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Research article

First published 2016-10

A matter of degree: A justice framework for penal legitimacy

João Pedro Costa

Punishment & Society

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Research article

First published 2025

Food and penal legitimacy in women's prisons

Daniel McCarthy, Jon Garland, Maria Adams [...]

European Journal of Criminology

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First published 2008-12

When Penal Populism Stops: Legitimacy,Scandal and the Power to Punish in New Zealand

John Pratt

Journal of Criminology

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First published 2018-6

The Effect of Penal Legitimacy on Prisoners’ Postrelease Desistance

Daniel McCarthy, Ian Brunton-Smith

Crime & Delinquency

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Research article

First published 2025

Contrasts in legitimacy: Indefinite preventive sentencing in Norway and England and Wales

John Todd-Kvam, Catherine Appleton, Sophie Ellis [...]

Incarceration: An international journal of imprisonment,detention and coercive confinement

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Research article

First published 2018-7

Underground penality: The IRA’s punishment of informers

Ron Dudai

Punishment & Society

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Research article

First published 2026

‘I sit somewhere in that sort of sweet spot’: Liminal legitimacy in criminal justice practice

Andrew (Andi) Brierley

Punishment & Society

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Research article

First published 2013-5

Colonial responses to youth crime in Hong Kong: Penal elitism,legitimacy and citizenship

Michael Adorjan, Wing Hong Chui

Theoretical Criminology

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First published 2019-2

A Chance to Reimagine Punishment and Penality?

Anita Dockley

Social & Legal Studies

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First published 2008-10

Late-modern rehabilitation

Gwen Robinson

Punishment & Society

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