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Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Crime in Switzerland in 2020: A First Assessment
This chapter discusses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on crime rates in Switzerland in 2020. It analyses the development of the pandemic in the...
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Rehabilitation and Beyond in Settler Colonial Australia: Current and Future Directions in Policy and Practice
This Chapter provides an analysis of the mechanisms of rehabilitation and their policy and political context in New South Wales (NSW)—the Australian...
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In Search of Organizational Crime in the U.S.: the FCPA Court Records
Due to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), anti-corruption enforcement has gained importance nationally and internationally—especially in...
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Rehabilitative Aims and Values in Finnish (and Nordic) Criminal Justice
The first part of the chapter discusses the role of rehabilitation in Nordic penal thinking over the last 50 years, and the latter part takes a...
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Juvenile Community Corrections in China: the Quest for a Restorative Approach
Community-based treatment has long been a major component of the criminal justice system in most Western jurisdictions; however, this is not the case...
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Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Offending
International studies have consistently reported disproportionately higher rates of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) among youth and...
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History and Transformations of the Model of Rehabilitation in the Criminal Justice System in Chile
In addressing the development of the rehabilitative ideal in the Chilean adult penal system over the last two decades, this chapter pays special...
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Rehabilitation of Offenders in the Scottish Criminal Justice System
This chapter provides an overview of Scotland’s Criminal Justice System (CJS) in context, identifying some key differences between Scotland’s CJS and...
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Prospect
This introduction explains how the idea of the book developed and elaborates the claim that the book is a counter-narrative to prevailing populist...
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Prisons, Managerialism and Privatisation 1991–1997
In the aftermath of the April 1990 disturbances and the subsequent Woolf Report, the Conservative administration now led by John Major re-appraised...
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Approaches to Rehabilitation in Hong Kong
This chapter aims to examine how various aspects of offender rehabilitation have been delivered in the Hong Kong criminal justice system. It gives a...
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Penal Policies in Belgium
Emphasis on the symbolic role of prison foodways provides a particularly nuanced way of understanding the lived experiences of imprisonment. In so...
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Cryptocurrency Fraud: A Glance into the Perimeter of Fraud
Technology has made a lot of changes in the world, and the same has been identified and made public. With the growing digital world and online...
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Penality and the Ministry of Justice Era 2007–2020
Final chapter of Part One is commencing with the formation of the Ministry of Justice in 2007. The Department for Constitutional Affairs created in...
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Politics, Parliament and the Courts
Recognising the oftentimes polarising nature of court decision-making—and the overt public interest and political sensitivities which exist—this...
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The Role of Intuition in Expressing Support for Harsh Criminal Justice Policy
Despite being largely ineffective in producing long-term reductions in crime, harsh criminal justice policies receive continuing high levels of...
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Incarceration Trends in Italy Between Rising ‘Punitiveness’ and ‘Penal Moderation’
The article analyses Italian incarceration trends and the impact of prison population increases on the criminal punishment system as a whole. “
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Is There a Long-Term Criminogenic Effect of the Exposure to a Paternal Conviction During Upbringing? An Analysis of Full Siblings Using Swedish Register Data
ObjectivesThe current study analyzed the association between a final paternal conviction that occurred sometime 10 years prior to birth through age...
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Does Prison Deter Drunk-Drivers?
ObjectiveTo examine the specific deterrent effect of prison on driving under the influence of alcohol (DUI) recidivism.
MethodThe study outcomes...
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Criminal Justice Rehabilitation in Sweden: Towards an Integrative Model
The Swedish Criminal Code bases sentences on how serious the committed crime is, and emphasises the principles of proportionality, consistency and...