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Cet article concerne l'impact des mesures de régulation du comportement antisocial et criminel des jeunes (âgés de 10 à 17 ans) en Angleterre et au Pays de Galles. Alors qu'il existe de nombreuses preuves d'une criminalisation en augmentation, il est important de relever l'existence de tendances contraires. Il est suggéré que l'augmentation de la criminalisation est plus le produit, au moins dans certains cas, de circonstances accidentelles que le fruit d'une volonté délibérée. Les tendances actuelles n'ont ainsi pas nécessairement besoin de refléter une volonté clairement exprimée d'être plus punitif ou d'être l'application d'un programme néolibéral. Il est possible que les comptes rendus non critiques du « tournant punitif » facilitent la construction de la « punitivité » en fait social et empêchent l'apparition de politiques plus progressistes.

This article examines the role of 'rehabilitation' in contemporary penal policy. Drawing on the work of Cullen and Gilbert (1982), and Rotman (1990), it advances a rights-based approach to rehabilitation. It is suggested that the vision of rehabilitation contained in recent policy documents and legislation does not match up to the theoretical model that is outlined, and that current rehabilitative efforts are window-dressing on an overly punitive 'managerialist' system.

The Happiness Problem shows that the illusion of control over our lives is too simplistic and can even be harmful. Sam Wren-Lewis offers an alternative: he proposes that we can connect with, and gain a deeper understanding of, the personal and social challenges that define our time.

AbstractAnalyses of crime based upon aggregate counts of different crime types have restricted value, because they count all crime types equally irrespective of the harm caused. In response to this problem, a series of weighted measures of crime harm have been proposed. In this short contribution, we contend that the use of some crime harm metrics to inform police deployment practices has the potential to reinforce ethnic disparities in the criminal justice system through the creation of unintended negative feedback loops. We focus our analysis on the Cambridge Crime Harm Index and the Office for National Statistics (ONS) Crime Severity Score, the preeminent crime harm indexes in England and Wales. We conclude that the ONS Crime Severity Score, which is based on mean sentencing outcomes, does give cause for concern in some contexts. There is currently no evidence that the Cambridge Crime Harm Index, based on sentencing guidelines, presents the same problems.

AbstractStrong evidence of racial and ethnic disparities has been documented in recent government‐led reports, suggesting the presence of discrimination in sentencing, with Black and ethnic minority defendants being systematically sentenced more harshly than their white counterparts. However, we still do not know how these disparities come about as most of the sentencing research has relied on quantitative designs focused on documenting the problem, rather than exploring its causes. In this exploratory study we use qualitative interviews with criminal law barristers to explore the different mechanisms that may give rise to these disparities. From our interviews we identified two predominant causal mechanisms: the differential consideration of mitigating and aggravating factors and indirect discrimination arising from defendants' socio‐economic backgrounds and over‐policing. Based on these findings, we suggest effective strategies such as explicitly listing social deprivation as a mitigating factor in the sentencing guidelines and increasing judicial diversity for redressing these disparities.

This book reviews the experiences of minority ethnic groups' within the criminal justice process, drawing upon the largest study of minority ethnic probationers ever conducted in Europe. It seeks to understand the stark contrast between the experience of white and black minority ethnic people in some areas of the criminal justice system, and makes an important contribution to the wider debate around race and crime.

This article presents the main findings of a survey of Black, Asian and mixed heritage men supervised by the probation service in 2001-2003. It discusses the long-standing concern that minority ethnic groups may be subject to discriminatory treatment in the criminal justice system, and examines the probation service's response to this concern. In the presentation and discussion of the findings, comparisons are made where possible with predominantly white probation samples. These suggest that minority ethnic offenders in the sample had received the same community sentences as white offenders with higher levels of criminogenic need. The possible meanings of this finding are explored, along with the implications of respondents' views of what constitutes helpful probation practice.