Of Neo-Liberalism and Comparative Punishment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2369917 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James Q Whitman (Yale Law School, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 217-224 |
| Publication date | 2011-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0896-9205 • E-ISSN: 1569-1632 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0896920510378773 |
| OpenAlex | W2093396180 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 8 |
This contribution to a symposium on Loïc Wacquant's Punishing the Poor endorses Wacquant's claim that the extraordinary increase in American punitiveness over the last 35 years must be seen in the context of market-friendly American neo-liberalism. However, the contribution expresses some doubt about whether American-style neo-liberalism, and American-style punishment, are likely to dominate in countries like France. American punishment practices rest on some distinctive American values, including equality of opportunity, a certain moralism in the understanding of criminal law, and a resistance to deference to expert bureaucratic authority. Because those values are less influential in the law of countries like France, the American punishment revolution is unlikely to be successfully transplanted
Bureaucracy · Criminology · Deference · Liberalism · Morality · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Criminal Law and Evidence · Law · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,23 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2024 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |