Resisting Punitiveness in Europe? (eBook, PDF)

Welfare, Human Rights and Democracy
Redaktion: Snacken, Sonja; Dumortier, Els

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This volume provides an important and exciting contribution to the knowledge on punishment across Europe. Covering both quantitative and qualitative dimensions, this book focuses on mechanisms interacting with levels of punitiveness that seem to allow room for less punitive (political) choices, especially within a European context: social policies, human rights and a balanced approach to victim rights and public opinion in constitutional democracies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136656880
• Artikelnr.: 38273978

Autorenporträt

Sonja Snacken is Professor of Criminology, Penology and Sociology of Law at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium), where she now holds a 'Research Fellowship' (2006-2016). She is currently Research Fellow at the Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law and Justice at the New York University School of Law (2010-2011). Her research focuses on the place, choices and consequences of punishment in Belgium and Europe. She is member of the Editorial Board of Punishment and Society and Déviance et Société. She was president of the European Society of Criminology (2004-2005) and has been a member since 2001 (and President since 2006) of the Council for Penological Cooperation of the Council of Europe. Els Dumortier is Professor in Youth Criminology and Constitutional Criminal Law at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Criminology Department, Belgium. Her research focuses on questions concerning (the effectiveness of) children's rights in the domain of juvenile justice, both in contemporary times and in the past (20th century). She participates in several national and international scientific networks in the domain of juvenile justice (Dutch, English and French speaking), both contemporary focussed and historical.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Resisting Punitiveness in Europe? An Introduction 2. Political Economy,
Welfare and Punishment in Comparative Perspective 3. Explaining National
Differences in the Use of Imprisonment 4. The Scandinavian Path to Welfare
5. Penalisation and Social Policies 6. The Rise of the Penal State: What
can Human Rights Do About It? 7. Human Rights and Penalization in Central
and Eastern Europe: the Case of Hungary 8. Human Rights as the Good and the
Bad Conscience of Criminal Law 9. Victims and the Penal Process: Roles,
Expectations and Disappointments 10. Punitivity From a Victim's Perspective
11. Punitive Needs, Society and Public Opinion: An Explorative Study of
Ambivalent Attitudes to Punishment and Criminal Justice