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Criminologies of catastrophe? Understanding criminal justice on the edge of the new millennium
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The closing years of the 20th century saw the circulation of many theories proposing that criminal justice and penality are undergoing radical transformation as mentioned in this paper, and the current status of these theories can be traced back to this period.Abstract:
The closing years of the 20th century saw the circulation of many theories proposing that criminal justice and penality are undergoing radical transformation. The paper reviews the current status o...read more
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Scandinavian Exceptionalism in an Era of Penal Excess: Part II: Does Scandinavian Exceptionalism Have a Future?
TL;DR: The authors argued that Finland, Norway and Sweden have all experienced, to a degree, declines in earlier levels of social solidarity, security and homogeneity, jeopardizing the future of their low levels of imprisonment and humane prison conditions.
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The globalization of crime control—the case of youth and juvenile justice: Neo-liberalism, policy convergence and international conventions
TL;DR: The authors assesses the extent to which a combination of neo-liberal assaults on the social logics of the welfare state and public provision, widespread experimentation with restorative justice and the prospect of rehabilitation through mediation and widely ratified international directives, epitomized by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, have now made it possible to talk of a global juvenile/youth justice.
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Governing young people: Coherence and contradiction in contemporary youth justice:
TL;DR: This article explored the burgeoning literature on modes and layers of governance and applied it to the complex of contemporary youth justice reform and found that any coherence within contemporary youth criminal justice relies on continual negotiations between opposing, yet overlapping, discursive practices.
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Late-modern rehabilitation The evolution of a penal strategy
TL;DR: In a number of recent analyses, rehabilitation has been portrayed as a casualty of processes of penal transformation, coming to be frequently characterized as 'dead' or 'irrelevant' as discussed by the authors.
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Nordic Exceptionalism Revisited: Explaining the Paradox of a Janus-Faced Penal Regime
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TL;DR: The authors examines the split in the foundation of the Swedish welfare state: it simultaneously promotes individual well-being in the social sphere but enables intrusive deprivations of liberty and in some cases, violates the principles of human rights.
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The New Penology : Notes on the emerging strategy of corrections and its implications
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that an important new language of penology is emerging, which shifts focus away from the traditional concerns of the criminal law and criminology, which have focused on the individual, and redirects it to actuarial consideration of aggregates.
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THE LIMITS OF THE SOVEREIGN STATE Strategies of Crime Control in Contemporary Society
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The death of the social? Re-figuring the territory of government
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