Risk, responsibility and reconfiguration: Penal adaptation and misadaptation

Punishment and Society

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 419-442

  McNeill, Fergus ^a   Burns, Nicola ^a   Halliday, Simon ^b   Hutton, Neil ^b   Tata, Cyrus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bourdieu; Governmentality; Probation; Risk; Sentencing

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349200821     PISSN: 14624745     EISSN: 17413095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1462474509341153     Document Type: Article

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