When penal populism stops: legitimacy, scandal and the power to punish in New Zealand. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology (12/1/2008)
...are limits to the power of penal populism. It too can lose...familiar with what is known as 'penal populism'--the way in which an array of law and order lobby groups, the...civil servants, academics, penal reform groups and judges who...

Neither myth nor monolith: the bagne in fin-de-siecle France. (overseas penal colonies in Guyana or New Caledonia) Journal of European Studies (9/1/1998)
...esteemed member of the law faculty at Paris, characterized...Gabriel Tarde agreed: 'The penal colony is an Eldorado...lifetime spent in the penal colonies to be 'attractive...which allowed common-law criminals convicted of felonies to be sent to penal colonies. These establishments...

Religion and the Development of the American Penal System.(Book Review) Journal of Church and State (6/22/2003)
...Development of the American Penal System. By Andrew Skotnicki...have to. Colonial criminal law, the penitentiary, and nineteenth...caused a serious crisis in our penal system. Indeed, the "aimlessness...helped construct the American penal system by contributing to it...

Les troubles mentaux dans le Code criminel: une extension de l'interface entre le systeme penal et le systeme psychiatrique?(Canada) Canadian Journal of Criminology (4/1/1996)
...accuse peut affecter le processus penal, sont restees sensiblement...Chambre des Communes 1991; Health Law Review 1992). Ces modifications...charge importante par le systeme penal de personnel souffrant de problemes...circulation entre les systemes penal et de sante mentale se reverent...

The Williamson standard for the exception to the rule against hearsay for statements against penal interest.(Supreme Court Review)(Case Note) Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (3/22/1995)
...make statements against their penal interest unless they believe...evidence.(12) A. THE COMMON LAW EXCEPTION TO THE RULE AGAINST...exception for declarations against penal interest, the exceptions for...inculpatory statements against penal interest as unreliable for three...

The advent of the penal state is not a destiny. Social Justice (9/22/2001)
...an intrusive and omnipresent penal apparatus. The invisible hand...into its kingly functions of "law and order," themselves hypertrophied. The penal apparatus in the post-Keynesian...assigned to it. How are the penal state and the policy of "zero...

Western European Penal Systems. The Economist (US) (3/16/1996)
...unjust--and indispensable. Penal reform and counter-reform have...system. Now, as if by Hawthorne's law, penal fashion in America and much of Europe...guillotine have disappeared, as have the penal colony and the stone quarry. Yet...

Penal Populism and Public Opinion: Lessons from Five Countries.(Book Review) Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology (8/1/2003)
...enterprise loses its legitimacy when penal populists "allow the electoral...to take precedence over its penal effectiveness" (p. 5...key actor in the shaping of penal policy is a relatively recent...notification schemes such as Megan's Laws. Eventually, the justice paradigm...on changing a few ...

Constitutional and penal reforms should enhance women's rights, not limit them.(DOMINICAN REPUBLIC) Women's Health Journal (1/1/2009)
...considering an amendment to the penal code which would increase the...International human rights law and the Constitution as it is...Republic authorities to reform the Penal Code to ensure that women and...current national legislation (Penal Code). In August 2006, the...