Living in a forensic hospital for the last 38 years, Josefa da Silva is the longest female inhabitant surviving the penal and psychiatric regime in Brazil. This paper analyses dossier, judicial proceedings, interviews and photographs about her. The psychiatric report is the key component of the medical and penal doubling of criminal insanity. Twelve psychiatric reports illustrate three time fra...

This article addresses two basic questions. First, it examines whether incarceration has a lasting impact on health functioning. Second, because blacks are more likely than whites to be exposed to the negative effects of the penal systemFincluding fractured social bonds, reduced labor market prospects, and high levels of infectious diseaseFit considers whether the penal system contributes to ra...

In repeated normal-form games, simple penal codes (Abreu 1986, 1988) permit an elegant characterization of the set of subgame-perfect outcomes. We show that the logic of simple penal codes fails in repeated extensive-form games. We provide two examples illustrating that a subgame-perfect outcome may be supported only by a profile with the property that the continuation play after a deviation is...

Over the past several decades, American penal exceptionalism—the tendency for U.S. policies and practices to proudly diverge from those of other Western countries—has severely limited development comparative criminal justice research a perspective. However, in recent years, growing consensus that America’s are too expensive, ineffective, excessively punitive, often inhumane has laid ground new ...

“There is, in fact, hardly an argument that can be advanced for the stern suppression of crime by penal methods that does not apply equally to the suppression of disease. . . . “ Medical service in the penal and correctional institutions throughout the United States has been reported at various times to be below the level of medical care for the general population. In 1939 McCartney2 noted that...

ISSN 1746-6938 PAPER Introduction We present here a brief outline of findings from our research, which explores the relationship between welfare expenditure and levels of punishment. We begin by examining research on welfare spending and imprisonment rates across US states and replicate this work using data from 18 countries, including the United Kingdom. The results show that welfare provision...

Penal mediation has been a longtime process of criminal settlement used in the Ngaju Dayak indigenous people Kalimantan. They Belom Bahadat philosophy as form reform field procedural law stemmed from politics which makes customary part national law. This article is aimed to analyze concepts penal Indonesia and international perspectives; with philosophy-based community its future use qualitativ...

The British who ruled Mandate Palestine established a prison visiting system that enabled inspection and oversight of carceral conditions by officials lay representatives. In often contradictory variegated ways, both the their subjects used this as political tool. For British, participation in was consistent with colonial pursuits such advancing penal reform, attempting to “civilize” local popu...