Criminal justice and neoliberalism

By Emma Bell

Subjects: Criminal justice, administration of, Administration of Criminal justice, Criminal procedure, great britain, Punishment, Liberalism, Sociological jurisprudence

Description: "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"--