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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Penality"”.
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Parole In The Penal System: Towards A Relational Theory Of Penality
This thesis aims to develop a theoretical model which explains how the penal realm functions qua system. A second aim is to use this model to challenge a number of contemporary theories of penal transformation (as advanced in the works of Malcolm Feeley and Jonathan Simon, David Garland and Tony …
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Gender responsive penality: A feminist abolitionist analysis of official penal discourse post Corston report (2007).
This thesis critically investigates the publication, reception and impact of the Corston Report (2007) on official penal discourse prior to and after its publication. The thesis applies the ideas of Canadian feminist penologist Kelly Hannah-Moffat, who has highlighted the potential mutation of …
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Colonial penality : a case study of Hong Kong's penal policy and programmes under British administration (1945-1997)
… in this thesis to illustrate how colonial penality was developed after the Second World War.Penal policies and programmes in Hong Kong divorced gradually from the British practices after the Second World War and ended with significant differences in 1997 when Hong Kong was handed back to …
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Care beyond justice: The conflicted ethics of drug treatment courts
… rule of law, objectivity, impartiality, and penality) with a practice of care, which tends to require local, situated assessments of need as well as access. These are often competing ethical responsibilities. I illustrate this conflict in multiple ways. I situate drug courts within a history …
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A Civilized Society? The Culture of Punishment in Canada
… in Canada. This thesis explores Canada’s current penality through a critical, qualitative content analysis of the Safe Streets and Communities Act (2012) legislation and a sample of online public commentary. Drawing on the de/civilizing process theories of Norbert Elias (1939/2000) and John Pratt …
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The McDonaldized Death Penalty: Neoliberalism, Governmentality, and American Capital Punishment
… insert into various societal spheres (including penality). I examine modern era developments in capital punishment in the United States through the contextual framework of McDonaldization to understand how McDonaldization has served to legitimate the institution. My analysis suggests a transition …
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Justice and Ethics in Penal Practice.
… and effective practice the complexity of ‘penality’ - both in terms of the influences that shape it and of its many meanings, functions and consequences. The commentary concludes with an attempt to identify the original contributions to knowledge made through these works.
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Lubanga, child soldiering and the philosophy of international law
… A more logical analysis of international penality would draw on the conceptual underpinnings of the whole project of international law and specific features of the ICC. A good starting point is to note that international criminal justice is largely symbolic. A more plausible penal …
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Politics of the number: an account of predominent South African prison gang influences
… shows that DCS has embraced a policy of harsher penality, although its official position is that it is transforming into an administration that is focused upon human rights. This paper will thus give brief insight into the prison gangs’ organization and operations, and then focus upon various …
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Prison Space, Social Control and Relationships in a Post-Soviet Women’s Prison
… in Latvia, and in particular its effect on penality and women’s imprisonment. This rupture has been conceptualized as a ‘clash of the titans’, which is the ongoing struggle between a Soviet legacy that refuses to die and an increasingly dominant neoliberal regime. While the breakdown of …
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Networks of Solidarity in Prison Writing: Facilitation of Critical Penal Discourse through the Kingston Prison for Women's Tightwire Publication
… to crime and violence. The gendered nature of penality that further entrenches racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic, and ableist norms that permit social divisions under neoliberal capitalist nation state governance will be discussed at length. Through the study of prison writing …