A recent study (Van Gelder et al., 2011) scrutinized the effects of providing people with information about suspended sentences on their opinions of these sentences, and concluded that the impact is modest or even absent. Re-analyzing the original data, we demonstrate that this conclusion greatly underestimates the relevance of informational provision. Recognizing that information is framed dif...

MUTUA MULUNDI .............................................................. APPELLANT VERSUS REPUBLIC ..................................................................... RESPONDENT J U D G E M E N T This is an appeal against the conviction and sentence in Kangundo Criminal Case 720/01 where the appellant was charged with the offence of defilement of a girl under 14 years Contrary to Section ...

In this article, a description of the demographic, penal, and psychopathological characteristics of 54 men who are in prison because of having committed a serious offense of gender violence was carried out. Furthermore, a comparison of all the variables studied between the participants with homicide and those without homicide was done. The results showed the existence of irrational beliefs both...

Section 300/A/A of the Israel Penal Law, amended in 1995, deals with reduction of punishment for severe mental and/or intellectual disturbances insufficient to warrant a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity. The present version of the amendment allows the court total freedom in determining punishment, thereby creating a plethora of court decisions. In this article, we have attempted to prov...

This contribution offers a critical reflection on fisheries crime as described in the Spanish Penal Code. It sets out reasons why its treatment is considered ineffective, and administrative offences sanctions provided for Law 3/2001 Maritime Fisheries are more effective dissuasive. However, it also considers that legislative policy relying severity of effectiveness may be counterproductive. The...

Reform of the parole system has emerged as cause célèbre a resurgent law and order politics. Successive governments have seized upon symbolic power to demonstrate ‘toughness’ with respect violent sexual offending, express solidarity victims crime reaffirm populist credo that purportedly stands in opposition an unaccountable out touch penal elite. Published March 2022, Ministry Justice Root Bran...

Scholarship on contemporary US penality has paid little attention to practices opposing the punitive trend. This study explores clemency – official acts moderating punishment and its lasting consequences as an executive back-end mechanism of leniency. To explore how is discussed at a time increasingly penal policies, I conducted qualitative analysis 36 years’ worth presidential statements from ...

The decision to release is a defining feature of the carceral experience: at once necessary function dynamic penal system, and highly contested form symbolic communication where anxieties contradictions contemporary penality begin coalesce. In this paper I argue that institutions we rely upon make these determinations in fair, consistent efficient manner are under increasing strain. Drawing ins...

Abstract Australian children have few legal rights and in the context of youth justice, community safety tends to be prioritised over best interests wellbeing children. “Tough on crime” approaches justice law policy been influenced by penal populism, whilst voices practitioners who work with young people commit offences remain largely ignored. We interviewed 92 criminal settings a low socioecon...