By Tess Bartlett - Rethinking Crime and Punishment
By Tess Bartlett - Rethinking Crime and Punishment
By Tess Bartlett - Rethinking Crime and Punishment
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ContentsAbstract ................................................................................................................... 2Acknowledgements.................................................................................................. 3Contents................................................................................................................... 5List of Tables <strong>and</strong> Figures........................................................................................ 6Introduction ............................................................................................................. 7What is Penal Populism?...................................................................................... 9Postwar Security <strong>and</strong> Penalwelfarism .............................................................. 11From PenalWelfarism to Penal Populism .......................................................... 13Methodology...................................................................................................... 17Chapter One:The Rise of Penal Populism in New Zeal<strong>and</strong>.......................................................... 20Penal Welfare <strong>and</strong> Postwar Prosperity............................................................... 21Penal Policy in New Zeal<strong>and</strong> from 1954 to 1984................................................ 25The Age of Insecurity......................................................................................... 29Chapter Two:Pressure Groups <strong>and</strong> the Emergence of the Sensible Sentencing Trust.................... 40Victim support groups in New Zeal<strong>and</strong> .............................................................. 41Introducing the Sensible Sentencing Trust: The Pressure Group......................... 44The Sensible Sentencing Trust <strong>and</strong> the Media .................................................... 49Main Techniques of the Sensible Sentencing Trust............................................. 53Chapter Three:Penal Developments in New Zeal<strong>and</strong>: 1999 2006 ................................................ 62The Consolidation of the Sensible Sentencing Trust........................................... 62Public opinion in sentencing .............................................................................. 64Law <strong>and</strong> Order Politics....................................................................................... 65The Growth of the Prison ................................................................................... 76Chapter Four:Resistance to Penal Populism in New Zeal<strong>and</strong> – is it possible?............................... 79New Zeal<strong>and</strong>’s Prison Crisis .............................................................................. 79‘Effective Interventions’ .................................................................................... 82Media Sc<strong>and</strong>al in Penal Policy ........................................................................... 88The Underlying Rhetoric of Law <strong>and</strong> Order ....................................................... 94The 2008 General Election................................................................................. 97Conclusion........................................................................................................... 100Bibliography........................................................................................................ 1065