RT Article
T1 Policing, punishment and comparative penality
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 62
IS 5
SP 1196
OP 1212
A1 Newburn, Tim 1959-
A2 Jones, Trevor
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1838849548
AB Apparently growing punitiveness in many countries toward the end of the twentieth century prompted considerable criminological activity which focused on attempting to understand trends and contrasts in systems and patterns of punishment. Although to date this literature has tended to treat policing and punishment as being largely separate spheres of activity this paper advances two reasons for paying greater attention to policing in this context. First, and briefly, to reflect the fact that the police are the ‘gatekeepers’ to the penal system, and therefore in some senses inseparable from other penal practices. Second, and more centrally, that in various forms policing both involves, and is often experienced as, punishment. Attempts to understand the nature of and differences between penal states will be enhanced by the inclusion of policing within its ambit.
K1 Policing
K1 Penal politics
K1 comparative penality
K1 Sociology of punishment
DO 10.1093/bjc/azac032