RT Book
T1 Confronting penal excess: retribution and the politics of penal minimalism
A1 Hayes, David
LA English
PP London
PB Bloomsbury Publishing
YR 2019
PP Oxford
PB Hart Publishing
YR 2019
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1681958287
AB "This monograph considers the correlation between the relative success of retributive penal policies in English-speaking liberal democracies since the 1970s, and the practical evidence of increasingly excessive reliance on the penal State in those jurisdictions. It sets out three key arguments. First, that increasingly excessive conditions in England and Wales over the last three decades represent a failure of retributive theory. Second, that the penal minimalist cause cannot do without retributive proportionality, at least in comparison to the limiting principles espoused by rehabilitation, restorative justice and penal abolitionism. Third, that another retributivism is therefore necessary if we are to confront penal excess. The monograph offers a sketch of this new approach, 'late retributivism', as both a theory of punishment and of minimalist political action, within a democratic society. Centrally, criminal punishment is approached as both a political act and a policy choice. Consequently, penal theorists must take account of contemporary political contexts in designing and advocating for their theories. Although this inquiry focuses primarily on England and Wales, its models of retributivism and of academic contribution to democratic penal policy-making are relevant to other jurisdictions, too"--
AB Intro; Acknowledgements; Table Of Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Introduction: The Politics of Penal Minimalism; I. The Pursuit of the Minimal Penal State in an Age of Excess; II. The 'Problem of Punishment'; III. The Structure of this Book; Part I Defining Penal Excess; Chapter One: Penal Excess and Penal Minimalism; I. Conceptual Foundations: Penal Excess, Moderation, and Minimalism; II. Political Foundations: Penal Minimalism as a Public Good; III. Conclusion: Two Spatial Metaphors for Penal Excess; Chapter Two: Penal Excess in England and Wales; I. Mass Punishment: Excesses of Size.
OP 224
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN KD7876
SN 9781509918003
SN 9781509917983
SN 9781509917990
K1 Punishment : Philosophy
K1 Retribution
K1 Punishment : Great Britain
K1 Imprisonment : England
K1 Imprisonment : Wales
K1 Alternatives to imprisonment : England
K1 Alternatives to imprisonment : Wales
K1 Corrections : Wales
K1 Corrections : England
K1 Criminal justice, Administration of : Great Britain
K1 Criminal justice, Administration of : Wales
K1 Criminology: legal aspects
K1 Electronic books
K1 Strafrecht : Rechtsphilosophie : Strafzweck : Vergeltung
DO 10.5040/9781509918003