Criminalization

Politics and Policies

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2024
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-70784-9 (ISBN)

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Criminalization: Politics and Policies provides a thorough analysis of the relationship between politics, policies, and criminalization. Through diverse perspectives and scholarly essays, it explores the multifaceted issues in criminal justice, law, and governance. The book scrutinizes the impact of law, society, politics, and penal populism on criminalization across legal systems, advocating for a reassessment of criminal law's scope. It delves into the prevalence of resorting to criminalization for social issues, urging for a critical review. Additionally, it examines the normative foundations of criminalization, addressing 'over'-criminalization and exploring its empirical and normative aspects. The anthology also considers the roles of prosecutorial and judicial discretion, as well as State preventive powers, in over-criminalization. Whether a scholar, policymaker, or citizen, readers gain insights into the expansion of criminal laws and their consequences, making it a valuable resource for understanding the dynamics of law, politics, and power in criminal justice.

Contributors are Naveed Mehmood, Chirag Balyan, Shruti Bedi, Shubhangni Jain, Charles Khamala, Sébastien Lafrance, Sidharth Luthra, David McCallum, Garima Pal, Daria Ponomareva, Alok Prasanna, Yogesh Pratap Singh, and Ekkehard Strauss.

Chirag Balyan is an Assistant Professor of Law at Maharashtra National Law University Mumbai. He was instrumental in setting up the Centre for Research in Criminal Justice at MNLU Mumbai. He has published in leading journals and co-edited a book titled: Revisiting Reforms in the Criminal Justice System in India (Thomson Reuters, 2020). Garima Pal is an Assistant Professor at Maharashtra National Law University Mumbai. She is Managing Editor of the Journal Victimology and Victim Justice published by Sage. She is also an Executive Director of Care Village Foundation, Delhi (Non-Profit Organization). She has published numerous papers and book chapters in leading journals. She has co-authored book Hate Crime in India (Springer, 2023).

Acknowledgments

Notes on Contributors

1 Criminalization: An Introduction

Chirag Balyan and Garima Pal

2 Politics of Criminalization

Sidharth Luthra and Shubhangni Jain

3 Spaces of Assessment and Incarceration

David McCallum

4 Evaluating Overcriminalization on the Basis of International Human Rights Law: The Example of Counterterrorism Legislation

Ekkehard Strauss

5 Criminalization: Reflection on Theories

Chirag Balyan

6 Criminalization and the Presumption of Innocence

Sébastien Lafrance

7 Democratic Erosion by Parochial Measures: A Study of Rising Criminalization of Free Speech in India

Yogesh Pratap Singh

8 The Jurisprudence of Constitutional Morality and the Pathologies of Criminalisation

Shruti Bedi

9 Drug Laws – The Reality and Politics of Overcriminalization

Alok Prasanna Kumar and Naveed Mehmood

10 The Concept of Overcriminalization in Russian Law

Daria V. Ponomareva

11 Overcriminalization by Containment without covid: Inside Kenya’s Refugee Camps

Charles A. Khamala

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Erscheinungsdatum	14.11.2024
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Critical Social Sciences ; 293
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	528 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	90-04-70784-0 / 9004707840
ISBN-13	978-90-04-70784-9 / 9789004707849
Zustand	Neuware