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Penal Populism and the Public Thermostat: Crime, Public Punitiveness, and Public Policy [PDF]
Governance, 2016 This article makes the case that feedback processes in democratic politics—between crime rates, public opinion, and public policy—can account for the growth of penal populism in Britain. It argues that the public recognize and respond to rising (and falling) levels of crime, and that in turn public support for being tough on crime is translated into ...
Farrall, Stephen +3 more
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The Roots of “Penal Populism”: the Role of Media and Politics
Kriminologijos studijos, 2017 Penal populism is often labeled as a process whereby politicians devise punitive penal policies, which are adjudged to be “popular” within the general public, and are designed to mobilize votes rather than improve the crime and justice situation.
MARGARITA DOBRYNINA
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Explanations for the Punitive Turn of Crime Policy in Bolivia, 2006-2016
International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2018 In the last decade, Bolivia, as with most countries in the region, has seen an unprecedented increase of its prison population. This is often explained as the consequence of a punitive populism sweeping Latin America.
Jorg Stippel, Juan E Serrano Moreno
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Populism, Law and Order and the Crimes of the 1%
International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2013 The article examines the evidence of endemic financial crime in the global financial crisis (GFC), the legal impunity surrounding these crimes and the popular revolt against these abuses in the financial, political and legal systems.
Russell Hogg
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The Cost of Security: Torture and Punitive Populism in El Salvador's Anti-Gang Strategy
The purpose of this thesis is to provide an assessment to the complex interplay between punitive security measures used to contrast gang violence in El Salvador post-war period. In particular, this document targets issues of torture, human rights violations and organized crime.
LUZURIAGA, MATEO SEBASTIAN
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Nuevo Foro Penal, 2013 In order to justify an expansionist criminal policy, it is usual to appeal to the fact that this one responds to the popular claim, a social demand for security.
Juan Pablo Uribe Barrera
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¿Puede hablarse en Colombia de populismo punitivo?
Nuevo Foro Penal, 2013 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.
Juan Pablo Uribe Barrera
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Neoliberalism and Control Strategies: the Urban Security Policies in Italy
Partecipazione e Conflitto, 2016 From the early 1990s, In Italy discourses and practices referring to urban security and preven-tion have increased. The purpose of this article is to highlight the specific characteristics of the Italian ap-proach to urban security.
Giuseppe Ricotta
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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2023 Physical and other types of punishment remain common in Bangladesh, despite overwhelming evidence of their harm and worldwide efforts to decrease their use. One of the strategic priorities of Save the Children in Bangladesh’s Child Protection Program is to protect children from physical and humiliating punishment in homes, schools, and other settings ...
Christine A. Ateah +3 more
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Public Security and discourses of control in Chile
Revista Estudios de Políticas Públicas, 2017 This article analyses the genesis and development of citizen security policies and the construction of imaginaries on crime in Chile during the rst three democratic Governments (1990-2006). Through a qualitative discourse analysis methodology, based on a
Pablo Isla
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