Balance of the RIMES application: insights for comparative criminal policy

• In Event: Quantitative Methods WG. Panel 3 Comparative Analyses of Criminal Justice Policies and Systems

Abstract

In this paper we shall provide the results of the application of RIMES in several countries like California, England & Wales, Germany, Italy, New York, Poland and Spain, as regards the level of social exclusion caused by those European and American criminal justice systems, as well as comparisons among them. The aim of this paper is to make a more general political-criminal comparison and to place each jurisdiction on a continuum from least to most social exclusion. By doing so, we fulfil the objectives set by the RIMES and AP-RIMES projects: to operationalise the theoretical model of Díez-Ripollés (2011, 2013) through the design and implementation of an instrument that allows to compare criminal policies from the perspective of the social exclusion caused by penal systems on suspects, defendants, offenders and ex-offenders.

Authors

• Elisa Garcia-España, University of Malaga

• Anabel Cerezo, University of Malaga

• Pablo Rando, University of Sevilla