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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Bell, E

Titel

Criminal Justice and Neoliberalism [electronic resource]

Auflage

1st ed. 2011

Ort / Verlag

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• pt. 1. The intensification of punishment -- pt. 2. Explaining punitiveness.
• 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.
• English