THE NEW PENOLOGY: NOTES ON THE EMERGING STRATEGY OF CORRECTIONS AND ITS IMPLICATIONS*
1992/11/01 by MALCOLM M. FEELEY, Malcolm M Feeley, Jonathan Simon +1 · 2,412 citations
Psychology · Social Sciences · #Computer science #Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis #Criminal law #Criminology #Focus (optics) #Imprisonment #Law #Penology #Political science #Prison #Process (computing) #Psychology #Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending #Sociology
paper · doi:10.1111/j.1745-9125.1992.tb01112.x
published in Criminology 30(4), 449-474 (Wiley)
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Abstract
The new penology argues that an important new language of penology is emerging. This new language, which has its counterparts in other areas of the law as well, shifts focus away from the traditional concerns of the criminal law and criminology, which have focused on the individual, and redirects it to actuarial consideration of aggregates. This shift has a number of important implications: It facilitates development of a vision or model of a new type of criminal process that embraces increased reliance on imprisonment and that merges concerns for surveillance and custody, that shifts away from a concern with punishing individuals to managing aggregates of dangerous groups, and that affects the training and practice of criminologists.
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