The Prisoners’ Dilemma Political Economy and Punishment in Contemporary Democracies 1st Edition by Nicola Lacey ISBN 0511415222 9780521899475

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ISBN 10: 0511415222

ISBN 13: 9780521899475 

Author: Nicola Lacey

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.

Table of contents:

Part I. Punishment in Contemporary Democracies

1. Penal Populism in Comparative Perspective

2. Explaining Penal Tolerance and Severity: Criminal Justice in the Perspective of Political Economy

Part II. Prospects for the Future: Escaping the Prisoners’ Dilemma?

3. Inclusion and Exclusion in a Globalizing World: Is Penal Moderation in Co-ordinated Market Economies under Threat?

4. Confronting the Prisoners’ Dilemma: The Room for Policy Manoeuvre in Liberal Market Economies

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