Punitive Turn and the Legislative Process in Criminal Law-Making

Beskrivelse

In Nordic criminological and legal research literature, it is often argued that a
‘punitive turn, Nordic style’ took place in the 1990s. Recent research has mapped
the development of the Danish criminal law during the last four decades on a
general level and identified an increasing number of amendments from the
beginning of the2000s. How this drift into a more punitive ‘law and order’ society
impacts on criminal law-making is however yet to be studied empirically. We have
identified all new amendments, and new provisions and modified existing
provisions in the Danish criminal law in the period 1980-2019 using the online
database, Karnov. Each provision has been registered into the qualitative data
analysis program, Nvivo, and categorized according to whether it has influenced
on the punitive turn in Denmark. Based on this data, the document analysis
method combined with the doctrinal legal research method is used to examine
how the punitive turn in Denmark has influenced the legislative process in criminal law-making from 1980-2019. The paper presents the preliminary findings of this
project.

Periode	8 maj 2023
Begivenhedstitel	NSfK Research seminar 2023 The future of punishment: Reducing recidivism and promoting societal integration?
Begivenhedstype	Seminar
Placering	FinlandVis på kort
Grad af anerkendelse	International