What’s neoliberalism got to do with it? Towards a political economy of punishment in Greece

Cheliotis, Leonidas K.; Xenakis, Sappho

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“…The chasm between neoliberalism-in-theory and neoliberalism-in-practice is no accident, Harcourt claims; it is rather part of a political ploy intended to mask both the neoliberal state's own regulatory role in the market and the enormous wealth distributions systematically occurring therein. A similar argument is raised by Soss et al (2011) Cheliotis and Xenakis, 2010). At least as concerns the case of the US, the suitability of neoliberalism as an analytic tool for the purposes of contemporary penology has been further complicated over recent years, including since Donald Trump was elected to the presidency and took office, due to important developments in the economic arena, as well as in politics and penality.…”

Section: Neoliberalism In Practicementioning

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Whither neoliberal penality? The past, present and future of imprisonment in the US

Xenakis

Cheliotis

2018

Punishment & Society

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Debates about the trajectory of prison rates in the US, on one hand, and about the prospects of the neoliberal international order, on the other hand, suggest the time is ripe for a reappraisal of penological scholarship on the relationship between neoliberalism and imprisonment. With the aim of responding to this challenge, this article considers the relevance of the so-called ‘neoliberal penality thesis’ as a framework through which to interpret recent and ongoing developments in US imprisonment. We first set out the core propositions of the thesis and engage with a range of critiques it has attracted regarding the role of crime and government institutions, the evolution and functions of state regulation and welfare provision, and reliance on imprisonment as an indicator of state punitiveness. We then outline the principal arguments that have arisen about the direction of contemporary prison trends in the US, including since Donald Trump was elected to the presidency and took office, and proceed to distil their commonly opaque treatment of the intersections between neoliberalism and imprisonment, also clarifying their respective implications for the neoliberal penality thesis in light of the main critiques levelled previously against it. In so doing, we go beyond the penological field to take into account concerns about the vitality of neoliberalism itself. We conclude that international politico-economic developments have cast considerable doubt over the pertinence of neoliberalism as an organising concept for analysis of emergent penal currents.

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Whither neoliberal penality? The past, present and future of imprisonment in the US

Xenakis

Cheliotis

2018

Punishment & Society

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“…Con ello no pretende afirmarse que las políticas punitivas quedarían eliminadas automáticamente, pero al menos un impulso fundamental de la punitividad, en términos económicos, políticos y culturales, estaría en crisis. Cheliotis y Xenakis llevan razón al señalar que el neoliberalismo no debe ser nuestra única preocupación, argumentando que la obsesión con el neoliberalismo puede ocultar otras causas de las políticas punitivas más locales, y llevarnos a centrar nuestras energías en confrontar al enemigo equivocado (Cheliotis y Xenakis, 2010). No obstante, la atención a los factores locales también puede ocultar algunas de las tendencias generales en curso.…”

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Insistiendo en el neoliberalismo: la permanente influencia del neoliberalismo en la penalidad contemporánea

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2016

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ResumenEl artículo se interroga si el neoliberalismo continúa siendo una explicación útil de las tendencias penales contemporáneas. El texto comienza con una breve definición de neoliberalismo, antes de poner de relieve cómo el paradigma continúa exacerbando las tendencias punitivas, tomando como ejemplo el Reino Unido. Aunque no se sostiene que el neoliberalismo por sí solo pueda explicar esas tendencias punitivas, sino que han de tenerse en cuenta variables locales, continúa siendo un factor importante. Ante todo, es políticamente necesario reconocer el papel que juega el neoliberalismo si queremos salir del actual impasse penal, y articular alternativas verdaderamente nuevas. Abstract This paper seeks to address the question of whether neoliberalism continues to be a useful explanation for contemporary penal trends. It begins by giving a very brief definition of neoliberalism before moving on to a demonstration of the ways in which the paradigm continues to exacerbate punitive trends, taking the example of the UK. Whilst it is not suggested that neoliberalism alone can explain such punitive trends and that local variables must also be taken into account, it is argued that it continues to be an important contributing factor. It is above all politically necessary to recognise the role played by neoliberalism if we wish to escape from the current penal impasse and forge genuinely new alternatives. Palabras clave

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“…This was partly due a decline in the annual rate of releases from prison, but mainly due to a 30.6 percent rise in the caseload of prisoners sentenced to a year or more, with the largest expansion, at a rate of 75.8 percent, recorded for prisoners sentenced to a term of five to twenty years (see Figure 1). Not, then, that the judiciary was more liberal in their use of custodial sentences during the 1980s, but their traditionally punitive mentality manifested itself in the expanding use of long custodial sentences, more so than in the use of custodial sentences as such (see further Cheliotis, 2010;Cheliotis and Xenakis, 2010).…”

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Punishment and political systems: State punitiveness in post-dictatorial Greece

Cheliotis

Xenakis

2016

Punishment & Society

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Extant research on the relationship between political systems and state punitiveness has so far paid little attention to the impact that transition from one political system to another may have upon levels and patterns of state punitiveness. This risks not only exaggerating the degree to which given trends in state punitiveness are distinct to particular political systems, but also overlooking the legacy that punitive policies, practices or experiences under a prior political system may bequeath its successor. With a view to advancing a better understanding of the relationship between political systems and state punitiveness, we draw on the case of Greece, taking a long historical perspective to chart the trajectory of punitive state policies and practices in the country before, during and after its dictatorship of 1967-74.

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What’s neoliberalism got to do with it? Towards a political economy of punishment in Greece

Cited by 20 publications

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Whither neoliberal penality? The past, present and future of imprisonment in the US

Whither neoliberal penality? The past, present and future of imprisonment in the US

Insistiendo en el neoliberalismo: la permanente influencia del neoliberalismo en la penalidad contemporánea

Punishment and political systems: State punitiveness in post-dictatorial Greece

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