Criminal Justice Predation and Neoliberal Governance

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ID20060509
AuthorsJoshua Page (0000-0002-7446-1796, Twin Cities Orthopedics), Joe So (0000-0002-1348-8573, Policy Analysis (United States)), Joe Soss
Year2017
Pages138-159
Publication date2017-08-24
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueRethinking Neoliberalism (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781315186238-8
OpenAlexW2904491726
ISBN9781315186238
LanguageEN
Citations received29

In March 2015, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) reported that the city of Ferguson, Missouri had been operating a predatory system of government. This chapter clarifies the origins, operations, and consequences of financial predation in the criminal justice field today. The neoliberal era of governance has been marked by a resurgence and transformation of state predation on poor communities of color. Contract conceptions of the state can be traced back to the European social contract theorists of the early modern period. They supply the liberal-democratic image of the state that frames most mainstream studies of US government today. Neoliberalism refers to the extension of market rationalities across an expanding range of social, economic, and political relations. The financialization of criminal justice practices has grown both wider and deeper over the past twenty-five years, with a burst of onset in the early-to-mid-1990s and a period of rapid expansion during the Great Recession that started in 2007

Biology · Corporate governance · Criminal justice · Criminology · Economic Justice · Economics · Law and economics · Political science · Predation · Sociology · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Law · Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses · Ecology

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