Welfare and Punishment : From Thatcherism to Austerity /

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From Margaret Thatcher's first government to austerity politics, Ian Cummins traces changing attitudes to imprisonment and the social state. With fresh insights and critical thinking, he demonstrates how increasingly punitive approaches to crime and welfare have shaped the neoliberal economy an...

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Autor principal: Cummins, Ian (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2021.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Public welfare > Public opinion.
Imprisonment > Public opinion.
Imprisonment > Great Britain > Public opinion.
Public welfare > Great Britain > Public opinion.
Great Britain.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover
  • Welfare and Punishment
  • Copyright information
  • Dedication
  • Table of contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • 1 Thatcherism and its Legacy
  • Introduction
  • Thatcher and the welfare state
  • Defining Thatcherism
  • Thatcherism and penal policy
  • Thatcher's legacy
  • Conclusion
  • 2 Welfare and Punishment in a 'Stark Utopia' (1979-2015)
  • Introduction
  • Welfare and penal policy and the end of history
  • Against welfare
  • Conclusion
  • 3 Contemporary Narratives of Mass Incarceration
  • Introduction
  • Neoliberalism and mass incarceration
  • Mass incarceration in the US
  • Race and mass incarceration
  • The movement to end mass incarceration
  • Conclusion
  • 4 Exploring the Punitive Turn
  • Introduction
  • Crime and punishment
  • Governing through crime
  • The Strangeways Riot
  • The murder of James Bulger
  • Legal issues
  • A moral panic
  • The prison population increase
  • Young offenders post-Bulger
  • Conclusion
  • 5 The Third Way in Welfare and Penal Policy
  • Introduction
  • This chapter will explore the rise of New Labour, focusing on its approach to welfare and penal policies. New Labour marked a departure from more traditional social democratic policies that previous Labour administrations had adopted. In response to Thatc
  • The state and the Third Way
  • New Labour and penal policy
  • Anti-social behaviour
  • The Stephen Lawrence Inquiry
  • New Labour and welfare
  • New Labour's New Deal
  • Conclusion
  • 6 New Labour, New Realism?
  • Introduction
  • Left Realism
  • New public management, policing and the criminal justice system
  • Dangerous Severe Personality Disorder
  • The Fallon Inquiry
  • The murders of Lin and Megan Russell
  • Reform of the Mental Health Act
  • Imprisonment for Public Protection
  • Joint enterprise
  • The whole-life sentence
  • Serial killing, modernity and the Moors Murders
  • The 2003 Criminal Justice Act
  • Conclusion
  • 7 Austerity and the Big Society
  • Introduction
  • The Big Society
  • National Citizen Service
  • Troubled families
  • The 2011 riots
  • The 1981 versus 2011 riots
  • The hostile environment
  • The Windrush scandal
  • Austerity
  • The impact of austerity
  • The 'bedroom tax' and work capability assessments
  • UN rapporteur: poverty in the UK
  • Welfare reforms
  • Universal Credit
  • Austerity: the impact on people living with disabilities
  • Conclusion
  • 8 Conclusion: Citizenship and the Centaur State
  • Introduction
  • Neoliberalism as market fundamentalism
  • Advanced marginality
  • The centaur state
  • Neoliberalism and citizenship
  • Conclusion: from the war on poverty to the war on the poor
  • References
  • Index
  • Back Cover

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