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    Revisiting Margaret Thatcher’s law and order agenda: The slow-burning fuse of punitiveness.

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    Authors
    Farrall, Stephen
    Burke, Naomi
    Hay, Colin
    Affiliation
    University of Sheffield
    Centre d'études européennes de Sciences Po
    Issue Date
    2015-08-24
    
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    Abstract
    In recent years, criminologists have devoted growing attention to the extent to which ‘punitiveness’ is emerging as a central feature of many criminal justice systems. In gauging punitiveness, these studies typically rely either on attitudinal data derived from surveys that measure individual support for punitive sentences or on the size of the prison population. We take a different approach, exploring the aims, content and outcomes of various Acts of Parliament passed between 1982 and 1998 in England and Wales. Our argument is that while a trend towards punitiveness is detectable, this was, in the case of England and Wales, attributable to wider discourses stemming from the New Right of the 1980s. This in turn promoted a new conception of how best to tackle rising crime. We show that while the year 1993 stands out as a key point in the growing trajectory of punitiveness in England and Wales, the ideas and rhetoric around ‘toughness’ in the criminal justice system can be traced back much further than this. Our article brings these matters to the attention of political scientists and demonstrates how historical institutionalist thinking can guide and inform interdisciplinary work at the interface between political science and criminology.
    Citation
    Farrall, S., Burke, N., and Hay, C. (2016) 'Revisiting Margaret Thatcher’s law and order agenda: The slow-burning fuse of punitiveness', British Politics, 11(2), pp. 205-231.
    Journal
    British Politics
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10545/623450
    DOI
    10.1057/bp.2015.36
    Additional Links
    http://link.springer.com/10.1057/bp.2015.36
    Type
    Article
    Language
    en
    ISSN
    1746-918X
    1746-9198
    ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
    10.1057/bp.2015.36
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