05462oam 2200685I 450 991045409500332120200520144314.01-135-99055-71-281-33162-797866113316271-84392-439-010.4324/9781843924395 (CKB)1000000000724447(EBL)449611(OCoLC)609842498(SSID)ssj0000293016(PQKBManifestationID)11225381(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000293016(PQKBWorkID)10272518(PQKB)10001533(MiAaPQ)EBC449611(Au-PeEL)EBL449611(CaPaEBR)ebr10305960(CaONFJC)MIL133162(OCoLC)822565624(EXLCZ)99100000000072444720180706d2004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCriminal justice and political cultures national and international dimensions of crime control /edited by Tim Newburn and Richard SparksCullompton, Devon, U.K. ;Portland, Or. :Willan Pub.,2004.1 online resource (289 p.)Includes bibliographical references and index.1-84392-054-9 1-84392-026-3 Criminal Justice and Political Cultures National and international dimensions of crime control; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; Chapter 1 Criminal Justice and Political Cultures; Introduction; 'Policy transfer' and 'lesson drawing'; Some problems of comparative criminology; The importance of politics and political culture; Concluding comments; Chapter 2 Durkheim, Tarde and Beyond: The Global Travel of Crime Policies; Travelling institutions; What travels with crime policies?; Conceptualising the movement of crime policies; Actors, mechanisms and principlesFuture roads for crime policiesChapter 3 Globalising Risk? Distinguishing Styles of 'Neoliberal' Criminal Justice in Australia and the USA; Actuarial justice in the USA; Actuarial justice and the politics of exclusion; Actuarial justice in Australia; The war on drugs and harm minimisation; Risk and the politics of inclusion and exclusion; Conclusions; Chapter 4 Policing, Securitisation and Democratisation in Europe; The field of European policing; Cultures of post/national policing: mapping the securitisation of EuropeQuestions of postnational democracy: the future governance of European policingChapter 5 The Cultural Embeddedness of Social Control: Reflections on a Comparison of Italian and North American Cultures concerning Punishment; The embeddedness of crime and punishment; Democracy, the Protestant ethic and punishment; 'Scandal of indulgences' in Rome; Is religious tradition the explanation for the different propensity to punish?; Chapter 6 Controlling Measures: The Repackaging of Common-sense Opposition to Women's Imprisonment in England and Canada; Introduction; The Canadian experienceThe logic of carceral clawbackCommon sense, theory and official discourse; How theoretical critique empowered contemporary official discourse on women's prisons in England; Conclusion; Chapter 7 The Convergence of US and UK Crime Control Policy: Exploring Substance and Process; Introduction; Explaining penal policy convergence; Policy dimensions; The symbol and substance of policy; The process of policy convergence; Conclusion; Chapter 8 Youth Justice: Globalisation and Multi-modal Governance; From welfare to neoliberal governance?; Policy transfers; International conventionsNational cultures and legislative sovereigntyLocal sensibilities and resistances; Conclusion; Chapter 9 Importing Criminological Ideas in a New Democracy: Recent South African Experiences; Introduction; Police and policing; Prisons; The judiciary; Child justice; Conclusion; Chapter 10 Policy Transfer in Local Crime Control: Beyond Naïve Emulation; Introduction; Local politics of crime control; American borrowings: intervening at the local level; Sovereignty, power dependence and governance from below; New Labour: strengthening policy implementation from the centre; Governmental savoirConclusion: reconceptualising the contexts of governmentAs crime increasingly crosses national boundaries, and international co-operation takes firmer shape, so the development of ideas and policy on the control of crime has become an increasingly international and transnational affair. These developments call attention not just to the many points of convergence in the languages and practices of crime control but also to their persistent differences. This book is concerned both with the very specific issue of 'policy transfer' within the crime control arena, and with the issues raised by a more broadly conceptualized idea of comparative pCrime preventionCrimeGovernment policyElectronic books.Crime prevention.CrimeGovernment policy.363.23Newburn Tim865956Sparks Richard1961-877582MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454095003321Criminal justice and political cultures1961757UNINA