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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 Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article provides one of the first broad reviews of global research on public opinion regarding the age of criminal responsibility (ACR) alongside findings from a small‐scale exploratory survey of adults in England and Wales. Reviewed studies show strong support for raising the ACR across regions like Scotland, Australia, Hong Kong and ...
Harriet Pierpoint, Kathy Hampson
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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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Caring for the elderly in the family or in the nation? Gender, women and migrant care labour in the Lega Nord [PDF]
, 2017 This article aims at gendering our understanding of populist radical right ideology, policy and activism in Italy. It does so by focusing on migrant care labour, which provides a strategic site for addressing the relationship between anti-immigration ...
Scrinzi, Francesca
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Privilege Versus Right: Vigilantism Against Israel's Palestinian Citizens
Sociology Lens, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article addresses three core questions: What is the social origin of vigilantism? How do vigilantes justify extra‐legal violence and intimidation? What are vigilantism's long‐term effects? The analysis focuses on a period in which Israel's Palestinian‐Arab citizens increased their access to legal rights, social mobility, spatial ...
Gershon Shafir, Beatrice Waterhouse
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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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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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Victimisation and poverty: About victims and victimised in Serbia [PDF]
Sociološki Pregled, 2014 This paper is a theoretical analysis of the scientific and public discourse of victimization on the example of Serbia. The analysis has two objectives: to review the justification for the use of the concept of victim defined in the traditional way ...
Ljubičić Milana
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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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