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1 online resource (292 pages) |
| Contents |
Front Cover; Resisting Punitiveness in Europe?; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Notes on the contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; 1. Resisting punitiveness in Europe? An introduction: Sonja Snacken and Els Dumortier; Part 1: Punishment and Welfare -- From Correlations to Interactions?; 2. Political economy, welfare and punishment in comparative perspective: David Downes; 3. Explaining national differences in the use of imprisonment: Tapio Lappi-Seppälä; 4. The Scandinavian path to welfare: Stein Kuhnle |
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5. Penalization and social policies: Philippe Mary and Jacky NagelsPart 2: Punishment and Human Rights -- Shield or Sword?; 6. The rise of the penal state: what can human rights do about it?: Els Dumortier, Serge Gutwirth, Sonja Snacken and Paul De Hert; 7. Human rights and penalization in Central and Eastern Europe: the case of Hungary: Miklós Lévay; 8. Human rights as the good and the bad conscience of criminal law: Françoise Tulkens; Part 3: Punishment and Democracy -- Which Role for Victims and Public Opinion? |
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9. Victims and the penal process: roles, expectations and disappointments: Noëlle Languin and Christian-Nils Robert with Milena Abbiati and Mina Rauschenbach10. Victims and the criminal justice system: threat or promise?: Dan Kaminski; 11. Punitivity from a victim's perspective: Ivo Aertsen; 12. Punitive needs, society and public opinion: an explorative study of ambivalent attitudes to punishment and criminal justice: Kristof Verfaillie; 13. Conclusion: why and how to resist punitiveness in Europe: Sonja Snacken; Index |
| Summary |
This volume provides an important and exciting contribution to the knowledge on punishment across Europe. Over the past decade, punitiveness has been studied through analyses of 'increased' or 'new' forms of punishment in western countries. Comparative studies on the other hand have illustrated important differences in levels of punitiveness between these countries and have tried to explain these differences by looking at risk and protective factors. Covering both quantitative and qualitative dimensions, this book focuses on mechanisms interacting with levels of punitiveness that seem to allow |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Dumortier, Els
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| ISBN |
9780203806654 |
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0203806654 |
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