David Downes
Biographic Data
| ID | 211518 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Downes |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Downes |
| SIGNATURE | DOWNES D |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0009-0001-4894-1139 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 45 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 176 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The Official History of Criminal Justice in England and Wales: Volume IV: The Politics of Law and Order
This book is Volume IV in the Official History of Criminal Justice in England and Wales. Previous volumes have focused on the moral reforms of the 1960s, the changes to the criminal courts and the introduction of an independent prosecution service, and the broad shifts in penal policy that have taken place in the post-war era. This volume examines the changing politics of law and order, charting the gradual shift toward greater political conflict…
The Official History of Criminal Justice in England and Wales: The Rise and Fall of Penal Hope
Volume III of The Official History of Criminal Justice in England and Wales draws on archival sources and individual accounts to offer a history of penal policymaking in England and Wales between 1959 and 1997. The book studies the changes underlying penal policymaking in the period, from a belief in the rehabilitative potential of imprisonment to a reaffirmation in 1993 that ‘Prison Works’ as a deterrent to crime. A need to curb the rising priso…
Understanding Deviance: A Guide to the Sociology of Crime and Rule-Breaking
Understanding Deviance provides a comprehensive guide to the current state of criminological theory. It outlines the principal theories of crime, deviance, and rule-breaking, discussing them chronologically, and placing them in their European and North American contexts considering major criticisms that have been voiced against them, and constructing defences where appropriate. The volume has been revised and brought up-to-date to include new iss…
The Delinquent Solution (Routledge Revivals): A Study in Subcultural Theory
First published in 1966, The Delinquent Solution presents a study of crime associated with the nature of subcultures. The book discusses issues such as the concept and theory of subcultures, the life of delinquent gangs, and the English experience of delinquent subcultures. It also takes an in-depth look at the Stepney and Poplar survey on crime from 1960, analysing both statistical data and more informal observations. Although the book was writt…
Crime, Social Control and Human Rights: From Moral Panics to States of Denial, Essays in Honour of Stanley Cohen
Crime, Social Control and Human Rights
Understanding Deviance: A Guide to the Sociology of Crime and Rule-Breaking
'Understanding Deviance' provides an indispensable guide to the major themes and theories which have come to form the sociology of crime and deviance, from their origins in the research of the University of Chicago sociology department in the 1920s to the most recent work in cultural criminology
The Eternal Recurrence of Crime and Control: Essays in Honour of Paul Rock
This book features contributions from criminologists from the UK, the US, and Australia, brought together to honour the work of Paul Rock, former Professor of Social Institutions at the London School of Economics. It offers an exploration of the theories which underpin much of current criminological thinking. The resulting thirteen chapters all examine and build upon the central themes associated with Paul Rock's work: social and criminological t…
Counterblast: What Went Right? New Labour and Crime Control
Deviance, Theories of
Deviance” and its companion words, deviant and deviation, have their roots in Latin and point to a straying from the via , road or path. Some of its variants have a long history: the thirteenth‐century Romance of the Rose , for example, talks of “deviant” in the sense of being out of the way; “deviation” appeared in publications in the sixteenth century; and Durkheim powerfully foreshadowed its sociological usage in Les Règles de la méthode socio…
Visions of Penal Control in the Netherlands
Following three decades of prolonged decarceration from 1947 to 1974, Dutch penal policy underwent first a gradual, then a more radical, reversal in a period of sustained recarceration after 1975. David Garland’s (2001) theory of the “culture of control” emergent in late modernity to combat rising crime and insecurity is a necessary but insufficient account of the transition. Additional elements in the invocation of pathology legitimizing the tra…
The Road to Dystopia? Changes in the Penal Climate of the Netherlands
Postwar developments in Dutch penal policy encompass one period of sustained reduction in the scale of imprisonment (1947–74), producing the most humane penal system in Europe, followed by a second (1975 to date) in which that trend reversed, producing an imprisonment rate that exceeds the European average, with adverse consequences for the character of prison regimes. The causes of the initial period are not self‐evident, taking place while crim…
Green States and Social Movements: Environmentalism in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and Norway
Social movements take shape in relation to the kind of state they face, while, over time, states are transformed by the movements they both incorporate and resist. Social movements are central to democracy and democratization. This book examines the interaction between states and environmentalism, emblematic of contemporary social movements. The analysis covers the entire sweep of the modern environmental era that begins in the 1970s, emphasizing…
The British General Election 2001: The centre right consensus
