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Criminal justice and neoliberalism

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York Palgrave Macmillan 2011Description: xiv,252p. 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780230251977
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 364.601 22 BE-C
LOC classification:
  • HV7419 .B45 2011
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- PART I: THE INTENSIFICATION OF PUNISHMENT -- Lock 'em up! -- Trojan Horses: The rise of out-of-court justice -- The New Welfare Sanction -- Erecting the Boundaries of Exclusion -- Whither the Punitive Turn? -- PART II: EXPLAINING PUNITIVENESS -- Defining Neoliberalism -- Neoliberal Punishment -- Constructing the Authoritarian Consensus -- Conclusion: Towards Penal Dystopia?
Summary: "This book explores the origins of the so-called "punitive turn" in penal policy across Western nations over the past two decades. It demonstrates how the context of neoliberalism has informed penal policy-making and argues that it is ultimately neoliberalism which has led to the recent intensification of punishment"--
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Includes bibliographical references .(p.213-242) and index.

Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- PART I: THE INTENSIFICATION OF PUNISHMENT -- Lock 'em up! -- Trojan Horses: The rise of out-of-court justice -- The New Welfare Sanction -- Erecting the Boundaries of Exclusion -- Whither the Punitive Turn? -- PART II: EXPLAINING PUNITIVENESS -- Defining Neoliberalism -- Neoliberal Punishment -- Constructing the Authoritarian Consensus -- Conclusion: Towards Penal Dystopia?

"This book explores the origins of the so-called "punitive turn" in penal policy across Western nations over the past two decades. It demonstrates how the context of neoliberalism has informed penal policy-making and argues that it is ultimately neoliberalism which has led to the recent intensification of punishment"--

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