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Penal Policy and Criminological Challenges in the New Millennium
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In this article, the relationship between criminology and penal policy is explored, drawing attention to recent developments in penal law and practice that have caused concern to criminologists and discu...Abstract:
This article explores the relationship between criminology and penal policy. It draws attention to recent developments in penal law and practice that have caused concern to criminologists and discu...read more
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The Cinderella Complex: punishment, society and community sanctions
TL;DR: This article explored the neglect of community sanctions (probation, parole etc.) in contemporary punishment and society scholarship, and sought to understand why this part of the penal field has not attracted significant attention from researchers, despite expansion and diversification in a variety of jurisdictions.
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Evidence-Based Youth Justice? Some Valuable Lessons from an Evaluation for the Youth Justice Board:
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the reasons behind government support for the evidence-based approach and consider the limitations of this concept in the criminal justice field and conclude that the Youth Justice Board for England and Wales (YJB) by-passed an evidence based approach and gave more priority to developing practice than to the needs of rigorous evaluation.
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Communicative sentencing : exploring the perceptions of young offenders in the community
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate young offenders' first-hand views of community punishment within the context of the extant literature on communicative theories of sentencing, and propose a new framework which will allow for greater offender participation.
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Crime, shame, and reintegration
TL;DR: The family model of the criminal process: reintegrative shaming as discussed by the authors is a theory of white-collar crime that is based on the theory of the family model and the social conditions conducive to reintegration.
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THE LIMITS OF THE SOVEREIGN STATE Strategies of Crime Control in Contemporary Society
TL;DR: A descriptive analysis of strategies of crime control in contemporary Britain and elsewhere can be found in this paper, where the authors argue that the normality of high crime rates and the limitations of criminal justice agencies have created a new predicament for governments.
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The Exclusive Society: Social Exclusion, Crime and Difference in Late Modernity
TL;DR: From Inclusive to Exclusive Society Crime and Discord in an Age of Late Modernity Cannibalism and Bulimia Essentialising the Other Demonisation and the Creation of Monstrosity The Criminology of Intolerance Zero Tolerance Policing and The American Prison Experiment as mentioned in this paper.
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The Culture of High Crime Societies
TL;DR: In this paper, a theory of cultural adaptation is developed to explain the emergence of new strategies of crime control in the UK and USA, arguing that the political and policy shifts of recent years have been conditioned by prior changes that have occurred at the level of social structures and cultural sensibilities.
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