International Journal of Criminology and Criminal Law(IJCCL)

Assistant Professor Department of Social Studies, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia

Publications

• Research Article   
  The Instrumentalization of Criminal Law in Autocratic Legalism
  Author(s): Ahmed F. Alanazi*
  
  This manuscript examines the complex and often fraught relationship between crime governance, criminal justice systems, and democratic governance. Drawing on theoretical frameworks from Foucault to social contract theory, comparative penology, and empirical studies of mass incarceration, it argues that the administration of criminal justice is not merely a technical or legal matter but a fundamental test of democratic vitality. The manuscript explores how mass incarceration functions as a form of anti-democratic socialization, how comparative analysis reveals divergent trajectories of punitiveness tied to political culture and welfare state structures, how police accountability deficits threaten democratic legitimacy, how transitional justice mechanisms navigate the fraught terrain between truth and accountability, and how contemporary reform movements seek to re-democratize criminal .. Read More»
  

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