Research Handbook on Penal Policy

Edited by Alessandro Corda

in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This thought-provoking Research Handbook explores how penal policies are shaped, contested, and transformed. It examines the development of penal strategies, analysing why systems converge in some areas and diverge in others.

Keywords: Penal Policy; Policymaking And Penal Strategies; Penal Governance; Politics Of Crime And Punishment; Punishment And Social Control; Comparative Penal Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781035308521
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Introduction to the Research Handbook on Penal Policy

Alessandro Corda

Ch 2 Penal policy and penal change

Ashley T. Rubin

Ch 3 Policy transfer, policy mobility, and policy hegemony in the penal field

Alessandro Corda

Ch 4 Penal populism and populist politics

John Pratt

Ch 5 Punishment and technocracy

Victor Lund Shammas

Ch 6 The influence of human rights on penal policymaking

Mattia Pinto

Ch 7 The ‘collateral effects’ of criminalization choices

Martina Galli

Ch 8 Should the criminal law be a last resort?

Douglas Husak

Ch 9 Proportionality and penal policy

Youngjae Lee

Ch 10 Legitimacy and moderation in penal policy

Sonja Snacken

Ch 11 Political ideologies and penal policy

Zelia A. Gallo

Ch 12 Political economy and penal policies

Ignacio González-Sánchez and José A. Brandariz

Ch 13 The politics of sentencing reform in the context of U.S. mass incarceration

Katherine Beckett

Ch 14 Crisis and penal policymaking in England and Wales

Harry Annison and Thomas Guiney

Ch 15 Penal policy and punishment in Brazil

Marcos César Alvarez, Fernando Salla and Maiara Corrêa

Ch 16 Punishment and penal policies in the People's Republic of China

Enshen Li

Ch 17 The penal policy of the European Union

Nina Peršak

Ch 18 Nordic penal policies and practices

Klara Hermansson

Ch 19 Challenges of comparative penal policy research in penal systems of the Global South

Bertha Prado-Manrique

Ch 20 Why dictators decarcerate

Gavin Slade, Umidjon Toshimov and Alexei Trochev

Ch 21 Bringing law back into penal policy research

Johanna Nickels

Ch 22 A very British arms race

Shami Chakrabarti

Ch 23 Penal policy reform at the micro level

Anne-Marie McAlinden

Ch 24 Reforming policing from the White House

Catherine Crump

Ch 25 Yesterday's terrorist

Hadar Aviram

Ch 26 Developing international prison standards

Dirk van Zyl Smit

Ch 27 Inside the penal policy control room

Gian Luigi Gatta

Ch 28 Danger, blame, and hostility

Henrique Carvalho

Ch 29 Penal policy and technological development

Manja Skočir and Aleš Završnik

Ch 30 Algorithmic futures

Robert Werth, Fernando Avila and Chloe Haimson

Ch 31 Questioning the logic of criminalization and penal policy

Michael J. Coyle and David Scott

Ch 32 Final thoughts

Alessandro Corda

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