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• The Practice of Imposing Sentences on Disqualification from the Profession in Hungary

  Dalma Hadházi

  Ágnes Pápai-Tarr

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  173

  Disqualification from the profession is a sanction in the Hungarian criminal law system that has a long historical tradition and deprives or limits people’s rights. The importance of enforcing these types of punishments in practice was recognised centuries ago, but unfortunately there has been very limited recent literature on them. In our study, after a short description of the substantive criminal law rules on disqualification from the profession, we analyse the imposition of this penalty in order to fill the gap in the literature on this sanction and to answer several questions that may arise in relation to its application.

• The role of Community Work in Decreasing Prison Population: the Finnish Experience

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  Ferenc Sipos

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  293

  A major part of the endeavours in recent punitive policy is to find alternatives for imprisonment. By a well-thought-out application of alternative sanctions and especially community work, criminal policy may greatly affect the proportion of the imposed sentences of imprisonment. One of the good examples can be seen in Finland, where the prison population of 200 convict per 100.000 citizens could be decreased to the quarter in a few decades. This study endeavours to present this process, hoping that such a short review may be usefully edifying also for Hungarian criminal policy.