POSSIBLE CRIMINAL LAW: prison is not the only solution, nor the best
POSSIBLE CRIMINAL LAW: prison is not the only solution, nor the best
“Spain has a much lower crime rate than the European average (in the United Kingdom doubled ours) and a downward trend in crime for 20 years. However, 90% of citizens believe the country is becoming more dangerous and a higher percentage of prisoners than any other European country: the figure has increased fourfold in 30 years ”
“Society seems to believe that the prison is full of very dangerous criminals, but not true. The vast majority are imprisoned for drug offenses or against property. The prison should be used when really necessary. Not valid for all ”
“The prison is hard. Society is not aware of what it means to be imprisoned, it is a vital devastation ”
“Spain has to consider effective alternatives to prison, with experts and so quiet. There can be no more prisoners in our jails ”
Carlos Rios Julian Martin, a professor at the University of Comillas, criminal law expert and author of book
“Revenge or reintegration? How do we ensure the provision of justice? Do we need a collective reflection, serious and serene on the role of prisons, the reasons for their overbooking and type of convictions?
Of course, in a country with an uncontrolled expansion of the penal system, with few but very serious crimes based on media coverage that create alarm morbid social and political pressure on legislators, and public demonstrations clamoring for tougher sentences, chains sentences and to the gallows, there is clearly fertile ground for an initiative such as the Platform Other Criminal Law Is Possible to see the light.
More temperance rather stick to reality, more technical and less blind fits of rage are the essential ingredients for reform and clean prisons and criminal law. And this cleansing and renewal is underway.
Judges, prosecutors, law professors, teachers, lawyers, psychiatrists, doctors, sociologists, institutions, organizations and ordinary citizens, increase the list to join the Platform is Possible Another Criminal Law which aims to report the problems and shortcomings of Spanish prison system performance and “humanized, creating a criminal law that creates the least possible personal violence, to ensure respect for fundamental rights and protect the legitimate interests of repair material and emotional support to victims.”
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WzuAZa Good point. I hadn’t thought about it quite that way.