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The Politics of Crime, Punishment and Justice explores the impact of right-wing political ideology on crime, the criminal justice system, and attitudes towards punishment in Britain. It is essential reading for criminologists, political philosophers, and social theorists alike.

The Politics of Crime, Punishment and Justice explores the impact of right-wing political ideology on crime, the criminal justice system, and attitudes towards punishment in Britain. It is essential reading for criminologists, political philosophers, and social theorists alike.

This book explores the impact of right-wing political ideology on crime, the criminal justice system, and attitudes towards punishment in Britain. Grounded in a rigorous analysis of repeated cross-sectional surveys such as the British Social Attitudes Survey and the British Crime Survey, as well as individual-level cohort data such as the 1958 National Child Development Study and the 1970 British Cohort Study, it examines changes in long-term crime rates, criminal justice policies, and their integration with social and economic policies in Britain over four decades. It offers a detailed discussion of how radical social and economic changes affected the fear of crime and attitudes to punishment, and how well Thatcherite social and economic values were embedded in contemporary British society. Drawing on a wide literature across criminology, political science, sociology, and social policy, this book demonstrates how a thorough understanding of crime cannot take place without an examination of the wider social policies enacted, the life-courses of the individuals affected, and their communities and the political environment in which they live. It is essential reading for criminologists, sociologists, political philosophers, and social theorists alike since it combines thinking from political sciences, life-courses theories, and detailed analyses of the outcomes of social policy change.

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"This book explores the impact of right-wing political ideology on crime, the criminal justice system, and attitudes towards punishment in Britain. Grounded in a rigorous analysis of repeated cross-sectional surveys such as the British Social Attitudes Survey and the British Crime Survey, as well as individual-level cohort data such as the 1958 National Child Development Study and the 1970 British Cohort Study, it examines changes in long-term crime rates, criminal justice policies and their integration with social and economic policies in Britain over four decades. It offers a detailed discussion of how radical social and economic changes affected the fear of crime and attitudes to punishment, and how well Thatcherite social and economic values were embedded in contemporary British society. Drawing on a wide literature across criminology, political science, sociology, and social policy, this book demonstrates how a thorough understanding of crime cannot take place without an examination of the wider social policies enacted, the life-courses of the individuals affected, their communities and the political environment in which they live. It is essential reading for criminologists, sociologists, political philosophers, and social theorists alike since it combines thinking from political sciences, life-courses theories and detailed analyses of the outcomes of social policy change"--

Chapter 1: What Do We Know About Punitiveness? -- Chapter 2: Exploring Trends in Punitiveness -- Chapter 3: Generational effects of attitudes towards rulebreakers -- Chapter 4: Using cognitive interviewing to explore contemporary attitudes towards 'rulebreakers' -- Chapter 5: A Quantitative Framework -- Chapter 6: The Need to Punish? Punitive attitudes towards Rulebreaking School Pupils -- Chapter 7: Cheating the System? Punitive attitudes towards Rulebreaking Welfare Claimants -- Chapter 7: Cheating the System? Punitive attitudes towards Rulebreaking Welfare Claimants -- Chapter 9: The Relationship between Social and Political Attitudes and Punitiveness -- Chapter 10: Conclusion.

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Authors -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Tracing the Past in the Present: Defining and Operationalising the Concept of Political Legacy -- Introduction -- What Is 'a Legacy'? -- Our Contribution -- Existing Legacy Studies -- The 'Special Case' of Margaret Thatcher's Legacy? -- Developing a Multi-Dimensional Approach to Gauging Political Legacies -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2: Political Generations and the Fear of Crime -- Introduction -- Unpacking Political Generations -- What Do We Know About the Fear of Crime? -- Incorporating Age, Period and Cohort Effects into Our Thinking -- Categorising Political Generations -- Data -- Results -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 3: Housing Law, Household Victimisation and the Spatial Reconfiguration of Property Crime -- Introduction -- The Ideological Background to Changes in Housing Provision After 1980 -- The Institutional and Legal Background -- What Was the Distribution of Council House Sales? -- Defining and Charting Residualisation and Polarisation -- Crime and the RTB: Our Contribution -- Trends in Tenure and Victimisation Over Time -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Rising Punitiveness in the English and Welsh Criminal Justice System -- Introduction -- Thatcherism and the Criminal Justice System -- The Criminal Justice Legislative Programme (1982-1998) -- Operationalising Punitiveness -- The Criminal Justice Act, 1982 -- The Police and Criminal Evidence Act, 1984 -- The Prosecution of Offences Act, 1985 -- The Drug Trafficking Offences Act, 1986 -- The Criminal Justice Act, 1988 -- The Criminal Justice Act, 1991 -- The Criminal Justice Act, 1993 -- The Criminal Justice and Public Order Act, 1994 -- The Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act, 1996 -- The Crime (Sentences) Act, 1997.

Chapter One: Tracing the Past in the Present: Defining and Operationalising the Concept of Political Legacy -- Chapter Two: Political Generations and the Fear of Crime -- Chapter Three: Housing Law, Household Victimisation and the Spatial Reconfiguration of Property Crime -- Chapter Four: Rising Punitiveness in the English & Welsh Criminal Justice System -- Chapter Five: Conclusion.

The fear of crime has been recognized as an important social problem in its own right, with a significant number of citizens in many countries concerned about crime. In this book, the authors critically review the main findings from over 35 years of research into attitudes to crime, highlighting groups who have the greatest concerns.