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Reform and Research: Re-connecting Prison and Society in the 21st Century

International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2015
IIn this contribution I briefly outline some of the historical and current trends in prison research and question how a prison researcher can work towards influencing policy and practice. I discuss the current role of ‘what works’ research and the way it
Peter Scharff Smith
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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
wiley   +1 more source

Comparative Legal Analysis of President McKinley’s Assassination: Perspectives from the U.S. Legal System and Imami Jurisprudence [PDF]

Faṣlnāmah-i Pizhūhish-i Huqūq-i Kiyfarī
Introduction and Problem Statement The assassination of William McKinley, the 25th President of the United States in 1901, represents one of the most complex intersections of politics, medicine, and law in the history of criminal proceedings.
Abbas Sheikholeslami, Roghayeh Masteri Farahani   +1 more
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Comparing the Implications of Strategies for Governing the COVID‐19 Pandemic for the Political Robustness of Five European Political Regimes

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, Peter Triantafillou, Tiziana Caponio, György Hajnal, Tiina Randma‐Liiv, David Spacek   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Penal populism: Origin, development and future

POLITEA
During the last few decades, penal populism has been one of the continuously present criminal political trends globally. Propositions of penal populism could be briefly reduced to stricter punishment for offenders, allegedly in accordance with the ...
Milica Kovačević, Saša Atanasov
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A Thin Blue Democratic Line? Organization, Interest, and Ethical Compatibility as Foundations of External Accountability Credibility

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the context of rising authoritarian and populist political movements, scholars have increasingly identified external agency as a bulwark for liberal values. However, its capacity to protect such values may be contingent upon its acceptance within the profession—specifically, upon attitudes we conceptualize as “accountability credibility ...
Sebastian Roché, Jacques de Maillard, Julien Noble   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Public opinion on freedom of religion (and its limitations) in penitentiary establishments in the light of international regulations

Approaching Religion, 2022
The issue of religious freedom while serving a sentence of imprisonment often occupies scientists from around the world. Basically, they agree that a prisoner, regardless of the act for which he or she has been convicted, has the right to religious ...
Olga Sitarz, Anna Jaworska-Wieloch, Jakub Hanc   +2 more
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Animal Segregation: The Biopolitics of Concentrated Pig Farming

Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the possibility to think through the concept of animal segregation to understand the more‐than‐human geographies of livestock animals. By redirecting the analytical tools for studying the spatial separation of humans to the segregation of animals, this paper contributes to understanding the geographical processes of ...
Willem Rogier Boterman
wiley   +1 more source

Intimate Partner Violence, Public Opinion, and Legal Changes in Bulgaria: Dynamic Relationship and Unexpected Consequences

Societies
Violence against women and intimate partner violence in particular are recognized as significant social issues. This article explores the dynamic interplay between intimate partner violence, public opinion, and legislative changes in Bulgaria.
Georgi Petrunov
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Conflict Between Penal Populism and Decriminalization in Iran’s Criminal Justice System

Legal Studies in Digital Age
The policy of decriminalization has been embraced within the Iranian criminal justice system, and it is assumed that under such circumstances, this policy should be uniformly reflected across criminal laws.
Mohammad Safarpour Dobakhshari, Mehdi Haghighatjoo, Ahmad Pourebrahim   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source