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Front Cover 1 Welfare and Punishment 2 Copyright information 3 Dedication 4 Table of contents 6 Acknowledgments 7 Preface 8 1 Thatcherism and its Legacy 10 Introduction 10 Thatcher and the welfare state 11 Defining Thatcherism 14 Thatcherism and penal policy 15 Thatcher’s legacy 17 Conclusion 21 2 Welfare and Punishment in a ‘Stark Utopia’ (1979–2015) 22 Introduction 22 Welfare and penal policy and the end of history 22 Against welfare 27 Conclusion 33 3 Contemporary Narratives of Mass Incarceration 36 Introduction 36 Neoliberalism and mass incarceration 37 Mass incarceration in the US 40 Race and mass incarceration 43 The movement to end mass incarceration 48 Conclusion 50 4 Exploring the Punitive Turn 52 Introduction 52 Crime and punishment 53 Governing through crime 57 The Strangeways Riot 59 The murder of James Bulger 63 Legal issues 63 A moral panic 65 The prison population increase 68 Young offenders post-Bulger 69 Conclusion 70 5 The Third Way in Welfare and Penal Policy 72 Introduction 72 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 tha

Author

Cummins, Ian (University of Salford)

Language

EN