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Overuse of Pretrial Detention in tension with Judicial and Prison Reforms in the Dominican Republic

Latin American Law Review, 2020
In 2003, the Dominican Republic began to shift towards an adversarial judicial model and has implemented one of the region’s most ambitious reforms to its prison system, based on rehabilitative and human rights principles.
Jennifer Peirce
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The Tribulations of Polish Judges (2015–2023) or the Sally-Anne Test of Judicial Independence

Przegląd Prawniczy Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza
The issue of judicial independence in Poland has deservedly attracted attention in academic circles in recent years. In this article, I address this issue by examining how the stress test of constitutional democracy proceeded within the Polish judiciary.
Sebastian Kubas
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The inmate as a victim of the rise in the incarceration rate and the perception of insecurity in western society. A particular analysis of the Chilean case.

Revista Brasileira de Direito Processual Penal, 2019
Often, the discussion about the victim in the penal process recognizes only the crime victim and doesn’t take into consideration that the inmate, the person deprived of liberty, might also be a victim of the criminal justice system.
Silvio Cuneo
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Penal Populism and the Problem of Mass Incarceration: [PDF]

The Good Society, 2014
Abstract In this paper, Copson explores the question of what might be done in order to enable us to imagine responses beyond mass incarceration. She considers Albert Dzur's general calls for the creation of spaces for democratic deliberative participation and his particular reimagining of the jury as one such potential space.
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I minori stranieri non accompagnati fra tutela delle vulnerabilità e gestione emergenziale del fenomeno [PDF]

Democrazia e Diritti Sociali
This article proposes an analysis of d.l. 5 ottobre 2023, n. 133, which is one of the most recent legislative measures in the field of unaccompanied foreign minors.
Claudia Atzeni
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The Blueprint of Penal Populism

Champ pénal
A populist fever appears to be spreading through several Western democracies. Focusing more specifically on its inflection within the field of criminal justice, this article outlines the defining features of a populist penal approach. It explores how appeals to the popular will are mobilized and manipulated, how expert knowledge and criminological ...
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Politics of Anxiety, Politics of Hope: Penal Populism and Duterte's Rise to Power

Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 2016
Citizens who support populist leaders are often portrayed in negative terms. They are disparaged for their prejudice and naiveté, some even earning the label “basket of deplorables” from Hillary Clinton.
Nicole Curato
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Delincuencia sexual y populismo penal en Colombia

Urvio, 2014
Actualmente hay un uso recurrente del Derecho Penal como instrumento estatal para enfrentar conflictos sociales variados. Modificaciones legislativas son hechas sin consideración a su necesidad y eficacia y se busca satisfacer intereses particulares, no ...
Rafael Velandia Montes
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Sobre outorgas e penas: Capitalismo, trabalho e punitivismo à brasileira

Dilemas: Revista de Estudos de Conflito e Controle Social, 2018
Este artigo analisa, inicialmente, em que medida conhecidas teorizações críticas estrangeiras acerca do exercício massivo do poder punitivo – em suas dimensões formais e subterrâneas – revelam-se instrumentos úteis à compreensão da realidade brasileira ...
André Vaz
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Bordered penal populism: When populism and Scandinavian exceptionalism meet [PDF]

Punishment & Society, 2018
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 into government of the populist-right Progress Party.
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