Social Exclusion and the Criminal Justice System

This book presents the results of the latest in a long-running research project using the RIMES instrument, developed by scholars in Spain. Here, RIMES is used to measure the extent of social exclusion resulting from the penal system in comparative perspective.

Elisa García España, University of Malaga, Spain. Anabel Cerezo, University of Malaga, Spain.

Introduction; Part I: A general overview to RIMES Instrument; 1. A Roadmap for Comparative Criminal Policy Research; 2. Social Inclusion and Comparative Criminal Justice Policy; 3. RIMES: An Instrument to Compare National Criminal Justice Policies from the Social Exclusion Dimension; 4. Constructing, Validation and Application of the RIMES Instrument: Methodological Issues; 5. The Pilot Application of RIMES Instrument in Spain; Part II: AP-RIMES Project: Results of the Application of RIMES Instrument in Western Jurisdictions; 6. Pool 1. Control of Public Spaces; 7. Pool 2. Legal Safeguards; 8. Pool 3. Sentencing and Sanction Systems; 9. Pool 4. Harshest Penalties; 10. Pool 5. Prison Rules; 11. Pool 6. Preventive Intervention; 12. Pool 7. Legal and Social Status of Offenders and Ex-Offenders; 13. Pool 8. Police and Criminal Records; 14. Pool 9. Youth Criminal Justice; 15. Overview of the RIMES application: insights for comparative criminal policy; Appendix: RIMES Instrument