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Governmentality, populism criminal and punitive practices in Argentina

open access: yesPerspectivas 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
doaj   +1 more source

Parole, populism and penal policy [PDF]

open access: yesAlternative 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.
openaire   +1 more source

Victimisation and poverty: About victims and victimised in Serbia [PDF]

open access: yesSociološki 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
doaj   +1 more source

Exploring the Disciplinary State: The Pace and Pattern of ‘Getting Tough’ in Denmark, Germany and the United Kingdom Since 1990

open access: yesSocial Policy &Administration, Volume 60, Issue 3, Page 369-379, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Welfare states in rich democracies have returned to a more ‘disciplinary’ agenda in recent decades. This has occurred roughly simultaneously with the so‐called ‘punitive turn’ in criminal justice. We argue that it makes sense to analyse the two movements together, as manifestations of the novel concept of the ‘disciplinary state’. Empirically,
Peter Starke, Georg Wenzelburger
wiley   +1 more source

Racialized Labour in the Colonial Food Regime: The Whitening of England's Farmworkers

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, Volume 26, Issue 2, April 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Governing by tweet under a state of exception: an interrupt time-series and text-as-data study of president Bukele’s communication on X (2019–2025)

open access: yesFrontiers in Political Science
This article investigates how El Salvador’s state of exception—an emergency regime declared in March 2022 that temporarily suspended selected constitutional guarantees in response to a gang-related security crisis—reshaped presidential communication and ...
Andrés Naranjo-Vinueza   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Blueprint of Penal Populism

open access: yesChamp 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 ...
openaire   +1 more source

Front‐Footed Defense: Leveraging Early Counsel Intervention for Expedited Justice

open access: yesLaw &Policy, Volume 48, Issue 2, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Contemporary criminal justice systems have increasingly prioritized efficiency as a key guiding principle in their institutional processes. This research examines the role of defense counsel to analyze whether and how lawyers strategically adapt their advocacy methods as they balance the demands of procedural efficiency with their professional
Chengchen He, Enshen Li
wiley   +1 more source

Imagining Justice Transformation in Aotearoa: Possibilities and Pitfalls

open access: yesKōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online, Volume 21, Issue 1, March 2026.
It is well‐noted that for as long as there have been prisons, there has been continued resistance to their use and calls for alternatives. Debates amongst advocates for change in the justice system fixate on whether prison reform or abolition is the answer. This article engages with narratives from 16 semi‐structured interviews with people who advocate
Grace Gordon
wiley   +1 more source

The Bureaucracy versus Post‐Bureaucracy Paradox in Public Administration: A Historical Perspective on the Selection and Training of Public Managers

open access: yesPublic Administration, Volume 104, Issue 1, Page 33-54, March 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

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