Full Description
Is there something distinctive about penology in Europe? Do Europeans think about punishment and penal policy in a different way to people in other parts of the globe? If so, why is this the case and how does it work in practice? This book addresses some major and pressing issues that have been emerging in recent years in the interdisciplinary field of 'European penology', that is, a space where legal scholarship, criminology, sociology and political science meet - or should meet - in order to make sense of punishment in Europe. The chapters in European Penology? have been written by leading scholars in the field and focus in particular on the interaction of European academic penology and national practice with European policies as developed by the Council of Europe and, increasingly, by the European Union.
Contents
Preface
Tom Daems, Dirk van Zyl Smit and Sonja Snacken
Contributors
Part One: Concepts and Institutions
1. Distinctive Features of European Penology and Penal Policy-Making
Sonja Snacken and Dirk van Zyl Smit
2. Punishment and the Question of Europe
Tom Daems
3. Knowledge Politics and Penal Politics in Europe
Ian Loader and Richard Sparks
4. The Emerging Role of the EU as a Penal Actor
Estella Baker
5. Approximation of Sanctions within the European Union
Roland Miklau
Part Two: Cross-Cutting Issues
6. The Processes of Criminalisation of Migrants and the Question of the European Union as a 'Land of Immigration'
Dario Melossi
7. Youth Justice Policy in Europe—Between Minimum Intervention, Welfare and New Punitiveness
Frieder Dünkel
8. Community Sanctions and European Penology
Fergus McNeill
9. Remand Detention in Europe: Comparative and Pan-European Aspects as Elements of a Wider European Penology
Christine Morgenstern
10. Prison Privatisation in Europe and Beyond: Changing States and Penal Rationalities
Alison Liebling
Part Three: Nationally Based Perspectives
11. Can Prosecutors be too Independent? An Italian Case Study
David Nelken
12. Truth in (the Implementation of) Sentencing: Belgium and Elsewhere
Kristel Beyens, Sonja Snacken and Dirk van Zyl Smit
13. A Spanish Window on European Law and Policy on Employment Discrimination Based on Criminal Record
Elena Larrauri and James B Jacobs
14. Penal Developments in Poland: New or Old Punitiveness?
Krzysztof Krajewski
15. Reversing The Punitive Turn: The Case of the Netherlands
René van Swaaningen
