RT Article
T1 Moving beyond punitivism: Punishment, state failure and democracy at the margins
JF Punishment & society
VO 19
IS 2
SP 203
OP 220
A1 Koch, Insa
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1743098677
AB Recent commentary on the punitive turn has focused on the repressive nature of criminal justice policy. Yet, on a marginalised council estate (social housing project) in England, residents appropriate the state in ways that do not always align with the law. What is more, where the state fails to provide residents with the protection they need, residents mobilise informal violence that is condemned by the state. An ethnographic analysis of personalised uses of criminal justice questions the state-centric assumptions of order that have informed recent narratives of the punitive turn. It also calls for a reassessment of the relationship between democratic politics and criminal justice by drawing attention to popular demands that are not captured by a focus on punishment alone.
K1 Democracy
K1 Ethnography
K1 Inequality
K1 Popular punitivism
K1 Punishment
K1 the state
K1 Violence
K1 United Kingdom
DO 10.1177/1462474516664506