Public Punitiveness in Europe

Public Punitiveness in Low, Median and High Crime Areas in Athens (Greece)

Anastasia Chalkia, from the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, made a contribution to the 2012 Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, in the category “Criminological Theory, Research and Education,” under the title “Public Punitiveness in Low, Median and High Crime Areas in Athens (greece)”. Here is the abstract: Public punitiveness has been mainly interpreted, theoretically and empirically through instrumental or expressional/relational aspects. Drawing on the perspective of place as distinguished by different levels of criminality and socioeconomic/environmental characteristics, the present paper explores the pluralistic context of the factors that contribute to the shaping of punitive attitudes. Moreover, it focuses on the Durkheimian approach of punishment as reassurance of social values, the belief that the offender cannot change and the conservative orientation of the person. The significance of the above in the formulation of the public punitiveness is tested and evaluated.

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• “Public Punitiveness in Low, Median and High Crime Areas in Athens (greece)”, by Anastasia Chalkia (Proceedings)