Over the last two decades, and in the wake of increases in recorded crime and other social changes, British criminal justice policy has become increasingly politicised as an index of governments' competence. New and worrying developments, such as the inexorable rise of the US prison population and the rising force of penal severity, seem unstoppable in the face of popular anxiety about crime. But is this inevitable? Nicola Lacey argues that harsh 'penal populism' is not the inevitable fate of all contemporary democracies. Notwithstanding a degree of convergence, globalisation has left many of the key institutional differences between national systems intact, and these help to explain the striking differences in the capacity for penal tolerance in otherwise relatively similar societies. Only by understanding the institutional preconditions for a tolerant criminal justice system can we think clearly about the possible options for reform within particular systems.
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"...Overall, the work is powerful. The empirically-based comparison between political economies is effectively presented in a manner that strongly supports her basic propositions...The book is easy to understand and is highly logical. This work will be of use to those interested in cross-cultural comparisons of crime and those who wish to understand the relationship between the political economy and crime..."
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Lacey argues that harsh 'penal populism' is not the inevitable fate of all contemporary democracies. Globalisation has failed to eradicate all the differences between national institutional systems, and it is only through understanding the institutional preconditions for a tolerant criminal justice system that we can think about reforming particular systems.
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harsh justice, penal control, regulating deviance, penal harshness, penal moderation, penal dynamics, penal tolerance, penal populism, guard labour, penal severity, liberal market systems, mass imprisonment, imprisonment rates, liberal market economies, corporatist countries, prison expansion, men commit crimes, criminal justice policy, mass incarceration, regulatory offences, penal power, penal policy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Oxford University Press, Penal Systems, New York, Michael Tonry, John Pratt, Cambridge University Press, New Zealand, Era of Penal, United States, David Garland, European Prisons, African Americans, Securing the Future, World Prison Brief, Comparative Perspective, Rethinking the Political Economy of Punishment, David Downes, University of Chicago Press, Willan Publishing, Congress Joint Economic Committee, The Exclusive Society, Hamlyn Lectures, British Journal of Criminology, Home Office, The Oxford Handbook of Criminology Browse Sample Pages:
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