Criminal Justice Policy Transfer and Prison Counter-Radicalization: Examining Canadian Participation in the Roma-Lyon Group

2015 ◽  
Vol 30 (03) ◽  
pp. 381-400 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Monaghan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
National Level ◽  
The United States ◽  
Policy Transfer ◽  
Criminal Justice Policy ◽  
Policy Reforms ◽  
Legal Research ◽  
The United Kingdom

AbstractThreats of radicalization have become dominant tropes for Western security agencies. This article examines efforts to address radicalization in the penal setting. Examining the prison counter-radicalization project directed by the secretive G8 Roma-Lyon Group, the article details Canadian participation on the basis of wanting to acquire counter-radicalization best practices from abroad. Contributing to criminal justice policy transfer studies, the article highlights disjunctures between reforms programs driven by powerful actors and particular contexts where these prescribed policy reforms take shape. Characterizing the Roma-Lyon Group as a venue for norm-makers such as the United States and the United Kingdom, and Canada as a norm-taker, the article traces the transfer of counter-radicalization practices from the transnational to the national level. Underlining how the replication of counter-radicalization policies fits into trends of precautionary risk and governing through insecurity, the article concludes by highlighting what the transfer of prisoner radicalization policy means for future socio-legal research.

The Violence of Inequality: Race and Lobbying in the Politics of Crime and Criminal Justice in the United States

2021 ◽  
pp. 68-93
Author(s):  
Sappho Xenakis ◽  
Leonidas K. Cheliotis
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Political Process ◽  
The United States ◽  
Reciprocal Relationship ◽  
Criminal Justice Policy ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Us

There is no shortage of scholarly and other research on the reciprocal relationship that inequality bears to crime, victimisation and contact with the criminal justice system, both in the specific United States context and beyond. Often, however, inequality has been studied in conjunction with only one of the three phenomena at issue, despite the intersections that arguably obtain between them–and, indeed, between their respective connections with inequality itself. There are, moreover, forms of inequality that have received far less attention in pertinent research than their prevalence and broader significance would appear to merit. The purpose of this chapter is dual: first, to identify ways in which inequality’s linkages to crime, victimisation and criminal justice may relate to one another; and second, to highlight the need for a greater focus than has been placed heretofore on the role of institutionalised inequality of access to the political process, particularly as this works to bias criminal justice policy-making towards the preferences of financially motivated state lobbying groups at the expense of disadvantaged racial minorities. In so doing, the chapter singles out for analysis the US case and, more specifically, engages with key extant explanations of the staggering rise in the use of imprisonment in the country since the 1970s.

scholarly journals Identifying Best Practices Across Three Countries: Hospital Antimicrobial Stewardship in the United Kingdom, France, and the United States

2014 ◽  
Vol 59 (suppl_3) ◽  
pp. S170-S178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kavita K. Trivedi ◽  
Catherine Dumartin ◽  
Mark Gilchrist ◽  
Paul Wade ◽  
Philip Howard
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Antimicrobial Stewardship ◽  
The United States ◽  
The United Kingdom

Immigration Policy and the Global Competition for AI Talent

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tina Huang ◽  
Zachary Arnold
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Immigration Policy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Immigration Policies ◽  
Global Competition ◽  
The United Kingdom

Current immigration policies may undermine the historic strength of the United States in attracting and retaining international AI talent. This report examines the immigration policies of four U.S. economic competitor nations—the United Kingdom, Canada, France, and Australia—to offer best practices for ensuring future AI competitiveness.

Toward International Comparative Research on Associational Activity

2013 ◽  
Vol 43 (2_suppl) ◽  
pp. 163S-181S ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik W. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
National Level ◽  
The United States ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
International Comparative Research ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
International Comparative

This article describes the scope and composition of national associational populations in four similar countries (Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and United States), by way of introducing an important new data release on national associational populations. Special attention is devoted to the subset of associations attending to social inequality issues of gender, race/ethnicity, and sexual orientation, and which are of particular interest to social movement and interest group scholars. No evidence is found for the Tocquevillian notion of heightened national-level associational activity in the United States. The nonmembership associational form is, however, particularly prominent in the United States. Associations attending to social inequality issues in the United Kingdom are structured very differently from these other nations, likely as a result of the unitary nature of government in that country rather than a strong federal system.

scholarly journals Restorative Justice: A New Paradigm for Criminal Justice Policy

2003 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald J Schmid
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Restorative Justice ◽  
Common Law ◽  
The United States ◽  
Criminal Justice Policy ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Traditional Approaches

In this article, Donald Schmid reviews trends towards restorative justice across several common law jurisdictions, most notably New Zealand and the United States. He examines different models of restorative justice and concludes that, while none of these practices will completely eliminate the need for other, court-based criminal justice processes, they have a large number of practical and social advantages over more traditional approaches.

Intellectual Roots of the Welfare State

2021 ◽  
pp. 38-52
Author(s):  
Christopher Pierson ◽  
Matthieu Leimgruber
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
The United States ◽  
Policy Transfer ◽  
Social Citizenship ◽  
Social Democrats ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
International Learning ◽  
The Welfare State

This chapter considers the intellectual roots of the welfare state in changing views about states and their competences from the middle of the nineteenth to the middle of the twentieth centuries. This happens in particular national contexts, with differing patterns of both democratization and bureaucratization. From the beginning, we can observe patterns of international learning and policy transfer. This process is traced through a number of national cases: Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and the English-speaking nations, Sweden and the United States. Although the welfare state has come to be identified with social citizenship and ‘social justice’, its ideational and normative roots are much more diverse and contested than this. And although the welfare state came to be identified with social democrats, especially after 1945, its origins more usually lie with liberal, or even conservative, forces and ideas.

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