Punishment + Humane. Meaning and Purpose of Criminal Sanctions: For a More Humane System of Penalties
The project aims to study criminal sanctions from the combined perspectives of Law and Criminology. It will take stock of the meaning and purpose of criminal sanctions by covering four distinct dimensions: (a) normative (critical study of criminal law); (b) judicial (review of leading cases); (c) penitentiary (enforcement of criminal sanctions); and (d) sociological (practical implications of a social nature for the convicted person and his or her family). The main purpose of the project is to ascertain the extent to which the penal system fulfils its preventive and humanitarian goals, and whether it can be developed towards a greater humanization, both in its conception and in its execution. The project will discuss inter alia proposals regarding a dritte spur (third path) of criminal sanctions, or even Restorative Justice, to move towards a reparative and reconciling dimension of criminal sanctions (criminal law of reparation). The project will focus on the Portuguese legal system, while comparing it with the Brazilian and the German legal systems. It will furthermore involve academics and judicial actors from different Portuguese-speaking countries.
Duration: 2018-…
Co-PI: Pedro Miguel Freitas
Team: Clovis Demarchi, Diogo Pinto da Costa, Fernando da Costa Gonçalves, Fernando Conde Monteiro, Flávia Noversa Loureiro, Helena Grangeia, Joana Aguiar e Silva, Leonor Assunção, Madalena Oliveira, Manuel Simas Santos, Margarida Santos, Marisalva Fávero, Nestor Santiago, Olga Furriel Cruz, Paulo Silva Fernandes, Selma Santana,Valéria Gomes.
Partners: UNIVALI (AICTS)
JusGov Research Groups: JusCrim