Policing, punishment and comparative penality

Newburn, Tim and Jones, Trevor ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3976-2024 2022. Policing, punishment and comparative penality. British Journal of Criminology 62 (5) , pp. 1196-1212. 10.1093/bjc/azac032

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Abstract

Apparently growing punitiveness in many countries toward the end of the twentieth century prompted considerable criminological activity which focused on attempting to understand trends and contrasts in systems and patterns of punishment. Although to date this literature has tended to treat policing and punishment as being largely separate spheres of activity this paper advances two reasons for paying greater attention to policing in this context. First, and briefly, to reflect the fact that the police are the ‘gatekeepers’ to the penal system, and therefore in some senses inseparable from other penal practices. Second, and more centrally, that in various forms policing both involves, and is often experienced as, punishment. Attempts to understand the nature of and differences between penal states will be enhanced by the inclusion of policing within its ambit.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
ISSN:	0007-0955
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	22 November 2021
Date of Acceptance:	15 October 2021
Last Modified:	24 Jan 2023 14:35
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/145657

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