Newburn, Tim; Sparks, Richard

Criminal Justice and Political Cultures : National and International Dimensions of Crime Control

Acknowledgements viii Notes on contributors ix Criminal Justice and Political Cultures 1(15) Tim Newburn Richard Sparks Introduction 1(2) `Policy transfer' and `lesson drawing' 3(4) Some problems of comparative criminology 7(3) The importance of politics and political culture 10(2) Concluding comments 12(4) Durkheim, Tarde and Beyond: The Global Travel of Crime Policies 16(14) Susanne Karstedt Travelling institutions 16(3) What travels with crime policies? 19(3) Conceptualising the movement of crime policies 22(2) Actors, mechanisms and principles 24(3) Future roads for crime policies 27(3) Globalising Risk? Distinguishing Styles of `Neoliberal' Criminal Justice in Australia and the USA 30(19) Pat O'Malley Actuarial justice in the USA 31(1) Actuarial justice and the politics of exclusion 32(5) Actuarial justice in Australia 37(2) The war on drugs and harm minimisation 39(2) Risk and the politics of inclusion and exclusion 41(3) Conclusions 44(5) Policing, Securitisation and Democratisation in Europe 49(31) Ian Loader The field of European policing 49(5) Cultures of post/national policing: mapping the securitisation of Europe 54(10) Questions of postnational democracy: the future governance of European policing 64(16) The Cultural Embeddedness of Social Control: Reflections on a Comparison of Italian and North American Cultures concerning Punishment 80(24) Dario Melossi The embeddedness of crime and punishment 82(2) Democracy, the Protestant ethic and punishment 84(6) `Scandal of indulgences' in Rome 90(1) Is religious tradition the explanation for the different propensity to punish? 91(13) Controlling Measures: The Repackaging of Common-sense Opposition to Women's Imprisonment in England and Canada 104(19) Pat Carlen Introduction 104(2) The Canadian experience 106(2) The logic of carceral clawback 108(1) Common sense, theory and official discourse 109(5) How theoretical critique empowered contemporary official discourse on women's prisons in England 114(6) Conclusion 120(3) The Convergence of US and UK Crime Control Policy: Exploring Substance and Process 123(29) Trevor Jones Tim Newburn Introduction 123(1) Explaining penal policy convergence 124(4) Policy dimensions 128(2) The symbol and substance of policy 130(9) The process of policy convergence 139(5) Conclusion 144(8) Youth Justice: Globalisation and Multi-modal Governance 152 John Muncie