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- Barker, Vanessa
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The Politics of Punishment : Building a State Governance Theory of American Imprisonment Variation
- 2006
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Ingår i: Punishment & Society. - : SAGE Publications. - 1462-4745 .- 1741-3095. ; 8:1, s. 5-32
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article asks why some American states are more likely to rely on imprisonment in response to crime than others. Employing comparative historical methodology it brings new kinds of data to address contested questions in the field. In three case studies, it examines archival material, including citizens' letters to political leaders, transcripts from townhall meetings, internal government reports, public testimony; and it uses extensive secondary sources, including statistical data and political histories to tease out complex causal processes of crime control policy formation and its impact on imprisonment patterns. Analyzing evidence both temporarily and spatially, the article introduces a new account of American imprisonment variation based on the democratic process itself.
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- Demker, Marie, et al.
(författare)
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Fear and punishment in Sweden
- 2008
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Ingår i: Punishment & Society. - : SAGE Publications. - 1462-4745 .- 1741-3095. ; 10:3, s. 319-332
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Sweden is often portrayed as a hold out from ` penal populism', with a comparatively non- punitive population that prefers preventive and non- custodial sanctions to imprisonment. But while the Swedish public is still less punitive than many others, there is evidence that it has become more punitive, and less content with Swedish penal practice, over time. Trying to add to the understanding of the causes of toughening penal attitudes, we proceed to investigate the importance of media consumption for Swedish penal attitudes. We find a correlation between tabloid consumption and punitiveness. We end by a speculation that locates this finding in the wider context of an individualized, victim- centred discourse of crime.
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- Demker, Marie, 1960, et al.
(författare)
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Fear and Punishment in Sweden: Exploring Penal Attitudes
- 2008
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Ingår i: Punishment & Society. - : SAGE Publications. - 1462-4745 .- 1741-3095. ; vol 10,:no 3
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Sweden is often portrayed as a hold out from `penal populism', with a comparatively non-punitive population that prefers preventive and non-custodial sanctions to imprisonment. But while the Swedish public is still less punitive than many others, there is evidence that it has become more punitive, and less content with Swedish penal practice, over time. Trying to add to the understanding of the causes of toughening penal attitudes, we proceed to investigate the importance of media consumption for Swedish penal attitudes. We find a correlation between tabloid consumption and punitiveness. We end by a speculation that locates this finding in the wider context of an individualized, victim-centred discourse of crime.
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