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Bordered penal populism: When populism and Scandinavian exceptionalism meet

open access: yesPunishment and Society, 2019
Penality in Scandinavia has been seen as somewhat of an outlier, a redoubt against the punitive turn witnessed in other parts of Western Europe and the United States. This article examines contemporary discourses of penality in Norway following the entry
John James Rea Todd-Kvam
exaly   +3 more sources

Two Decades of Penal Populism – The Case of Hungary [PDF]

open access: yesReview of Central and Eastern European Law, 2022
Hungary Post-2010 has been ruled by Viktor Orbán and his right-wing Fidesz party and is generally regarded as a typical case of populist governance. Reforming the Penal Code was one of the first major policy changes initiated by Fidesz shortly after ...
Zsolt Boda   +3 more
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

Governing against the tide: Populism, power and the party conference [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
In this article we argue that a tendency to treat populism as a ubiquitous, mechanistic characteristic of contemporary penality has impeded systematic theoretical discussion of how populist ideologies find contingent expression within national penal ...
Farrall, Stephen   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Sentencing and penal practices : Is Scotland losing its distinctiveness? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This chapter discusses sentencing and penal practices in ...
Tata, Cyrus
core   +3 more sources

The COVID-19 Crisis in Romania: A Hypothesis around Penal Populism and Legal Culture

open access: yesActa 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
doaj   +1 more source

Adventures in populist discourse: Could a solution to penal populism in New Zealand be hiding in plain sight?

open access: yesArchives of Criminology, 2023
Contemporary discussions on the role of populism in criminal justice reform have centred around its potential for more punitive outcomes i.e., longer sentences, less hospitable prison conditions and a lack of meaningful support for integration back into ...
Luke D. Oldfield, Alice Mills
semanticscholar   +1 more source

On (Measuring) Recidivism, Penal Populism and the Future of Recidivism Research

open access: yesGodišnjak Akademije pravnih znanosti Hrvatske, 2023
It is common criminological knowledge that recidivism – relapse into criminal behaviour – is a major predictor of future criminal behaviour, one could say a ‘hard-core’ criminogenic factor, esp. when displayed at a young age.
Anna-Maria Getoš Kalac, Lea Feuerbach
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Populism or the European condition? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
Ten years after the movements of the squares we are reminded of how the popular surge of activism shook the foundations of European politics. The ensuing appearance of new political parties—envisioned as carrying the torch of popular participation—has ...
Eklundh, Emmy, Tavares Furtado, Henrique
core   +1 more source

International Legal Principles, Penal Populism and Criminalisation of ‘Unwanted Migration’

open access: yesInternational Community Law Review, 2022
The criminalisation of migration is one of the most explicit ways in which law generates, sustains, and even legitimizes hostility towards “unwanted migrants”.
Marta Minetti
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Prison sentence in the 21st century [PDF]

open access: yesCrimen (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
doaj   +1 more source

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