The politics of law and order played only a modest role in the British General Election of 2001. But that role was shaped by a near consensus between New Labour and Conservative agendas for more punitive policies towards persistent offenders and the rediscovery of the criminal rather than the crime as the rationale for sentencing policy. The article explores the background and character of this climax to a decade of realignment
Environmental Transformation of the State: The USA, Norway, Germany and the UK
Modern states underwent two major transformations that produced first, the liberal capitalist state and second, the welfare state. Each was accompanied by the migration of a previously confrontational movement into the core of the state. In the creation of the liberal capitalist state, the bourgeoisie could harmonize with the state's emerging interest in economic growth. In the creation of the welfare state, the organized working class could harm…
The Macho Penal Economy: Mass Incarceration in the United States - A European Perspective
The rise of mass incarceration in the USA is related to the historic character of American exceptionalism and the abandonment, over the past few decades, of policies of rehabilitation and radical social reform. The components for a compararable penal expansion are, with the exception of high rates of lethal violence, in process of assembly in some European societies: rates of serious property crime surpassing those in the USA; a shift in the poli…
The New Zealand Environmental Movement and the Politics of Inclusion
Engagement with the state has rarely been a comfortable association for environmental movement groups. As Dryzek (1996) illustrates, the conditions for the benign inclusion of environmental and other social movement groups are quite complex, usually requiring not just an intersection between movement and state aspirations but also the continued presence of movement groups in civil society as a democratic counterweight to state power. New Zealand'…
Toughing it out: From labour opposition to labour government
Labour's criminal justice policy has remained strikingly consistent in the move from Opposition to Government. That policy was fashioned in the break with key aspects of past Labour policy after Tony Blair's Tough on crime; tough on the causes of crime' statement of 1993. The tensions implicit in this approach flow from the relatively short‐term demands of the first part of the phrase and the longer term requirements of the second part. In the co…
The Emancipation of Prisoners: A Socio-Historical Analysis of the Dutch Prison Experience
The dismal life in prison (1775-1825) death, discipline and depravity in crowded prison factories (1821-1850) socialization by social isolation - experiments with penitentiaries in England and the US barbarian scaffold versus civilized solitude - from external to internal constraint
What the Next Government Should do About Crime
Criminology is well enough stocked with theory and evidence to offer governments important leads on how to address problems of crime and criminal careers more effectively. Three basic assumptions can be made: that informal social controls are more influential in regulating conduct than formal measures; that social, economic and cultural sources of crime are more potent than either genetic or criminal justice variables; and that, following Beccari…
Neo-Corporatism and Environmental Policy
The ecologically sustainable development (ESD) process represented a significant attempt by the Commonwealth Government to involve pro-environment and pro-development protagonists in a major environmental consultative forum. The government's inclusion of peak interest organisations into an exclusive consultation process resembles a neo-corporatist approach to interest intermediation. However, neo-corporatist theory has been applied almost exclusi…
The Future of Criminologies
L'A. presente l'ouvrage de M. Pavarini «The Futures of criminology». Pavarini montre que la recherche dans ce cadre tend a prendre un caractere international et que cette orientation va prendre de plus en plus d'importance. Celui-ci regrette, dans le meme temps, que les specialistes en criminologie paraissent ignorer certaines theories et domaines de recherche. L'A. estime que s'il existe une crise de la criminologie celle-ci est liee a son succe…
The Blackwell Dictionary of Twentieth Century Social Thought
Unravelling Criminal Justice
Crime Control as Industry: Towards Gulags, Western Style
Environmental Transformation of the State: The USA, Norway, Germany and the UK
Modern states underwent two major transformations that produced first, the liberal capitalist state and second, the welfare state. Each was accompanied by the migration of a previously confrontational movement into the core of the state. In the creation of the liberal capitalist state, the bourgeoisie could harmonize with the state's emerging interest in economic growth. In the creation of the welfare state, the organized working class could harm…
Understanding Deviance: A Guide to the Sociology of Crime and Rule-Breaking
'Understanding Deviance' provides an indispensable guide to the major themes and theories which have come to form the sociology of crime and deviance, from their origins in the research of the University of Chicago sociology department in the 1920s to the most recent work in cultural criminology
From Prohibition to Regulation: Bookmaking, Anti-Gambling and the Law
Anti-gambling in late Victorian and Edwardian society the NAGL's campaign against racecourse bookmaking the prohibition of street betting gambling and the NAGL 1906-1919 an alternative to prohibition policing illegal gambling Churchill's betting duty from anti-gambling to compulsive gambling from prohibition to regulation
Neo-Corporatism and Environmental Policy
