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Penological developments in contemporary China: Populist punitiveness vs. penal professionalism
International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice, 2017 This article examines the penal development in China over the last six decades to understand the ways in which populist punitiveness functions in the Chinese political and social contexts. It argues that populist punitiveness in China is a ‘top-down’ process whereby manipulative political elites play on public anxieties and fears of crime and social ...
Enshen Li
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British Journal of Criminology, 2008 A significant body of literature has examined the role of public attitudes in shaping the contemporary politics of law and order, and suggested that a state of ‘populist punitiveness' now exists, whereby policy is made in response to harsh and punitive public attitudes towards crime issues.
Paul Almond
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Punishment and Society, 2005
Much of the survey data on public knowledge and attitudes to sentencing and punishment gathered over recent years have suggested that the public in western jurisdictions support harsher punishment and have diminishing confidence in the criminal courts.
Neil Hutton
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Much of the survey data on public knowledge and attitudes to sentencing and punishment gathered over recent years have suggested that the public in western jurisdictions support harsher punishment and have diminishing confidence in the criminal courts.
Neil Hutton
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Punishment, violence, and grassroots democracy in South Africa—The politics of populist punitiveness
Punishment and Society, 2016This article discusses the apparent contradictions, and consequences, of the state’s embracing of democratic ‘community’ based criminal justice initiatives, in tandem with long-term imprisonment, in the context of vigilantism in Khayelitsha, a black township on the outskirts of Cape Town.
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Resisting punitiveness in Europe?
Theoretical Criminology, 2010 Criminological literature of the last decade is rife with tales and analyses of ‘increased’ or ‘new’ punitiveness in western countries over the last 20 or 30 years.
Sonja Snacken
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Theoretical Criminology, 2005 There is a widespread claim in the criminological literature that the current period is characterized by a surge in punitiveness and that this 'punitive turn' is fuelled by a new populism.
Roger Matthews
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Race, Xenophobia, and Punitiveness Among the American Public [PDF]
Sociological Quarterly, 2018 We outline four connections between xenophobia and punitiveness toward criminals in a national sample of Americans. First, among self-identified whites xenophobia is more predictive of punitiveness than specific forms of racial animus. Second, xenophobia
Lemuel Day +2 more
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Religious perceptions of crime and implications for punitiveness
Punishment and Society, 2022Iman Said, Christopher Seto
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