1st Edition
Hard Lessons Reflections on Governance and Crime Control in Late Modernity
By Gordon Tait
Copyright 2004
214 Pages
by
Routledge
214 Pages
by
Routledge
214 Pages
by
Routledge
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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. The contributions document instances where laws, policies and practices have produced unintended consequences of the most deleterious kind, drawing attention to the prison system, 'boot camps', detention centres and specific... Read more
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.
Biography
Gordon Tait
