmedvetandet och några svenska förarbeten på straffrättens område 2008-2018

Nordisk Tidsskrift for Kriminalvidenskab, 2020
This article focuses on what is often termed the general (or public) sense of justice, GSJ for short. It illustrates the influence that the GSJ has had on various preparatory works in Swedish criminal law during a recent decade.
Andreas Anderberg
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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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Navigating lifelong imprisonment, human rights, and evidence-based justice in a post-death penalty era [PDF]

Crimen (Beograd)
The global shift away from the death penalty has elevated lifelong imprisonment as a primary alternative, prompting a critical examination of its conceptual, legal, and human rights dimensions. This exploration navigates through diverse legal definitions
Gašparić Asea
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A theoretical introduction to the concept, nature and function of populism [PDF]

رهیافتهای سیاسی و بین المللی, 2020
In the last few decades, we have witnessed the emergence of various forms of populism, as well as different readings, narratives and analyzes of this phenomenon all over the world.
Alireza Samiee Esfahani
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Lowering the age of criminal responsibility: The greatest dilemma? [PDF]

Crimen (Beograd), 2023
Two mass murders that took place at the beginning of May 2023 disturbed and shocked the public in Serbia. The mass murder that took place in the Elementary School "Vladislav Ribnikar" in Belgrade, in which the perpetrator was a boy who was under the age ...
Ćopić Sanja
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Reform and Research: Re-connecting Prison and Society in the 21st Century

International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2015
IIn this contribution I briefly outline some of the historical and current trends in prison research and question how a prison researcher can work towards influencing policy and practice. I discuss the current role of ‘what works’ research and the way it
Peter Scharff Smith
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Victims and contemporary tendencies in crime control [PDF]

Temida, 2014
Victimological dimension of new criminality forms is a specific challenge for contemporary criminal law systems; new time brings new forms of criminality, new victims, but also new ways and opportunities for more efficient protection of victims.
Soković Snežana
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Populist Punitiveness in the Italian Populistic Yellow-Green Government

Partecipazione e Conflitto, 2020
In this article we present a general interpretation of the recent tendency of Italian political forces to promote laws in the criminal field aimed more at producing political consensus of an emotional kind than at addressing real legal and social needs ...
Stefano Anastasìa, Manuel Anselmi
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Populism, Law and Order and the Crimes of the 1%

International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2013
The article examines the evidence of endemic financial crime in the global financial crisis (GFC), the legal impunity surrounding these crimes and the popular revolt against these abuses in the financial, political and legal systems.
Russell Hogg
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Toward the critique of punitive populism

Problema: Anuario de Filosofía y Teoría del Derecho
This paper presents the main theses of what in recent years I have analyzed under the concept of punitive populism, seen as a complex phenomenon that conflates penal policy with politics, criminology and even moralism in social media.
Alejandro Nava-Tovar
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