In Switzerland it is used as a political instrument by the right wing parties. They call it &#x27;Kuscheljustiz&#x27; (&#x27;cuddle justice&#x27;) and the tabloids are happily using the term too.<p>It got a new height with the &#x27;Durchsetzungsinitiative&#x27;, a popular initiative we get to vote on in a month. It wants to enforce the result of the popular initiative on the (automatic) deportation of foreign criminals which got accepted by 52.3 of voters (and 17.5 of cantons) in 2010. The party behind both says that the governement and parlamental chambers are stalling the implementation of the initiative and do not adhere to its meaning hence the second one (which says they have to do the original one word by word).<p>The stuff happily ignores some principles of the law like proportionality, higher up international law and such.<p>Yeah, the combination of the so called cuddle justice and foreigners has been proven to work very good to get votes here (works even better now with more refugees).