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Parole, populism and penal policy [PDF]
Alternative Law Journal, 2017 Parole plays a significant part in the Australian criminal justice system. In March 2017, there were over 14,000 people on parole across Australia and, with prison numbers now well over 40,000, this and the number of those eligible for parole are likely to increase.
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Institutional mechanisms for incorporating the public in the development of sentencing policy [PDF]
, 2008 The development of sentencing policy has become problematic over the last thirty years or so in most western democracies. There are a number of different but related aspects to this.
Hutton, Neil
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The contested and contingent outcomes of Thatcherism in the UK [PDF]
, 2014 The death of Margaret Thatcher in April 2013 sparked a range of discussions and debates about the significance of her period in office and the political project to which she gave her name: Thatcherism.
Blair T +43 more
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Racialized Labour in the Colonial Food Regime: The Whitening of England's Farmworkers
Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The crystallization of a colonial food regime in the 1870s centred around Britain is key to historical accounts of agrarian political economy. Yet such accounts have neglected the role of the agrarian proletariat in shaping this regime from below and its basis in racialized hierarchy.
Ben Richardson
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Do Intoxicated Offenders Deserve Harsher Sentences? Questioning Veritas in Vino
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Criminal courts increasingly treat intoxication as an aggravating rather than a mitigating factor in sentencing. This shift, seen in Australian law and other jurisdictions, raises the prospect of unjust outcomes. We examine this trend through the lens of desert‐based justifications for punishment, setting aside questions of deterrence and ...
Mary Jean Walker, Daniel B. Cohen
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There’s More That Binds Us Together Than Separates Us : Exploring the Role of Prison-University Partnerships in Promoting Democratic Dialogue, Transformative Learning Opportunities and Social Citizenship [PDF]
, 2019 In this paper we argue that education – particularly higher education (HE) - has the potential to offer socially, economically and culturally transformative learning opportunities–cornerstones of social citizenship. Yet, for prisoners, the opportunity to
Hamilton, Paul, Dr. +1 more
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Public Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In the historical trajectory of public administration (PA), bureaucratic and post‐bureaucratic models have competed and coexisted in unstable relations. Recent studies have put forward the idea that those models constitute two poles of the paradox.
Marta Ingaggiati +3 more
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Governmentality, populism criminal and punitive practices in Argentina
Perspectivas Metodológicas, 2020 This article addresses the characteristics assumed by current punitivism, particularly in Argentina, and the implementation of measures, strategies and political discourses of the new neoliberal penalty from the perspective of the concept of ...
Florencia Beltrame
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Some reflections on the legitimacy of international trial justice [PDF]
, 2007 This paper addresses a number of interrelated conceptual difficulties that impact adversely on the ability of international criminal trials to deliver outcomes perceived as legitimate by victims and communities in post-conflict states.
Henham, R
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Public Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How do the strategies that governments employ when they encounter crisis‐induced turbulence affect the robustness of the political regime in which they operate? Comparative studies of the connection between government strategies and political regime robustness under different cultural and institutional conditions are few and far between.
Eva Sørensen +5 more
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