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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication I -- Dedication II -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Return of the Strong Men -- 2. Penal Populism and Public Protection -- 3. The Rise of Populist Politics -- 4. COVID-19 as an Antidote to Populism -- 5. Fragile Reprieve -- References -- Index.

1. Introduction -- 2. "Never Again" -- 3. Set Risk Free -- 4. The Celebration of Risk -- 5. Fear and Anxiety in the Risk Society -- 6. The Rise of the Security Sanction -- 7. Issues of Legitimacy – Legal and Political -- 8. The Revolt against Uncertainty -- 9. The End.

Following the USA, in many Western countries over the last decade, prisons rates have increased while crime rates have been declined. This key book examines the role played by penal populism on this and other trends in contemporary penal policy.

The author summarizes the main traits of the policy of unification in the English and Welsh sector of higher education. He asks for the benefit the former polytechnics could derive from this process. In the former so-called binary system the polytechnics had cultivated their strength to attract target groups who usually were reserved to enrol into university programs. Yet within the unified university sector which emerged by granting the polytechnics the status of universities this strength has been devaluated. Together with the unification of the sector new methods of financing and quality assessment have been established which favour the traditional universities and enclose the former polytechnics in the lower half of the nation-wide ranking list. The author recommends to the universities of his country to focus on differences of missions instead of competing for money and to start new relations to their environments. (DIPF/Orig.)

Over the course of the last decade or so, it has become increasingly apparent that modern penality is undergoing significant change. One aspect of this refiguring of the penal spectrum involves a growing recourse to what I refer to as emotive and ostentatious punishments of varying kinds - although this must be set against the enhanced continuity at the same time of a long-established trend towards bureaucratic rationalism in this area. The article draws on the theoretical constructs of Norbert Elias to explain this refiguring, arguing that what we can now see taking place in the penal arena is a decivilizing interruption in various localized sites to the broader continuity of the civilizing process.