Economics of Punishment

• Main Author: FINDLAY, Mark
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2007
• Subjects: Criminal Law; Law and Society; Punishment; prisons; Criminal Procedure; Public Economics; Social Control, Law, Crime, and Deviance
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/2093; https://search.library.smu.edu.sg/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma99318361702601&context=L&vid=65SMU_INST:SMU_NUI&lang=en&search_scope=INK&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=INK&query=any,contains,Encyclopaedia%20of%20Law%20and%20Society:%20American%20and%20Global%20Perspectives&offset=0
• Institution: Singapore Management University

David Garland has argued that "punishment is a complex set of interlinked processes and institutions rather than a uniform object or event" (1990: 16). In the context of contemporary criminal justice, governmental officials activate these processes and institutions in response to crimes an...