A Measurement of Crime Control-Based Social Exclusion

• In Event: International Criminal Justice Perspectives

Abstract

Comparative criminal justice policy has a strong inclination to confront national crime control systems in accordance to corresponding levels of punitiveness. Some author (Díez-Ripollés, 2011, 2013) has advocated for a more enriched and comprehensive comparative framework, which is founded in either the social inclusion or the social exclusion effects that different crime control systems entail on three specific groups: suspects, offenders and ex-offenders. To this end, it identifies nine topic pools (control of public spaces, legal safeguards, sentencing and sanctions systems, harshest penalties, prison rules, preventive intervention, legal and social status of offenders and ex-offenders, police and criminal records, youth criminal justice), each of them comprising a number of punitive rules or practices. Assuming this model, we are designing and validating a comparative instrument able to measure current criminal policy of Western industrialized countries in accordance to the social inclusion / social exclusion dimension.

Authors

• Ana Isabel Cerezo, University of Malaga

• José Luis Díez-Ripollés, University of Malaga

• Elisa García-España, University of Malaga

• José Becerra, University of Malaga (Spain)

• Lorea Arenas, University of Malaga