Victim compensation: a child of penal welfarism or carceral policies

Determinants of Penal Policies

Welfarism vs. extra-welfarism.

'Extra-welfarism' has received some attention in health economics, yet there is little consensus on what distinguishes it from more conventional 'welfarist economics'. In this paper, we seek to identify the characteristics of each in order to make a systematic comparison of the ways in which they evaluate alternative social states. The focus, though this is not intended to be exclusive, is on h...

Multi_profile welfarism: a generalization

This paper characterizes welfarist social evaluation in a multi-profile setting where, in addition to multiple utility profiles, there may be more than one profile of nonwelfare information. We prove a new version of the welfarism theorem in this alternative framework, and we demonstrate that adding a plausible and weak anonymity property to the welfarism axioms generates welfarist social-evalu...

Helping a Victim or Helping the Victim: Altruism and Identifiability

Although it has been claimed that people care more about identifiable than statistical victims, demonstrating this “identifiable victim effect” has proven difficult because identification usually provides information about a victim, and people may respond to the information rather than to identification per se. We show that a very weak form of identifiability—determining the victim without prov...

characteristics of penal populist policies: a comparative study

penal populism researches have provided valuable data about characteristics of penal populist policies. generally, penal populist policies are tough, popular, symbolic, emotional and without scientific bases. penal populist reactions appear in the light of popular moves and emotional environment. these polices attempt to control criminal phenomena by penal mechanisms in a shortest possible time...