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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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Latin American Research Review, 2020 This essay reviews the following works: Illegal Drugs, Drug Trafficking and Violence in Latin America. By Marcelo Bergman. Buenos Aires: Springer International, 2018. Pp. v + 170. $89.95 hardcover. ISBN: 9783319731520.
Jenny Pearce
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Late modern ambiguity and gothic narratives of justice [PDF]
, 2015 This paper examines how representations of criminal justice today are often framed by and narrated through a Gothic Imagination. Often this trend is considered a cultural support for Punitive Populism and demand for vindictive sanctions especially ...
Sothcott, Keir
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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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Good governance, political experiences, and public support for mandatory sentencing: Evidence from a progressive US state [PDF]
, 2017 A shift in public mood and declining incarceration rates in the US signal a potential change in the politics of punishment. This research considers whether the public continues to support mandatory sentencing.
Merritt, Cullen C. +2 more
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PLOS ONE, 2022 Background There is little research on how financial incentives and penalties impact national cesarean section rates. In January 2018, Georgia introduced a national cesarean section reduction policy, which imposes a financial penalty on hospitals that do not meet their reduction targets. The aim of this study was to assess the impact of this policy on
Ingvild Hersoug Nedberg +5 more
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Nuevo Foro Penal, 2013 The ideology of security and that of the punitive populism have prevented the coming into effect of the juvenile criminal law in Spain. The proposal of restrictive regulation included in the fundamental law that regulates the criminal ...
María A. Trapero Barreales
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Revista Brasileira de Direito Processual Penal, 2019 Often, the discussion about the victim in the penal process recognizes only the crime victim and doesn’t take into consideration that the inmate, the person deprived of liberty, might also be a victim of the criminal justice system.
Silvio Cuneo
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Punitive laws, key population size estimates, and Global AIDS Response Progress Reports: an ecological study of 154 countries [PDF]
Journal of the International AIDS Society, 2017 AbstractIntroduction: UN global plans on HIV/AIDS have committed to reducing the number of countries with punitive laws criminalizing key populations. This study explores whether punitive laws are associated with countries’ performance on targets set in the global plans.Methods: The study used chi‐square tests of independence to explore associations ...
Davis, Sara LM +3 more
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Nuevo Foro Penal, 2019 In Colombia, around sixteen draft legislative act have been submitted to modify article 34 of the Constitution, thus eliminating the prohibition of life sentences; the most recent has been the project of Legislative Act 001 of 2019, whose content ...
Emiro Cáceres-González
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