Inclusive crime control as a criminal policy model.

• In Event: Crime, Science and Politics WG Panel 2. Criminal Policy Evolution: not always forward

Abstract

A criminal justice policy model is a particular strategy to achieve crime prevention in accordance with a previously established penal program. Criminal justice policy models tend to prioritize certain objectives of the penal program over others. In this presentation, the criminal policy model of inclusive crime control is outlined. This model is integrated into welfarist or socially inclusive political projects, in contrast to neo-liberal political projects. It is based on the hypothesis, still to be verified, that less social exclusion produced by penal intervention bodies will have better crime prevention effects in the medium and long term. The eight key features of this model are presented, including the following: its comprehensive nature, as it deals with most of the relevant fields of crime control, grouped into nine broad areas; its legal and realistic nature, as it is focused on socially exclusionary legal rules and practices that are being applied or are likely to be applied in legal systems in the developed Western world; its consensual nature, as it focuses on those legal rules and practices that enjoy international expert consensus on their severely exclusionary quality; and its political nature, since its ultimate aim is, through international comparisons, to promote systems of crime control that abandon the use of certain rules and practices that are socially very exclusionary. Finally, comparative results already obtained will be presented.

Author

• Jose Luis Diez Ripolles, University of Malaga