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In this article ‘criminal policy’ refers to current criminal political practice, not to the planning of criminal policy. It should not be denied, however, that the discussion of reforms implying changes in existing laws or practices may at least indirectly already have some impact on the state of crime. In all other respects ‘criminal policy’ is taken in the widest sense of the word, including legislation as well as the administration of criminal justice at various levels, such as the decisions of the court, prosecution activity, and police practice, areas where the power of discretion may exert a considerable influence.
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Karl O. Christiansen, Landssvigerkriminaliteten i sociologisk belysning. Copenhagen, 1955, pp. 23–24.
Based on information in Niels Alkil (ed.), Bes ettelsestidens fakta. Vol. I, sec. A. Copenhagen, 1945.
Ibid., sec. D.
Karl O. Christiansen, ‘Crime in Denmark from 1937 to 1948,’ in Thorsten Sellin (ed.), The Effects of the War on Criminality. Select Papers on Penal and Penitentiary Affairs. Berne, 1951, pp. 562 if.
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Christiansen, K.O. (1976). The Interaction of Criminal Policy and the State of Crime. In: Criminology Between the Rule of Law and the Outlaws. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-4988-6_4
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