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Re-Thinking the Political Economy of Punishment

Re-Thinking the Political Economy of Punishment Perspectives on Post-Fordism and Penal Politics - Advances in Criminology

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Publisher's Synopsis

The political economy of punishment suggests that the evolution of punitive systems should be connected to the transformations of capitalist economies: in this respect, each 'mode of production' knows its peculiar 'modes of punishment'. However, global processes of transformation have revolutionized industrial capitalism since the early 1970s, thus configuring a post-Fordist system of production. In this book, the author investigates the emergence of a new flexible labour force in contemporary Western societies. Current penal politics can be seen as part of a broader project to control this labour force, with far-reaching effects on the role of the prison and punitive strategies in general.

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Book information

ISBN: 9780754626107
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Imprint: Routledge
Pub date:
DEWEY: 364.6
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 167
Weight: 408g
Height: 234mm
Width: 156mm
Spine width: 19mm