The ecologically sustainable development (ESD) process represented a significant attempt by the Commonwealth Government to involve pro-environment and pro-development protagonists in a major environmental consultative forum. The government's inclusion of peak interest organisations into an exclusive consultation process resembles a neo-corporatist approach to interest intermediation. However, neo-corporatist theory has been applied almost exclusi…
The Macho Penal Economy: Mass Incarceration in the United States - A European Perspective
The rise of mass incarceration in the USA is related to the historic character of American exceptionalism and the abandonment, over the past few decades, of policies of rehabilitation and radical social reform. The components for a compararable penal expansion are, with the exception of high rates of lethal violence, in process of assembly in some European societies: rates of serious property crime surpassing those in the USA; a shift in the poli…
The New Zealand Environmental Movement and the Politics of Inclusion
Engagement with the state has rarely been a comfortable association for environmental movement groups. As Dryzek (1996) illustrates, the conditions for the benign inclusion of environmental and other social movement groups are quite complex, usually requiring not just an intersection between movement and state aspirations but also the continued presence of movement groups in civil society as a democratic counterweight to state power. New Zealand'…
The British General Election 2001: The centre right consensus
The politics of law and order played only a modest role in the British General Election of 2001. But that role was shaped by a near consensus between New Labour and Conservative agendas for more punitive policies towards persistent offenders and the rediscovery of the criminal rather than the crime as the rationale for sentencing policy. The article explores the background and character of this climax to a decade of realignment
The Road to Dystopia? Changes in the Penal Climate of the Netherlands
Postwar developments in Dutch penal policy encompass one period of sustained reduction in the scale of imprisonment (1947–74), producing the most humane penal system in Europe, followed by a second (1975 to date) in which that trend reversed, producing an imprisonment rate that exceeds the European average, with adverse consequences for the character of prison regimes. The causes of the initial period are not self‐evident, taking place while crim…
The Blackwell Dictionary of Twentieth Century Social Thought
The Emancipation of Prisoners: A Socio-Historical Analysis of the Dutch Prison Experience
The dismal life in prison (1775-1825) death, discipline and depravity in crowded prison factories (1821-1850) socialization by social isolation - experiments with penitentiaries in England and the US barbarian scaffold versus civilized solitude - from external to internal constraint
The Case for Going Dutch: The Lessons of Post‐war Penal Policy
The Sociology of Crime and Social Control in Britain, 1960–1987
Journal Article THE SOCIOLOGY OF CRIME AND SOCIAL CONTROL IN BRITAIN, 1960–1987 Get access DAVID DOWNES DAVID DOWNES Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 28, Issue 2, Spring 1988, Pages 45–577, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.a047727 Published: 01 March 1988
Understanding Deviance: A Guide to the Sociology of Crime and Rule Breaking
This is a non-partisan review of the major sociological theories of crime and deviance. It begins with the work of the Chicago School of the 1920s and proceeds chronologically through the main theoretical positions to reach contemporary work on Left Realism and feminist criminology. The principal aim is to introduce students to ideas in a manner that is clear and accessible but not biased. The strengths and weaknesses of each theory are assessed …
The Origins and Consequences of Dutch Penal Policy Since 1945
DAVID DOWNES, PIA MITCHELL; THE ORIGINS AND CONSEQUENCES OF DUTCH PENAL POLICY SINCE 1945: A Preliminary Analysis, The British Journal of Criminology, Volu
Toughing it out: From labour opposition to labour government
Labour's criminal justice policy has remained strikingly consistent in the move from Opposition to Government. That policy was fashioned in the break with key aspects of past Labour policy after Tony Blair's Tough on crime; tough on the causes of crime' statement of 1993. The tensions implicit in this approach flow from the relatively short‐term demands of the first part of the phrase and the longer term requirements of the second part. In the co…
Contrasts in Tolerance, Post-War Penal Policy in the Netherlands and England and Wales
Promise and Performance in British Criminology
Twelve years ago, in this journal, Terence Morris wrote: 'There is no doubt that of all the specialized branches of inquiry into social behaviour, criminology has grown at a prodigious rate over the last decade.'l In I976, Paul Wiles introduced Volume 2 of the book he first edited with W. G. Carson in I970, by asserting: 'In the time that has elapsed since the first edition of this book appeared, Briiish criminology has undergone a remarkable tra…
Visions of Penal Control in the Netherlands
Following three decades of prolonged decarceration from 1947 to 1974, Dutch penal policy underwent first a gradual, then a more radical, reversal in a period of sustained recarceration after 1975. David Garland’s (2001) theory of the “culture of control” emergent in late modernity to combat rising crime and insecurity is a necessary but insufficient account of the transition. Additional elements in the invocation of pathology legitimizing the tra…
Unravelling Criminal Justice
Contrasts in Tolerance: Post-War Penal Policy in the Netherlands and England and Wales
Social Reaction to Deviance and Its Effects on Crime and Criminal Careers
