Policing, punishment and comparative penality

Bibliographic Data

ID8401031
AuthorsTim Newburn (0000-0001-9237-1703, London School of Economics and Political Science, corresponding author), Trevor Jones (0000-0002-5992-545X, Cardiff University)
Year2022
Volume62
Issue5
Pages1196-1212
Publication date2022-09-16
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe British Journal of Criminology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0007-0955 • E-ISSN: 1464-3529
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/bjc/azac032
OpenAlexW4285265721
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited74

Apparently growing punitiveness in many countries toward the end of the twentieth century prompted considerable criminological activity which focused on attempting to understand trends and contrasts in systems and patterns of punishment. Although to date this literature has tended to treat policing and punishment as being largely separate spheres of activity this paper advances two reasons for paying greater attention to policing in this context. First, and briefly, to reflect the fact that the police are the ‘gatekeepers’ to the penal system, and therefore in some senses inseparable from other penal practices. Second, and more centrally, that in various forms policing both involves, and is often experienced as, punishment. Attempts to understand the nature of and differences between penal states will be enhanced by the inclusion of policing within its ambit

Context (archaeology) · Criminology · Inclusion (mineral) · Political science · Punishment (psychology) · Sociology · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · History · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Policing Practices and Perceptions · Psychology · Social Psychology

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