RT Article
T1 Inequality and punishment: the idiosyncrasies of the political economy of punishment
JF Tracing the relationship between inequality, crime, and punishment
SP 22
OP 40
A1 Karstedt, Susanne 1949-
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1879516950
AB Prisons across the globe are manifestations of inequality. In any society, its most marginalised groups are overrepresented in prisons and all institutions of criminal justice. Notwithstanding this universal condition of contemporary criminal justice, the link between social inequality and inequality of punishment has been found to be tenuous and elusive. This contribution addresses the question how socio-economic inequality shapes the manifestations of punishment for a global sample of countries. As socio-economic inequality and criminal punishment are both multi-faceted concepts, several indicators are used for each. The findings confirm the highly contextual nature of the link between inequality and criminal punishment; they suggest a variegated impact of political economies, and a multiplicity of mechanisms that link inequality and criminal punishment across the globe.
SN 9780197266922
K1 Imprisonment rates
K1 Prison conditions
K1 human rights violations
K1 Socio-economic inequality
K1 Political Power
K1 OECD countries
K1 Global regions
K1 Political Economy
K1 Penal Populism
K1 Middle classes
DO 10.5871/bacad/9780197266922.003.0002