Determinants of Penal Policies

Tonry, Michael

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“…On the one hand, we have official data that allow us to approach the evolution of imprisonment rates. It has repeatedly been pointed out that the number of incarcerated persons or the incarceration rate per 100,000 inhabitants is not the only indicator to measure levels of punitiveness (Brodeur 2007;Kommer 2004;Nelken 2005Nelken , 2010aNelken , 2010bPease 1994;Tonry 2007). But it must be recognized that it allows us to approach the crucial phenomenon of the degree of extension of the penal system (Beckett and Sasson 2001;Cavadino and Dignam 2006;Lacey 2008).…”

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A Postneoliberal Turn? Variants of the Recent Penal Policy in Argentina

Sozzo

2017

Int J for Crime, Justice & Social Democracy

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This paper analysed the connection between the emergence and consolidation of a postneoliberal political program and alliance -Kirchnerism -and penal policies in Argentina. Three key moments are identified in this recent period. After the experience of an intense punitive turn during the 1990s and early 2000s, Kirchnerist political alliances tried to deploy a progressive political discourse and agenda on penal issues. Nevertheless, this initially coincided with a strong wave of penal populism 'from below' that continued the precedent trend towards increasing punitiviness. Since 2005, and for a brief moment, this tendency stopped. However, after that and during the presidencies of Fernandez de Kirchner a more volatile and contradictory scenario was generated. The incarceration rate between 2002 and 2014 in Argentina grew substantially as did the rate of convictions. Meanwhile the percentage of suspended sentences as part of the total convictions and the percentage of custodial sanctions both fell. Especially in relation to incarceration, these levels of change are not as stark as those of the preceding decades. However, the trends persist. Therefore, the question of how to transcend the dynamics of the punitive turn remains a pending and urgent political subject. The article argues the importance of analysing why a punitive turn is interrupted and presents an explanation of it. KeywordsIncarceration rates; Argentina; Kirchnerism; penal politics; postneoliberalism.

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A Postneoliberal Turn? Variants of the Recent Penal Policy in Argentina

Sozzo

2017

Int J for Crime, Justice & Social Democracy

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“…66 Također, s obzirom na to da je riječ o kompanijama čije dionice fluktuiraju na tržištu, veća je vjerojatnost prikrivanja problema ili incidenta koji samom svojom pojavom u javnosti snižava vrijednost kompanije i slabi njezinu tržišnu poziciju. 67 63 No, s druge strane, kako problemi u zatvorskom sustavu povlače i odgovornost javnih činovnika, njihovo prikrivanje može jednako biti obilježje upravljanja u javnome sektoru. Od sredine devedesetih 20. stoljeća ugovori za privatne zatvore u Ujedinjenom Kraljevstvu ne uključuju samo pojedine funkcije poput menadžmenta, nego cijelu shemu "dizajna, izgradnje, upravljanja i financiranja" 68 , pa "nema sumnje da država sada djeluje u skladu s neoliberalnom agendom koja promovira miješanu ekonomiju pružanja sigurnosti i kontrole zločina".…”

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Transfer kaznene politike

Petković

2017

Zb. Prav. fak. Sveuč. Rij. (Online)

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UVODU radu se prikazuje povijesni razvoj kaznene politike Engleske i Walesa od osamdesetih godina 20. stoljeća naovamo, s posebnim naglaskom na maloljetničko pravosuđe i problemska žarišta nasilja mladih, huliganskog nasilja i privatizacije kaznenih institucija.1 Institucionalna žarišta rada opravdana su predmetnim * Dr. sc. Krešimir Petković, docent Fakulteta političkih znanosti Sveučilišta u Zagrebu; petkovic.kresimir@gmail.com 1 U radu se koristi širok pojam kaznene politike koji podrazumijeva niz aktera, institucija i diskursa koji su usmjereni na oblikovanje i primjenu kažnjavanja u nekom društvu.

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“…As the twenty-first century has witnessed prison populations in both the US and UK reaching record levels with little side of abatement and the emergence of ever-more punitive responses to crime (see Tonry, 2007), there has been growing concern regarding the dangers of 'penal populism' (Roberts et al, 2003: 5) and/or 'popular punitiveness' (Bottoms, 1995: 40;see Pratt 2007).…”

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“…Characterized as "politicians tapping into, and using for their own purposes, what they believe to be the public's generally punitive stance" (Bottoms, 1995: 40) towards crime and offenders as an electioneering tool by which to gain political advantage, this punitiveness is arguably reflected in such measures as California's infamous 'three strikes and you're out policy'; increased mandatory minimum sentencing; Anti-Social Behaviour Orders and the shift towards mass incarceration (see Garland, 2001;Tonry, 2007).…”

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Penal Populism and the Problem of Mass Incarceration:

Copson¹

2014

The Good Society

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In this paper, Copson explores the question of what might be done in order to enable us to imagine responses beyond mass incarceration. She considers Albert Dzur's general calls for the creation of spaces for democratic deliberative participation and his particular reimagining of the jury as one such potential space. Drawing connections between such calls and David Harvey's “spaces of hope,” Copson argues that whilst such remedies to reinvigorate criminal and penal policy-making as meaningful sites of civic engagement are an important element in challenging the tendency towards punitive penal responses, we cannot and should not detach questions of crime and justice from the more holistic examination of society if we are to avoid simply reifying and further legitimating existing penal responses. Finally, invoking the emerging “utopian method” identified by Levitas, Copson suggests a possible conceptual means to achieving this end.

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Determinants of Penal Policies

Cited by 142 publications

References 34 publications

A Postneoliberal Turn? Variants of the Recent Penal Policy in Argentina

A Postneoliberal Turn? Variants of the Recent Penal Policy in Argentina

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