Rethinking the Punitive Turn: Economies of Excess and the Criminology of the Other

Punishment & Society

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 145-160

  Hallsworth, Simon ^a  

^a LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

criminology of the other; economy of excess; modernity; punitive turn

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993741964     PISSN: 14624745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/14624740022227926     Document Type: Article

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