{"product_id":"confronting-penal-excess-david-hayes-9781509952137","title":"Confronting Penal Excess: Retribution and the Politics of Penal Minimalism","description":"This monograph considers the correlation between the relative success of retributive penal policies in English-speaking liberal democracies since the 1970s, and the practical evidence of increasingly excessive reliance on the penal State in those jurisdictions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt sets out three key arguments. First, that increasingly excessive conditions in England and Wales over the last three decades represent a failure of retributive theory. Second, that the penal minimalist cause cannot do without retributive proportionality, at least in comparison to the limiting principles espoused by rehabilitation, restorative justice and penal abolitionism. Third, that another retributivism is therefore necessary if we are to confront penal excess. The monograph offers a sketch of this new approach, 'late retributivism', as both a theory of punishment and of minimalist political action, within a democratic society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCentrally, criminal punishment is approached as both a political act and a policy choice. Consequently, penal theorists must take account of contemporary political contexts in designing and advocating for their theories. Although this inquiry focuses primarily on England and Wales, its models of retributivism and of academic contribution to democratic penal policy-making are relevant to other jurisdictions, too.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Hayes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1509952136\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781509952137\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/17\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.54d","brand":"David Hayes","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43982656864511,"sku":"9781509952137","price":40.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a2d0c826-9a28-42cf-b728-816a57f4e020.jpg?v=1683262352","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/confronting-penal-excess-david-hayes-9781509952137","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}