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https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-22713| Publication type: | Book part |
| Type of review: | Editorial review |
| Title: | Day fines in Switzerland |
| Authors: | Killias, Martin Biberstein, Lorenz |
| et. al: | No |
| DOI: | 10.1017/9781108855020.016 10.21256/zhaw-22713 |
| Published in: | Day Fines in Europe : Assessing Income-Based Sanctions in Criminal Justice Systems |
| Editors of the parent work: | Kantorowicz-Reznichenko, Elena Faure, Michael |
| Page(s): | 306 |
| Pages to: | 323 |
| Issue Date: | 2021 |
| Publisher / Ed. Institution: | Cambridge University Press |
| ISBN: | 9781108855020 9781108490832 9781108796439 |
| Language: | English |
| Subjects: | Ersatzfreiheitsstrafen; Schweiz; Bussen; Geldstrafen |
| Subject (DDC): | 364: Criminology |
| Abstract: | In 2007, a new Swiss Criminal Code became legally effective in which short prison sentences were to a large extent replaced by income-based day-fines. In addition, flat fines (fixed sums ranging from 1 to 10,000 Swiss francs) became more widely available as additional sanctions. Both fines and day-fines are to be converted into custody if they remain unpaid. Several thousand defendants are affected by such a conversion every year, but no systematic information has been collected on these cases. In order to fill this gap, the Department of Justice of the Canton of Zurich commissioned an evaluation on how often, under what circumstances and against what type of defendants monetary penalties are converted into custody. To this end, 447 case files were analyzed and a sample of 106 defendants serving a monetary sanction in prison were interviewed. Staff members and officials in charge of collecting monetary penalties were also interviewed. The results show that the most defendants serving monetary penalties in prison are confronted with multiple problems of integration. A second group were sentenced to substantial amounts of flat fines or day-fines that they or their networks were unable to pay. |
| URI: | https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/22713 |
| Fulltext version: | Published version |
| License (according to publishing contract): | Licence according to publishing contract |
| Departement: | Social Work |
| Organisational Unit: | Institute of Delinquency and Crime Prevention (IDK) |
| Appears in collections: | Publikationen Soziale Arbeit |
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Killias, M., & Biberstein, L. (2021). Day fines in Switzerland. In E. Kantorowicz-Reznichenko & M. Faure (Eds.), Day Fines in Europe : Assessing Income-Based Sanctions in Criminal Justice Systems (pp. 306–323). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108855020.016
Killias, M. and Biberstein, L. (2021) ‘Day fines in Switzerland’, in E. Kantorowicz-Reznichenko and M. Faure (eds) Day Fines in Europe : Assessing Income-Based Sanctions in Criminal Justice Systems. Cambridge University Press, pp. 306–323. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108855020.016.
M. Killias and L. Biberstein, “Day fines in Switzerland,” in Day Fines in Europe : Assessing Income-Based Sanctions in Criminal Justice Systems, E. Kantorowicz-Reznichenko and M. Faure, Eds. Cambridge University Press, 2021, pp. 306–323. doi: 10.1017/9781108855020.016.
KILLIAS, Martin und Lorenz BIBERSTEIN, 2021. Day fines in Switzerland. In: Elena KANTOROWICZ-REZNICHENKO und Michael FAURE (Hrsg.), Day Fines in Europe : Assessing Income-Based Sanctions in Criminal Justice Systems. Cambridge University Press. S. 306–323. ISBN 9781108855020
Killias, Martin, and Lorenz Biberstein. 2021. “Day Fines in Switzerland.” In Day Fines in Europe : Assessing Income-Based Sanctions in Criminal Justice Systems, edited by Elena Kantorowicz-Reznichenko and Michael Faure, 306–23. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108855020.016.
Killias, Martin, and Lorenz Biberstein. “Day Fines in Switzerland.” Day Fines in Europe : Assessing Income-Based Sanctions in Criminal Justice Systems, edited by Elena Kantorowicz-Reznichenko and Michael Faure, Cambridge University Press, 2021, pp. 306–23, https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108855020.016.
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