Criminal justice and neoliberalism
By: Emma Bell
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780230251977
Subjects: Administration of Criminal justice; Punishment; Liberalism
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction; title: PART I: THE INTENSIFICATION OF PUNISHMENT; title: Lock 'em up!; title: Trojan Horses: The rise of out-of-court justice; title: The New Welfare Sanction; title: Erecting the Boundaries of Exclusion; title: Whither the Punitive Turn?; title: PART II: EXPLAINING PUNITIVENESS; title: Defining Neoliberalism; title: Neoliberal Punishment; title: Constructing the Authoritarian Consensus; title: Conclusion: Towards Penal Dystopia?