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Problematising ‘Vulnerability’ in Women's Prisons

The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT ‘Vulnerability’ is a commonly used but little understood term in the field of social policy and beyond. The refocusing of our criminal justice system around notions of ‘vulnerability’ has had wide‐reaching consequences which often escape both academic and political attention.
Sarah Waite, Danica Darley
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Undoing the “Cemetery of the Living”: Performing Change, Embodying Resistance through Prison Theater in Nicaragua

Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, 2019
This paper explores the gendered and spatialized dynamics that underpin prisoners’ and official discourses of “change” (cambio de actitud) in Nicaragua as these were manifested at two prison facilities during a lengthy period of prison theater training ...
Julienne Weegels
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Una apuesta analítica del funcionamiento del dispositivo psi pericial en el campo penal Uma aposta analitica do funcionamento do dispositivo psi pericial inserido no campo penal An analysis of the psy expert assemblage in the penal field

Psicologia & Sociedade, 2010
La aproximación al dispositivo psi pericial inserto en el campo penal aquí efectuada, traza un itinerario de análisis que aborda el funcionamiento de dicho dispositivo, poniendo especial énfasis en las imbricadas relaciones entre los saberes jurídicos y ...
Laura López Gallego
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The Long Shadow of ‘Populist Punitiveness’—Why Public Opinion May Not Preclude Increasing the Age of Criminal Responsibility in England and Wales

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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Before It Was ‘New’: A Neglected History of Lived Experience–Led Criminal Justice

The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A growing range of criminal justice initiatives are being shaped and delivered by people with lived experience, including peer mentoring, prisoner councils and policy advocacy roles. While often seen as recent innovations, we reveal a deeper, largely unacknowledged history dating back to at least the 19th century.
Gillian Buck, Matthew Rive, Annabelle Rogers   +2 more
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The philosophy of penal law as a metafenomenal basis of the penal system

Institute Bulletin: Crime, Punishment, Correction, 2019
The penal system cannot be characterized as the evidence that does not require explanations and justifications. Like any other open system it is influenced by many external and internal factors. The degree and nature of this influence cannot always be known and explained by means of analytics of a theoretical level.
V. E. Lapshin, V. V. Shakhanov
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We Need to Talk About Court Custody

The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Court custody is an overlooked but significant site of incarceration that holds tens of thousands of individuals each year in England and Wales. Providing one of the first scholarly investigations of court custody, we find that insurmountable bureaucratic barriers make it impossible to conduct interview‐based empirical research within court ...
Tom Kemp, Philippa Tomczak
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Making Good to Making Space: Lived Experience and the Convict Criminology Tradition

The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Making Good’s 25th anniversary offers an opportunity to revisit one of criminology's most consequential texts through the lens of lived experience scholarship and convict criminology. Few works have done more to transform the epistemic landscape.
Ed Schreeche‐Powell
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Should We Change the Criminal Age of Majority in England and Wales? Consideration of Young Adults Within the Youth Justice and Criminal Justice System

The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Current legislation and safeguarding principles are bound by narrow and inflexible constructions of childhood and adulthood. The criminal age of responsibility in England and Wales has been criticised for the responsibilisation of children from age 10 years.
Jayne Price
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Exploring Prison Safety: Insights From Two Decades of HM Inspectorate of Prisons Surveys in England and Wales

The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article presents an analysis of surveys conducted by HM Inspectorate of Prisons for England and Wales of 87,449 adult male prisoners between the years 2000 and 2020. It describes the survey methodology and focuses on the 13,025 people who reported feeling unsafe.
Nicholas Hardwick, Kim Reising, Rosie Meek   +2 more
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