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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Pratt, John

Titel

Penal Populism and Public Protection

Ist Teil von

• Populism, Punishment and the Threat to Democratic Order, 2023, Vol.1, p.18-36

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Those Anglo-American democracies that moved furthest down the route of neo-liberal restructuring during the 1980s and beyond set in train divisions, anxieties, and insecurities that populism has since been able to feast on. These tensions brought about or exacerbated by the restructuring created the conditions for the emergence of what has come to be known as penal populism. Governments were prepared to accede to populist demands in relation to crime control, tearing punishment loose from its democratic moorings, while in so doing reaffirming their own political legitimacy. This then allowed them to continue with their restructuring agenda across the rest of the social field.