RT Article
T1 Ideologies, Power and the Politics of Punishment: The Case of the British Conservative Party
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 62
IS 5
SP 1158
OP 1174
A1 Guiney, Thomas C.
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1838849521
AB Recent scholarship has underscored the limitations of a theoretical repertoire that reduces the politics of punishment to debates over punitiveness, neoliberalism or penal exceptionalism. In this paper I argue that greater understanding of the dynamic interplay between ideologies and power can provide a richer account of the complex and contradictory landscapes of contemporary penal politics. I seek to show that political parties occupy a prominent position within representative systems of government and this mediating role, at the intersection between ideology and power, is closely associated with the production of penal policy outcomes. Reflecting upon the recent history of the British Conservative Party, I conclude that the politics of punishment is shaped, not only by inter-party competition (and consensus), but the dynamics of intra-party conflict.
K1 Factionalism
K1 Ideology
K1 law & order
K1 Penal Policy
K1 Political Parties
K1 Punishment
DO 10.1093/bjc/azac031