Meet the Researchers – Federica Coppola

Video series presents the Max Planck Institute and its researchers

June 20, 2022

Under the hashtag #MeetTheResearchers, this bi-weekly video series showcases a researcher and his/her field of research and discusses why Freiburg is a wonderful place to live and work.

 

Episode 7: Federica Coppola, Senior Researcher, De­part­ment of Criminal Law

Episode 7: Federica Coppola, Senior Researcher, De&shy;part&shy;ment of Criminal Law:<br />&ldquo;One of the most pressing issues in current de&shy;bates on criminal justice concerns the short&shy;com&shy;ings of imprisonment. Prison environ&shy;ments can have traumatizing effects on con&shy;fined people. Long prison sentences have no positive impact on relapses on criminal be&shy;hav&shy;ior. Such draw&shy;backs clearly reflect an institu&shy;tional and societal failure to fulfill the individual justice and public safety goals of legal punish&shy;ment.&rdquo;

Meet the researchers – Video series introduces the MPI for the Study of Crime, Security and Law

Episode 7: Federica Coppola, Senior Researcher, De­part­ment of Criminal Law:
“One of the most pressing issues in current de­bates on criminal justice concerns the short­com­ings of imprisonment. Prison environ­ments can have traumatizing effects on con­fined people. Long prison sentences have no positive impact on relapses on criminal be­hav­ior. Such draw­backs clearly reflect an institu­tional and societal failure to fulfill the individual justice and public safety goals of legal punish­ment.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cTw6svH-f0
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