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Deadline Populism and the Press in Venezuela

open access: yes, 2019
Since 2006, Venezuela has had the highest homicide rate in South America and one of the highest levels of gun violence in the world. Former president Hugo Chávez, who died in 2013, downplayed the extent of violent crime and instead emphasized ...
Samet, Robert
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The Punitive Laboratory of Neoliberalism: A Cross-national Examination

open access: yes, 2023
A large body of research has been produced to explain global punitive trends in recent decades. Neoliberalism, an economic philosophy expressed by market deregulation, privatization, and the retrenchment of social supports, has been offered as an ...
Fera, Beth A
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Populism and Criminal Justice Policy: An Australian Case Study of Non-Punitive Responses to Alcohol-Related Violence

open access: yes, 2016
The original motivation for this article was the atypical way that the government, police, media and wider community responded to the tragic death of Thomas Kelly in Kings Cross in July 2012.
Julia Quilter (19586863)
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War Against Drugs, Punitive Populism and Criminalization of Personal Dose; Colombia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
RESUMEN: En el marco de la cuestionada lucha internacional contra las drogas, el esfuerzo del gobierno de Alvaro Uribe Vélez logró derogar la política estatal de naturaleza libertaria que permitía la “dosis personal”, por medio de la aprobación de una ...
Londoño Berrío, Hernando León   +1 more
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¿Can we talk in Colombia about punitive populism?

open access: yes, 2012
This paper explores the possibility of using the concept of penal populism to catalog the relationship between the punitive attitudes of citizens and the harsher criminal policy in Colombia.
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Freedom vs. punitive populism: should Human Rights be respected in criminal proceedings?

open access: yesVia Inveniendi Et Iudicandi, 2017
Esta investigación muestra cómo la necesidad de disminuir los índices delincuenciales en el país ha venido justificando de manera soterrada la “relativización de los derechos humanos”. Para esto, se parte de la hipótesis de que el hacinamiento carcelario obedece a la adopción de medidas penales que buscan impresionar a la sociedad, pero que carecen de ...
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