Criminal Justice and Neoliberalism
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Criminal Justice and Neoliberalism

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Criminal Justice and Neoliberalism

About this book

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 andargues that it is ultimately neoliberalism which has led to the recent intensification of punishment.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Foreword
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. List of Relevant UK Legislation
  6. Introduction
  7. Part I The Intensification of Punishment
  8. 1 Lock ’em Up!
  9. 2 Trojan Horses: The Rise of Out-of-Court Justice
  10. 3 The New Welfare Sanction
  11. 4 Erecting the Boundaries of Exclusion
  12. 5 Whither the Punitive Turn?
  13. Part II Explaining Punitiveness
  14. 6 Defining Neoliberalism
  15. 7 Neoliberal Punishment
  16. 8 Constructing the Authoritarian Consensus
  17. Conclusion: Towards Penal Dystopia?
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index