Balkan Criminology: Punishment and Prisons and their Alternatives

Session Submission Type: Pre-arranged Panel

Abstract

The panel session brings together scholars of the Balkan Criminology Network and aims at discussing the current state of art in penological research and punishment policies. Special attention is given to the question how migration and ethnical diversification impact crime and its control, prisons and the criminal justice systems across Europe with a particular focus on the Balkans. The purpose of the panel session is thus to provide for new impulses and innovative approaches on recidivism research and alternatives to traditional penal sanctions. Seemingly growing penal populism across Europe and in particular the Balkans urges the panellists from Romania, Germany and Croatia to critically investigate current sentencing and recidivism trends in order to jointly discuss potentially more meaningful solutions for crime and its control.

Subtopic

• Topic 5: Social Control and Criminal Justice / Non-Criminal Justice Responses to Delinquency (WG on Collateral Consequence of Criminal Records)

Chair

• Hans-Jörg Albrecht, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law; Balkan Criminology

Individual Presentations

• Crime, Punishment and its Alternatives in Romania - Andra Roxana Trandafir, University of Bucharest; Daniel Nitu, Babes-Bolyai University, Facultuy of Law

• Prisons Responding to Overcrowding – Migration, Human Smuggling and THB - Anna-Maria Getoš Kalac, University of Zagreb Faculty of Law

• Immigration and Alternative Forms of Justice - Hans-Jörg Albrecht, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law; Balkan Criminology

• Recidivism in Croatia - Lea Feuerbach, Central European Academy; Balkan Criminology