The New Punitiveness Trends, Theories, Perspectives

Throughout much of the western world more and more people are being sent to prison, one of a number of changes inspired by a 'new punitiveness' in penal and political affairs. This book seeks to understand these developments, bringing together leading authorities in the field to provide a wide-ranging analysis of new penal trends, compare the development of differing patterns of punishment across different types of societies, and to provide a range of theoretical analyses and commentaries to help understand their significance. As well as increases in imprisonment this book is also concerned to address a number of other aspects of 'the new punitiveness': firstly, the return of a number of forms of punishment previously thought extinct or inappropriate, such as the return of shaming punishments and chain gangs (in parts of the USA); and secondly, the increasing public involvement in penal affairs and penal development, for example in relation to length of sentences and the California Three Strikes Law, and a growing accreditation of the rights of victims. The book will be essential reading for students seeking to understand trends and theories of punishment on law, criminology, penology and other courses.

1 Introduction, the editors Part 1: Punitive Trends 2. The great leap backward: imprisonment in America from Nixon to Clinton, Loic Wacquant 3. Crime control in western countries, 1970 to 2000, Lyn Hinds 4. Continuity, rupture or just more of the 'volatile and contradictory'?: glimpses of New South Wales' penal practice behind and through the discursive, David Brown 5. Supermax meets death row: legal struggles around the new punitiveness in the USA, Mona Lynch 6. The liberal veil: revisiting Canadian penality, Dawn Moore and Kelly Hannah-Moffat 7. Contemporary statecraft and the 'punitive obsession': a critique of the new penology thesis, Roy Coleman and Joe Sim Part 2: Globalisation, Technology and Surveillance 8. Globalisation and the new punitiveness, Estella Baker and Julian V. Roberts 9. Engaging with punitive attitudes towards crime and punishment: some strategic lessons from England and Wales, Mick Ryan 10. The ad and the form: punitiveness and technological culture, Katjo Franko Aaas 11. Electronic monitoring, satellite tracking and the new punitiveness in England and Wales, Mike Nellis Part 3: Non-Punitive Societies 12. Levels of punitiveness in Scandinavia: description and explanation, Ulla Bondeson 13. Missing the punitive turn? Canadian criminal justice, 'balance' and penal modernism, Jeffrey Meyer and Pat O'Malley 14. When is a society non-punitive? The Italian case, David Nelken Part 4: Explanations 15. Modernity and the punitive, Simon Hallsworth 16. Elias, punishment and civilisation, John Pratt 17. Liberal exclusions and the new punitiveness, Mark Brown 18. Rethinking narratives of penal change in global context, Wayne Morrison

John Pratt is Professor of Criminology, and James Cook Research Fellow in Social Science at the Institute of Criminology, at the Victoria Universityof Wellington. David Brown is Associate Professor in the Asia Research Centre at Murdoch University, Australia. Mark Brown is a Lecturer in the School of Social and Political Sciences, Melbourne University. His primary reserearch interests encompass penality, corrections, and colonial penal history. Simon Hallsworth is Director of the Universities Centre for Social Evaluation Research, and Principal Lecturer in the Department of Applied Social Science at London Metropolitan University. Wayne Morrison works within the Edexcel Foundation External Programme for Law, UK.