The Victorian Prison Revisited? The Antecedents of British Penal Policy, 1993–2010*: Neil Davie

Hendrik Draye, tegenstander van de uitvoering van de doodstraf

WT. Tijdschrift over de geschiedenis van de Vlaamse beweging ◽

10.21825/wt.v65i2.12622 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 65 (2) ◽

pp. 134-152

Author(s):

Luc Vandeweyer

Keyword(s):

Death Penalty ◽

Second World War ◽

World War ◽

Penal Policy ◽

Catholic University ◽

The Subject ◽

The University ◽

Second World ◽

Young Professor

Hendrik Draye, opponent of the carrying out of the death penaltyIn this annotated and extensively contextualised source edition, Luc Vandeweyer deals with the period of repression after the Second World War. In June 1948, after the execution of two hundred collaboration-suspects in Belgium, the relatively young linguistics professor at the Catholic University of Leuven, Hendrik Draye, proposed, on humanitarian grounds, a Manifesto against the carrying out of the death penalty. Some colleagues, as well as some influential personalities outside the university, reacted positively; some colleagues were rather hesitant; most of them rejected the text. In the end, the initiative foundered because of the emphatic dissuasion by the head of university, who wanted to protect his university and, arguably, the young professor Draeye. The general public’s demand for revenge had not yet abated by then; moreover, the unstable government at that time planned a reorientation of the penal policy, which made a polarization undesirable. Nevertheless, Luc Vandeweyer concludes, "the opportunity for an important debate on the subject had been missed".

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Reproductive rights: Legal aspects of the right to sterilisation

Stanovnistvo ◽

10.2298/stnv0104119m ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 39 (1-4) ◽

pp. 119-130 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Hajrija Mujovic-Zornic

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Free Choice ◽

Reproductive Rights ◽

German Law ◽

Legal Aspects ◽

Penal Policy ◽

Abortion Law ◽

Legal Questions ◽

The Right ◽

Voluntary Sterilization

In this paper the author discusses the nature and importance of the right to reproduce, in particular the right to sterilisation. In the time past sterilization has been practiced only as a measure of penal policy or the prevention of mental health diseases. Today, mostly we can speak about the right to sterilization (especially reversible sterilization). The patient have a free choice to decide any method of contraception and that could be a voluntary sterilization (also called human, contraceptive, non-therapeutical in French law, and obliging in German law). Various legal questions about this right can be raised, in accordance of state of reproductive rights (how they are regulated by the law) and the protection of reproductive rights (especially the right of pregnant woman as a patient). Yugoslav law not yet has a complete regulation and adequate solutions in this area, except the abortion law. The primary gynecology care has contraceptive counseling, but concrete measures and education are insufficient. It cannot begin to give consistent answers to all of these questions without a coherent conception of the right to reproduce, which is the primary duty of legal experts.

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Bridging the Gap between Political and Penal Legitimacy

10.1093/oso/9780198718895.003.0006 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Ralph Henham

Keyword(s):

Political Economy ◽

Social Exclusion ◽

Social Value ◽

The Political ◽

Institutional Reforms ◽

Social Morality ◽

Penal Policy ◽

England And Wales ◽

Sentencing Policy ◽

The Relationship

This chapter argues that the relationship between penal policy and the political economy provides important insights into the political and institutional reforms required to minimize harsh and discriminatory penal policies. However, the capacity of sentencing policy to engage with this social reality in a meaningful way necessitates a recasting of penal ideology. To realize this objective requires a profound understanding of sentencing’s social value and significance for citizens. The greatest challenge then lies in establishing coherent links between penal ideology and practice to encourage forms of sentencing that are sensitive to changes in social value. The chapter concludes by explaining how the present approach taken by the courts of England and Wales to the sentencing of women exacerbates social exclusion and reinforces existing divisions in social morality. It urges fundamental changes in ideology and practice so that policy reflects a socially valued rationale for the criminalization and punishment of women.

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