Constructing and validating an instrument for comparing national criminal justice policies

IF 0.5 Q4 CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY

Revista Criminalidad Pub Date : 2022-03-24 DOI:10.47741/17943108.313

L. Arenas-García

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Abstract

The social exclusion generated by criminal justice policies adopted by some countries regarding certain individuals (offenders, ex-offenders, defendants, or suspects) places these individuals in worse individual and social conditions pursuant to their contact with penal institutions. Measuring social exclusion is useful for comparing different national crime control systems and for estimating how exclusionary a country is. However, raditional comparisons of criminal justice policies have focused on the level of punitiveness exerted by each national criminal justice system referring to the incarceration rate per 100.000 inhabitants. As pointed out by Díez-Ripollés y García-España (2019), constituting all comparisons around one indicator marginalises others with stronger measurement capacity. For this reason, an instrument of 39 indicators was created by the authors using expert judgments (Díez-Ripollés & García-España, 2019). This article discusses the development of the tool in detail and how its validity and reliability were established. To validate the instrument, we surveyed 99 international experts and applied Aiken V as the main statistical procedure. Our findings suggest this instrument is valid and reliable for international comparison.

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构建和验证比较国家刑事司法政策的工具

一些国家对某些人(罪犯、前罪犯、被告或嫌疑犯)所采取的刑事司法政策所造成的社会排斥使这些人由于与刑事机构的接触而处于更恶劣的个人和社会条件。衡量社会排斥对于比较不同国家的犯罪控制系统和估计一个国家的排斥程度是有用的。然而，传统的刑事司法政策比较侧重于每个国家刑事司法系统施加的惩罚水平，即每10万居民的监禁率。正如Díez-Ripollés y García-España(2019)所指出的那样，围绕一个指标进行所有比较会使其他具有更强测量能力的指标边缘化。因此，作者使用专家判断创建了一个包含39个指标的工具(Díez-Ripollés & García-España, 2019)。本文详细讨论了该工具的发展，以及如何建立其有效性和可靠性。为了验证仪器，我们调查了99位国际专家，并采用Aiken V作为主要统计程序。我们的研究结果表明，该工具是有效和可靠的国际比较。

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Revista Criminalidad CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY-

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0.50

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20 weeks

期刊介绍： Revista Criminalidad (Rev. Crim.) is a publication aimed at disclosing original investigation and research results as well as unpublished works offering significant contributions to the fields of criminology, criminality and related disciplines. Likewise, it exposes quantitative and qualitative analyses and information regarding crimes and infringements in the Colombian territory. This journal is addressed to the national and international scientific-academic community carrying out studies relating to its thematic area. It is a publication of the Criminal Investigation Directorate and INTERPOL –DIJIN– of the National Police of Colombia, released three times a year in April, August, and December. It was created in 1958 as an annual publication until 2007 when it became bi-annual. In 2013, it began to be published three times a year. It was assigned code ISSN in 2004 and the virtuaI ISSN in 2012, after which it was included in indexation and information systems.