Numerous scholars have described how the ‘war on drugs’ has played a central role in US penal change, especially its racialized impact. Yet there remain aspects of this ‘war’ that are under-explored in punishment and society scholarship. This article delineates five distinct modes by which the contemporary regulation of drugs in the USA speaks to penal change, and in so doing suggests that its ...

dara' rule changes in islamic penal code with the modern penology teachings approach keyvan heidar nejad [1] fatemeh ahadi [2] seyyed abulfazl mirjafar pour [3]   abstract:                        dara' is one of the rules that is derived from figh. the rule indicates that by proving doubt or hesitancy at the time of committing crime, the offence cannot be proved. in the former penal c...

In repeated normal-form (simultaneous-move) 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. By means of examples, we identify two types of settings in which a subgame-perfect outcome may be supported only by a profile with the property tha...

In recent years, the sexual abuse of minors and vulnerable adults in Catholic Church has received much attention. This is also true related changes to ecclesiastical legislation. Less attention, however, been paid other aspects reform. The revised penal law Code Canon Law, any case, demands closer study from point critical legal studies. It striking that while reform focused on improving protec...

was to consider the Mental Health Bill in 1959. This author thought that Pe?A had a conflict about the penal system and mistrusted their experts whom imagined were more concerned for the criminal than for his victims. He there!'' became interested and tried to examine the penal system and its principles in Brjta' today by his own values, judgment and common-sense. He felt there was a in communi...

The expansion of the US carceral state has been accompanied by the emergence of what we call the ‘shadow carceral state’. Operating beyond the confines of criminal law and justice institutions, the shadow carceral state expands penal power through institutional annexation and legal hybridity, including: (1) increased civil and administrative pathways to incarceration; (2) the creation of civil ...

In this essay, I consider how Loic Wacquant’s Punishing the Poor adds to the diverse and growing body of scholarship about contemporary penal change. I begin with an overview of Wacquant’s major arguments and elucidations, then I focus in on how this work fits specifically within theorizations about, and empirical examinations of, late modern punishment. In so doing, I describe the ways in whic...

Many juvenile offenders transported from Britain to Van Diemen’s Land in the 1830s spent timein the juvenile specific penal station, Point Puer. Here they were subjected to a reform ideology,also transported from the Mother Country, which provided the training and discipline to makethem into new colonial subjects. However, this reformatory programme was marred by the morepragmat...