Constructing reasons for sentencing: Pre-sentence reports in a Danish historical context
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Constructing reasons for sentencing: Pre-sentence reports in a Danish historical context. / Johansen, Louise Victoria.
2019. Abstract from 19th Annual Conference of theEuropean Society of Criminology, Ghent, Belgium.
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T1 - Constructing reasons for sentencing: Pre-sentence reports in a Danish historical context
AU - Johansen, Louise Victoria
PY - 2019/9/20
Y1 - 2019/9/20
N2 - In Denmark and many other countries, criminal justice systems have used pre-sentence reports fordecades as a tool to construct knowledge about the defendant in order to impose a range of alternativesanctions. These changes within alternative sanctions have been linked to shifting ideas about therelation between criminality, person and society during the 20th century. However, this paper argues thatthe larger, paradigmatic changes within penal decision-making may be articulated quite differently ineveryday institutional perspectives and practices. When analyzing specific Danish Probation forms andguidelines for issuing pre-sentence reports, we see that these forms have been surprisingly stable duringthe whole century, in the sense that the categories of questions put to defendants remain almostunchanged. This indicates that it may not be the knowledge format of the report itself that has changed significantly, but the way its knowledge has been put to use, suggesting that the report can actualizedifferent aspects of the criminal person according to available penal interventions.
AB - In Denmark and many other countries, criminal justice systems have used pre-sentence reports fordecades as a tool to construct knowledge about the defendant in order to impose a range of alternativesanctions. These changes within alternative sanctions have been linked to shifting ideas about therelation between criminality, person and society during the 20th century. However, this paper argues thatthe larger, paradigmatic changes within penal decision-making may be articulated quite differently ineveryday institutional perspectives and practices. When analyzing specific Danish Probation forms andguidelines for issuing pre-sentence reports, we see that these forms have been surprisingly stable duringthe whole century, in the sense that the categories of questions put to defendants remain almostunchanged. This indicates that it may not be the knowledge format of the report itself that has changed significantly, but the way its knowledge has been put to use, suggesting that the report can actualizedifferent aspects of the criminal person according to available penal interventions.
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Y2 - 18 September 2019 through 21 September 2019
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