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Citation

Lappi-Seppälä T. Eur. J. Criminol. 2011; 8(4): 303-328.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, European Society of Criminology, Publisher SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1477370811411459

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This paper presents the findings of a comparative study that explores the linkages between the use of imprisonment in 30 countries and a range of potentially explanatory factors for variations in this measure of punitivity, including: crime levels; social indicators, such as those measuring investment in welfare programmes and income inequality; trust in other people and trust in political institutions; public fear of crime and public punitivity; and variations in political structure and forms of democracy. The main conclusions are that moderate penal policies have their roots in a consensual and corporatist political culture, in high levels of social trust and political legitimacy, and in a strong welfare state; and that more punitive policies that make more use of imprisonment are to be found in countries where these characteristics are less in evidence.

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