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Ian Cummins is Senior Lecturer in the School of Health and Society at Salford University.In this enlightening study, Ian Cummins traces changing attitudes to penal and welfare systems.
From Margaret Thatcher’s first cabinet, to austerity politics via New Labour, the book reveals the ideological shifts that have led successive governments to reinforce their penal powers. It shows how ‘tough on crime’ messages have spread to other areas of social policy, fostering the neoliberal political economy, encouraging hostile approaches to the social state and creating stigma for those living in poverty.
This is an important addition to the debate around the complex and interconnected issues of welfare and punishment.
Introduction
Thatcherism and its Legacy
Welfare and Punishment in a ‘Stark Utopia’ (1979– 2015)
Contemporary Narratives of Mass Incarceration
Exploring the Punitive Turn
The Third Way in Welfare and Penal Policy
New Labour, New Realism?
Austerity and the Big Society
Conclusion: Citizenship and the Centaur State
This will be the first single authored book that will assess the complex and intertwined issues of welfare and punishment.
Written by a scholar who is known as an expert in his field with huge levels of experience in professions allied to the issues at hand.
Outlines the development of the penal state and the increase in the use of imprisonment in England and Wales since 1979 with critical insights.
It analyses these developments as part of the creation of a neoliberal political economy.