基本説明
Exlpores why the management of criminal justice and criminal justice systems has so often reached crisis point.
Full Description
This book is concerned to explore the idea of imaginary penalities and to understand why the management of criminal justice and criminal justice systems has so often reached crisis point. Its underlying theme is that when political strategies of punitive populism are combined with managerialist techniques of social auditing, a new all-encompassing form of governance has emerged - powerless to deliver what it promises but with a momentum of its own and increasingly removed from proper democratic accountability.
A highly distinguished international group of contributors explores this set of themes in a variety of different contexts taken from the UK, N. America, Europe and Australia. It will be essential reading for anybody seeking to understand some of the root causes of increasing prison populations, social harms such as recidivism and domestic violence and the increasingly important role of criminal justice within systems of governance.
Contents
1. Imaginary Penalities and Risk-crazed Governance 2. Imaginable Insecurities: Imagination, Routinisation and the Government of Uncertainty Post 9/11 3. The First Casualty: Evidence and Governance in a War against Crime 4. Inventing Community Safety 5. Telling Sentencing Stories 6. The 'Seemingness' of the 'Seamless Management' of Offenders 7. Pain and Punishment: The Real and the Imaginary in Penal Institutions 8. Imaginary Reform: Changing the Post-colonial Prison 9. The Imaginary Constitution of Wage Labourers 10. Re-imagining Gendered Penalities: The Myth of Gender Responsivity 11. Risking Desistance: Disrespect and Dependency in Custodial and Post-release Contexts 12. 'The Best Seven Years I Could'a Done': The Reconstruction of Imprisonment as Rehabilitation 13. Re-imagining Justice: Principles of Justice for Divided Societies in a Globalized World
