Beyond ‘stagnation and change’?: Path dependency, translation and the ‘layering’ over time of Irish penal policy

Q2 Social Sciences
Claire Hamilton
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In the past decade or so a significant body of work on ‘Hibernian exceptionalism’ to broader punitive trends has emerged. The dominant argument and characterisation of Irish penality within this broad schema is that it is exceptional for having been largely stagnant. This article takes issue with the stagnation or ‘stickiness’ that is often supposed to characterise the Irish penal system arguing that stagnation as a form of ‘path dependency’ fails to adequately account for key moments of penal change and downplays the temporal dynamics that are often apparent in policy development. Using two key ‘policy windows’ as case studies – the 1996 ‘moral panic’ over crime and the post-2011 turn to a more progressive penal politics – it argues that greater consideration should be given to the ‘translation’ and ‘layering’ of policy decisions and the growing complexity of policy space that may result.

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超越“停滞和变化”?路径依赖,翻译和“分层”随着时间的爱尔兰刑罚政策
在过去十年左右的时间里,出现了大量关于“爱尔兰例外论”与更广泛的惩罚趋势的研究。在这个广泛的框架中,爱尔兰刑罚的主要论点和特征是,它在很大程度上停滞不前,这是一个例外。本文对通常被认为是爱尔兰刑罚制度特征的停滞或“粘性”提出了质疑,认为停滞作为一种“路径依赖”的形式未能充分解释刑罚变化的关键时刻,并淡化了在政策制定中经常明显的时间动态。使用两个关键的“政策窗口”作为案例研究——1996年对犯罪的“道德恐慌”和2011年后转向更进步的刑罚政治——它认为应该更多地考虑政策决策的“翻译”和“分层”,以及可能导致的政策空间日益复杂。
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期刊介绍: The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice is an international peer-reviewed journal committed to publishing high quality theory, research and debate on all aspects of the relationship between crime and justice across the globe. It is a leading forum for conversation between academic theory and research and the cultures, policies and practices of the range of institutions concerned with harm, security and justice.
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