Politics, punitiveness, and problematic populations : public perceptions of 'scroungers', 'unruly' children, and 'good for nothings' / Vickie Barrett, Emily Gray, Stephen Farrall.
Barrett, Vickie.; Gray, Emily, 1974-; Farrall, Stephen.
2023
HV4085.A5 B37 2023
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Title Politics, punitiveness, and problematic populations : public perceptions of 'scroungers', 'unruly' children, and 'good for nothings' / Vickie Barrett, Emily Gray, Stephen Farrall.
Author Barrett, Vickie.
ISBN 3031274776 electronic book
9783031274770 (electronic bk.)
3031274768
9783031274763
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27477-0
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer, [2023]
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-27477-0 doi
Call Number HV4085.A5 B37 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification 362.50941
Summary This book speaks to those interested in topics related to punitiveness and public attitudes to crime and punishment. Punitiveness has been the focus of increasing criminological attention in recent decades. This book extends this focus by taking a multi-disciplinary approach to examining punitiveness in the criminal justice system, the welfare system, and the education system in British society today. In doing so, this study uses new survey data (n=5,781) applying ordinal and linear regression and structural equation modelling to examine the relationship between public punitiveness towards rulebreakers and political values. This is explored through assessing punitive attitudes towards the treatment of i) school pupils who break school rules, ii) towards the treatment of benefit recipients who fail to comply with the rules, and iii) towards people who break the law. It examines the relationship between political attitudes (neo-conservative values, neo-liberal values), nostalgic values (social, economic, and political), and public punitive attitudes towards the three rule-breaking groups. This books appeal may extend to an interdisciplinary audience including welfare, education, and social policy disciplines. Vickie Barrett is Lecturer in Criminology in the Department of Behavioural and Social Sciences at the University of Huddersfield, UK. She worked as a teacher and a probation officer before returning to academia to undertake her PhD at the University of Sheffield. Emily Gray is Assistant Professor of Criminology at the University of Warwick in the Sociology Department, UK. She is a mixed methods researcher who specialises in examining long-term trends in relation to crime, politics and society. Stephen Farrall is Professor of Criminology in the School of Sociology & Social Policy at the University of Nottingham, UK. His recent book Respectable Citizens Shady Practices (OUP, 2020) won the Outstanding Book Award from the American Society of Criminologys Division of White-Collar and Corporate Crime.
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Farrall, Stephen.
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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.

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