Over the last two decades, and in the wake of increases in recorded
crime and other social changes, British criminal justice policy has
become increasingly politicised as an index of governments'
competence. New and worrying developments, such as the inexorable
rise of the US prison population and the rising force of penal
severity, seem unstoppable in the face of popular anxiety about
crime. But is this inevitable? Nicola Lacey argues that harsh
'penal populism' is not the inevitable fate of all contemporary
democracies. Notwithstanding a degree of convergence, globalisation
has left many of the key institutional differences between national
systems intact, and these help to explain the striking differences
in the capacity for penal tolerance in otherwise relatively similar
societies. Only by understanding the institutional preconditions
for a tolerant criminal justice system can we think clearly about
the possible options for reform within particular systems.
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