Parole as resentencing: Exploring the punitive accounts of parole decision-making through the comparative case study of Israel

2021 ◽  
pp. 147737082110396
Author(s):  
Netanel Dagan
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Comparative Case Study ◽  
Public Confidence ◽  
Penal Policy ◽  
Future Risk ◽  
Parole Boards ◽  
Formal Recognition

Parole boards have traditionally assessed prisoners’ future risk and rehabilitation prospects in deciding on early release from prison. However, parole boards may do more. In some systems, they may deny parole applications for punitive reasons, thus acting as a resentencing authority. This study conducted a qualitative analysis of the punitive discourses of parole decision-making, with Israel as a comparative case study. Through interviews with 20 chairpersons of Israeli Parole Boards, we found three themes of punitive parole decision-making: (a) preserving public confidence in the criminal justice system; (b) preserving penal proportionality; and (c) re-censuring an especially depraved moral character. The findings suggested that parole boards’ punitive discretion is multidimensional and complex. Such punitive discretion may be openly implemented, it may be cloaked as risk assessment, or decided without formal recognition. The findings further indicated that resentencing through discretionary parole may not only conflict with rehabilitation and risk aims, but may also raise challenges for retributive and deterrent penal policy. Implications for comparative parole policy are discussed.

A Comparative Case Study of Three Korean Firms

2009 ◽  
pp. 145-162
Author(s):  
Junghoon Lee ◽  
Jungwoo Lee ◽  
Ja Young Lee
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Comparative Case Study ◽  
Study Analysis ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
Case Study Analysis ◽  
Business Values

Research has recently begun to place greater emphasis on the strategic application of IT in seeking to integrate firms’ IT infrastructures and business processes, thus boosting companies’ business values. In this context, efforts have been made to formulate workable structures for companies’ IT governance (ITG); however, little practical research has considered the effect of different forms of ITG in a range of domestic and multinational companies. This study undertakes a comparative case study analysis of the ITG setups of three large service sector firms in Korea. This research work sought to identify the activities, types, and determinants of firms’ ITG decision making processes, and to suggest the basis on which forms of ITG may represent rational selections for given service companies. The study was based on in-depth interviews with representatives of three firms, analysis of in-house materials, and the application of multiple perspectives dealing with ITG domains. Case study analysis yielded a detailed picture of the characteristics of ITG related decision making within the firms, suggesting the validity of the proposed ITG framework. The proposed and partially validated ITG framework should be useful for further research and practice of ITG.

Somatic individuality in context, a comparative case study

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 338-351
Author(s):  
Kelly Pender
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
At Risk ◽  
Genetic Determinism ◽  
Comparative Case Study ◽  
Genetic Medicine ◽  
Complicated Nature

Scholars have challenged the totalizing nature of the “geneticization thesis,” arguing that its brushstrokes are too broad to capture the complicated nature of the new genetics. One such challenge has come from Nikolas Rose’s argument that genetic medicine is governed by a new biopolitics in which patients understand themselves as “somatic individuals” who treat their bodies as an “ethical substance” to be worked on in order to secure a healthier future. I argue that Rose’s argument, while compelling, paints the new genetics in equally broad brushstrokes and that in order for a concept like somatic individuality to become useful, we must study its manifestation across different communities of at-risk individuals. I undertake such a study by analyzing discourse use in two online biosocial communities, showing how the decision-making situations specific to each affect representations of somatic individuality, often creating opportunities for the rhetorical repurposing of older discourses of genetic determinism.

Decision Making by a Part-Time Parole Board

1982 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 396-431 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHN A. CONLEY ◽  
SHER WOOD E. ZIMMERMAN
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Decision Process ◽  
Collective Decision ◽  
Parole Board ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Parole Boards

The complex of factors that influence parole decisions is not well understood. Prior research examined release decisions only in relation to inmate characteristics, while ignoring the collective decision process of parole boards. This case study found that decisions were a product of the interplay among the chairman and two coalitions within the board.

Reform and Renewal

2021 ◽  
pp. 74-90
Author(s):  
Lisa O. Monaco
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
National Security ◽  
Civil Liberties ◽  
Public Confidence ◽  
Government Accountability ◽  
Potential Damage

Edward Snowden’s leaks regarding the “215 Program” prompted an overdue and democracy-enhancing debate, as well as ensuing reforms, which together provide a useful case study in how debate, oversight, and transparency can enhance democratic decision-making about national security programs. Rather than wait for a leak to expose a controversial program and incur the potential damage to national security, thereby undermining public confidence in the government’s activities, a more effective and meaningful answer may come from trying carefully to maximize debate and transparency before, during, and after programs such as 215 are implemented. National security and civil liberties need not be in conflict; they are, rather, intertwined. Goals should be to increase government accountability to protect civil liberties and incentivize national security agencies to expend their resources wisely.

scholarly journals The Conundrum of Demographic Aging and Policy Challenges: A Comparative Case Study of Canada, Japan and Korea

2009 ◽  
Vol 36 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan A. McDaniel
Keyword(s):  
Population Aging ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Comparative Case Study ◽  
Economic Productivity ◽  
Policy Regimes ◽  
Participation Of Women ◽  
Demographic Aging ◽  
Labour Market Participation

Some analysts lean toward comparative analyses of population aging, then draw potential policy implications. Others lean in the direction of attention to differences in policy regimes and then consider implications of population aging. Key differences among advanced societies may not emanate from demographic aging but from differences in how markets, states, and families work to redistribute societal benefits. In this paper, three countries with contrasting configurations of markets, states, and families, and at different stages of demographic aging, are compared and contrasted: Canada, Japan, and Korea. The paper has three objectives: 1) to outline key changes in population, family, and work in the three countries; 2) to consider how knowledge about these changes, their dynamics and interrelationships, is framed with respect to policy options; and 3) to compare Canada, Japan, and Korea in terms of the framing of policy challenges related to demographic aging. It is found that Canada is joining the longstanding pattern of Japan and Korea of late home-leaving by youth, meaning less effective time in the paid labour force. Little deep connection exists between population aging and economic productivity or labour force shortages. Differential labour market participation of women mediates the effects of population aging.

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