| Description |
xxiii, 328 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Contents note continued: Auld, Halliday, and the Prospects of Public Education -- Conclusion -- 11.Effecting Penal Climate Change -- Penal Populism and Political Culture -- The Case against Re-Insulation -- ̀Communicative capacity' and state legitimacy -- No participation without public judgment -- Public Engagement -- Public Journalism -- Deliberative Forums -- Six Ways of Institutionalizing Deliberation -- Conclusion |
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Contents note continued: Insulated elite dominance -- Practitioner influence -- Managerialism -- Populism and the public voice -- The Press, the Public, and Political Culture -- New Labour and the ̀red top' press -- The rise of the public voice -- New Labour, Old Testament? -- Conclusion -- 9.Political Culture, Legitimacy, and Penal Populism -- Policy Deliberation and Stability -- By-Products of Political Culture -- Appetites for punishment -- Trust -- Susceptibility to Penal Populism -- Delegates and trustees -- Zero-sum and variable-sum assumptions -- Inclusion and exclusion -- Conclusion -- 10.Public Opinion versus Public Judgment -- Innovations in Public Opinion Assessment -- Effects of Mediated Proxies for Public Opinion -- ̀Evolving standards' and American capital punishment -- Public opinion and the James Bulger and Sarah Payne cases in Britain -- So where are we? -- Coming to Public Judgment -- Frameworks -- ̀Bees in bonnets' -- |
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Contents note continued: Loaded questions -- Simple justice -- Unintended consequences -- The Formation of Political Opinions -- Conclusion -- 7.Contextualizing Tragedy -- The Methodology -- Theoretical underpinnings -- Research protocols -- Overview of the coverage -- Comparing Prominence -- Comparing Claims-Makers -- Comparing the Legitimacy of Elite Experts -- Attitudes to therapy -- The status of the ̀ologists' -- Child-on-Child Killings in Perspective -- Legitimating Claims and the Silent Opposition -- Comparing Frames, Themes, and Angles -- Marking off the discursive terrain -- Begotten, not made: evil and innocence -- Comparing Rhetorical Strategies: Rhetoric and Resonance -- The Suitability of Vehicles -- Conclusion -- 8.English Penal Policy Climates and Political Culture -- The Post-Bulger Case Penal Climate -- The merging of discourses -- The pressure to get tough fast -- Crises of solidarity -- The Evolution of English Penal Policy and Political Culture -- |
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Contents note continued: Young people in custody -- Public Attitudes toward Crime and Punishment -- Public punitiveness -- Fear of crime -- Conclusion -- 4.The Constraints and Effects of Political Culture -- A Conceptual Model -- Structure and Culture -- Sentencing guidelines -- The US Constitution -- ̀Morphogenesis' -- The Constraints of Political Culture -- Constraining choice -- The making of culture -- High-Profile Cases and the ̀Crisis-Reform Thesis' -- Conclusion -- 5.The Constraints of Discourse -- Discourse and ̀Knowledge Utilization' -- Analysing Discourse -- Knowledge and power -- The constraints of ̀interpretive repertoires' -- Discourse and sensibilities -- Six Reasons to Study Discourse -- Conclusion -- 6.Media Constraints and the Formation of Political Opinions -- The Evolution of Political Communication Research -- Agenda-setting -- Impersonal influence -- Claims-Making and the Dangers of Discourse Homogeneity -- Media Frames and Discursive Constraints -- |
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Machine generated contents note: 1.When Children Kill Children -- Introduction -- The James Bulger case -- The Silje Redergard case -- Explaining Difference -- The argument -- English crime and politics -- The Norwegian contrast -- Addressing Penal Populism -- Three Caveats -- Plan of the Book -- 2.Culture, Politics, and the Media in Norway and England -- Cultural and Historical Backdrop -- Child education and well-being -- Social solidarity and the welfare state -- Political Economy and Economic Conditions -- Political Cultures -- Consensus versus majoritarian democracy -- Trust and civil society -- Media Markets and Cultures -- Press markets -- Ownership -- Accountability -- Conclusion -- 3.Crime and Punishment in Norway and England -- Legal Systems -- Crime -- Recorded crime -- Victimization -- Punishment -- Imprisonment rates -- Prison regimes and conditions -- Penalties and sentences -- Sentence lengths -- Youth Justice -- The Nordic diversionary consensus -- |
| Notes |
Originally published: 2008 |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [293]-319. - Includes index |
| Subject |
Juvenile homicide -- England.
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Juvenile homicide -- Norway.
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Juvenile justice, Administration of -- Government policy -- Great Britain.
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Juvenile justice, Administration of -- Government policy -- Norway.
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Juvenile justice, Administration of -- Great Britain -- Public opinion.
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Juvenile justice, Administration of -- Norway -- Public opinion.
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| ISBN |
0199653526 (paperback) |
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9780199653522 (paperback) |
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