This book draws on a wealth of evidence including young people's own stories, to document
how they are now faring in increasingly unequal societies like America, Britain, Australia …

David Nelken is the 2013 laureate of the Association for Law and Society International Prize
The increasingly important topic of comparative criminal justice is examined from an original …

Our paper surveys the development of criminal hybrid models in two continental
jurisdictions, Italy and France, following the 1987 Recommendation of the Committee of …

This essay reviews five books as they relate to the causes and political consequences of
mass imprisonment in the United States and the comparative politics of penal policy: Ruth …

The 2008 financial crash, and the lessons it teaches us about the costs of unregulated
excess, offers an opportunity to think anew about, and seek to temper, the enthusiasm for …

Drastic increases in the use of imprisonment; the introduction of'three strikes' laws and
mandatory sentences; restrictions on parole-all of these developments appear to signify a …

While liberal-democratic states like America, Britain and Australia claim to value freedom of
expression and the right to dissent, they have always actually criminalized dissent. This …

El presente trabajo desarrolla instrumentos de análisis en el campo de la política criminal
comparada. A tales efectos, aboga por la dimensión inclusión/exclusión social como punto …

El estudio pretende caracterizar la política criminal contemporánea a partir del abuso que
los poderes públicos hacen de los instrumentos de intervención penal. Escoge como criterio …

This article studies the concept of “mass incarceration,” the most relevant feature of criminal
justice policy during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. It first acknowledges …