Hard Lessons: Reflections on Governance and Crime Control in Late Modernity

ISBN-13: 9781138619876 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 206 str.

Gordon Tait

Opis

Originally published in 2004. The essays in this engaging book catalogue a wide and varied range of instances where 'things go wrong' in the practices of criminal justice.

Spis treści

Contents: Modernity and the 'failure' of crime control, Gordon Tait; Governing 'fear of crime', Murray Lee; The control of drugs in New Zealand, Greg Newbold; Korrectional karaoke: new Labour and the zombification of youth justice, John Pitts; Expect the unexpected: DNA, guilt and innocence, Barbara Ann Hocking and Hamish McCallum; Parental restitution: soft target for rough justice, Anthony McMahon; In pursuit of the responsibilized self: boot camps, crime and punishment, Richard Hil; The political resonance of crime control strategies: zero tolerance policing, Chris Cunneen; Good prostitutes and bad prostitutes: some unintended consequences of governmental regulation, Belinda Carpenter; Unintended consequences or deliberate racial hygiene strategies: the question of child removal policies, Judith Bessant; Postscript: which way is up?, John Pitts.

O autorze

Gordon Tait