IThe emergence of the social control perspective in the study of crime and criminal careers has accelerated the movement from a conception of criminology as almost exclusively preoccupied with pathogenetic explanations of crime and delinquency to a sociology of deviance which seeks to locate the study of crime and delinquency in a much broader and more complex perspective concerned with the processes whereby different forms of deviance are define…
Social Reaction to Deviance and Its Effects on Crime and Criminal Careers
IThe emergence of the social control perspective in the study of crime and criminal careers has accelerated the movement from a conception of criminology as almost exclusively preoccupied with pathogenetic explanations of crime and delinquency to a sociology of deviance which seeks to locate the study of crime and delinquency in a much broader and more complex perspective concerned with the processes whereby different forms of deviance are define…
Promise and Performance in British Criminology
Twelve years ago, in this journal, Terence Morris wrote: 'There is no doubt that of all the specialized branches of inquiry into social behaviour, criminology has grown at a prodigious rate over the last decade.'l In I976, Paul Wiles introduced Volume 2 of the book he first edited with W. G. Carson in I970, by asserting: 'In the time that has elapsed since the first edition of this book appeared, Briiish criminology has undergone a remarkable tra…
From Raffles to Heart-Stoppers: The Social Regulation of Gambling
Deviant Interpretations: Problems in Criminological Theory
Deviant Interpretations: Problems in Criminological Theory
Deviant Interpretations: Problems in Criminological Theory
The Origins and Consequences of Dutch Penal Policy Since 1945
DAVID DOWNES, PIA MITCHELL; THE ORIGINS AND CONSEQUENCES OF DUTCH PENAL POLICY SINCE 1945: A Preliminary Analysis, The British Journal of Criminology, Volu
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Understanding Deviance: A Guide to the Sociology of Crime and Rule Breaking
This is a non-partisan review of the major sociological theories of crime and deviance. It begins with the work of the Chicago School of the 1920s and proceeds chronologically through the main theoretical positions to reach contemporary work on Left Realism and feminist criminology. The principal aim is to introduce students to ideas in a manner that is clear and accessible but not biased. The strengths and weaknesses of each theory are assessed …
The Sociology of Crime and Social Control in Britain, 1960–1987
Journal Article THE SOCIOLOGY OF CRIME AND SOCIAL CONTROL IN BRITAIN, 1960–1987 Get access DAVID DOWNES DAVID DOWNES Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 28, Issue 2, Spring 1988, Pages 45–577, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.a047727 Published: 01 March 1988
Crime and the City: Essays in Memory of John Barron Mays
These essays reflect the stress on the local, urban, social world conveyed by John Mays as essential for an understanding of crime and delinquency. It was Mays' work which opened up what has since bec
Contrasts in Tolerance: Post-War Penal Policy in the Netherlands and England and Wales
Contrasts in Tolerance: Post-War Penal Policy in the Netherlands and England and Wales
Response to Herman Franke
Journal Article RESPONSE TO HERMAN FRANKE Get access DAVID DOWNES DAVID DOWNES Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 30, Issue 1, Winter 1990, Pages 94–96, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.a047983 Published: 01 January 1990
Contrasts in Tolerance, Post-War Penal Policy in the Netherlands and England and Wales
Unravelling Criminal Justice: Eleven British Studies
The Case for Going Dutch: The Lessons of Post‐war Penal Policy
Contrasts in Tolerance: Post-war Penal Policy in The Netherlands and England and Wales
David Downes' fascinating comparative analysis takes us a great deal nearer to an understanding of the roots and strength of reductionism in the Netherlands...... powerful and scholarly enquiry New Statesman and Society "Contrasts in Tolerance is expertly crafted and beautifully written. Professor Downes pinpoints the crucial theoretical issues regarding sentencing, imprisonment, and decarceration and uses original and rich data that addresses th…
From Prohibition to Regulation: Bookmaking, Anti-Gambling and the Law
Anti-gambling in late Victorian and Edwardian society the NAGL's campaign against racecourse bookmaking the prohibition of street betting gambling and the NAGL 1906-1919 an alternative to prohibition policing illegal gambling Churchill's betting duty from anti-gambling to compulsive gambling from prohibition to regulation
Beyond Law and Order: Criminal Justice Policies and Politics into the 1990s
Crime Control as Industry: Towards Gulags, Western Style
The Blackwell Dictionary of Twentieth Century Social Thought
Unravelling Criminal Justice
Neo-Corporatism and Environmental Policy
The ecologically sustainable development (ESD) process represented a significant attempt by the Commonwealth Government to involve pro-environment and pro-development protagonists in a major environmental consultative forum. The government's inclusion of peak interest organisations into an exclusive consultation process resembles a neo-corporatist approach to interest intermediation. However, neo-corporatist theory has been applied almost exclusi…
The Future of Criminologies
L'A. presente l'ouvrage de M. Pavarini «The Futures of criminology». Pavarini montre que la recherche dans ce cadre tend a prendre un caractere international et que cette orientation va prendre de plus en plus d'importance. Celui-ci regrette, dans le meme temps, que les specialistes en criminologie paraissent ignorer certaines theories et domaines de recherche. L'A. estime que s'il existe une crise de la criminologie celle-ci est liee a son succe…
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