Legality and Legitimacy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8400130 |
|---|---|
| Authors | EINAR ØDEGÂRD (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 525-542 |
| Publication date | 1995-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal of Criminology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-0955 • E-ISSN: 1464-3529 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.a048545 |
| OpenAlex | W2335953429 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
In the democratic vision there should be opportunities for citizens to exercise power over government decisions. Legal and constitutional arrangements ought to be supported by public opinion. Therefore statutes should ideally mirror the dominant attitude of the population. In the drugs field, there has been a sharpening of sentences given in Norway and in a number of countries that cannot be matched in any other area in which society applies penal sanctions. This article raises the question of whether this trend in the level of punishment has developed in harmony with popular opinion, something which both supporters and opponents of penalties of greater severity seem to take for granted
Authoritarianism · Democracy · Democratic legitimacy · Government (linguistics) · Harmony (color) · Law and economics · Legitimacy · Political science · Politics · Population · Power (physics) · Principle of legality · Public opinion · Sanctions · Sociology · Statute · European and International Law Studies · Law
| Citations per year | 0.1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1996 - 2019 (24) |
| Highly cited | No |