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Resisting Punitiveness in Europe? - Welfare, Human Rights and Democracy (Paperback)
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Resisting Punitiveness in Europe? - Welfare, Human Rights and Democracy (Paperback)
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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 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. The book is split into three sections:
Punishment and Welfare. Chapters look into possible lessons to be
learned from characteristics and developments in Scandinavian and
some Continental European countries. Punishment and Human
Rights.Contributions analyze how human rights in Europe can and do
act as a shield against -- but sometimes also as a possible motor
for -- criminalization and penalization. Punishment and Democracy.
The increased political attention to victims' rights and interests
and to public opinion surveys in European democracies is discussed
as a possible risk for enhanced levels of punitiveness in penal
policies and evaluated against the background of research evidence
about the wishes and expectations of victims of crime and the
ambivalence and 'polycentric consistency' of public opinion
formations about crime and punishments. This book will be a
valuable addition to the literature in this field and will be of
interest to students, scholars and policy officials across Europe
and elsewhere.
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